Dick Sands the Boy Captain: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Dick Sands the Boy Captain, credited to Jules Verne, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

Librivox recording of Dick Sands the Boy Captain by Jules Verne, translated by Ellen E Frewer. Read by Alex C. Telander Dick Sands, a youth of fifteen, must assume command of a ship after the disappearance of its captain. Nature’s forces combined with evil doings of men lead him and his companions to many dangerous adventures on sea and in Central Africa. (Summary by Kikisaulite)

Recording facts

• Recording title: Dick Sands the Boy Captain
• Author credits: Jules Verne
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 38
• Listed recording duration: 8:37:10

Catalogue topics

• adventure

Opening tracks: first 24 of 38

1. 01 - Part the First, Chapter 1 The Pilgrim — 15:52
2. 02 - Part the First, Chapter 2 The Apprentice — 10:28
3. 03 - Part the First, Chapter 3 A Rescue — 11:33
4. 04 - Part the First, Chapter 4 The Survivors of the Waldeck — 8:45
5. 05 - Part the First, Chapter 5 Dingos Sagacity — 17:17
6. 06 - Part the First, Chapter 6 A Whale in Sight — 13:34
7. 07 - Part the First, Chapter 7 Preparations For an Attack — 10:11
8. 08 - Part the First, Chapter 8 A Catastrophe — 13:41
9. 09 - Part the First, Chapter 9 Dick's Promotion — 10:09
10. 10 - Part the First, Chapter 10 The New Crew — 15:44
11. 11 - Part the First, Chapter 11 Rough Weather — 15:51
12. 12 - Part the First, Chapter 12 Hope Revived — 14:08
13. 13 - Part the First, Chapter 13 Land at Last — 16:11
14. 14 - Part the First, Chapter 14 Ashore — 16:47
15. 15 - Part the First, Chapter 15 A Stranger — 16:34
16. 16 - Part the First, Chapter 16 Through the Forest — 16:21
17. 17 - Part the First, Chapter 17 Misgivings — 14:56
18. 18 - Part the First, Chapter 18 A Terrible Discovery — 12:38
19. 19 - Part the Second, Chapter 1 The Dark Continent — 18:11
20. 20 - Part the Second, Chapter 2 Accomplices — 13:07
21. 21 - Part the Second, Chapter 3 On the March Again — 15:09
22. 22 - Part the Second, Chapter 4 Rough Travelling — 13:59
23. 23 - Part the Second, Chapter 5 White Ants — 13:30
24. 24 - Part the Second, Chapter 6 A Diving-Bell — 14:18

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