Dutch Courage and Other Stories: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Dutch Courage and Other Stories, credited to Jack London, 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 Dutch Courage and Other Stories by Jack London. Read in English by Don W. Jenkins. Jack London was quoted as saying, "I've never written a line that I'd be ashamed for my young daughters to read, and I never shall write such a line!" After his death in 1916, his wife Charmian assembled a collection of stories, most of which he had written for young readers, but at least one of which was for more mature readers, "Whose Business is to Live." Like most of London's work, his short stories could be read by young readers and then again when they were older with mature minds. These stories draw from London's own extensive experience in the world and demonstrate the dictum that "good writing is good writing" no matter for whom it was written. - Summary by Don W. Jenkins

Recording facts

• Recording title: Dutch Courage and Other Stories
• Author credits: Jack London
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 11
• Listed recording duration: 3:18:58

Catalogue topics

• nature
• travel
• adventure
• nautical
• animals
• Japan
• seafaring
• marine

Track guide

1. 01 - Preface — 8:53
2. 02 - Dutch Courage — 21:03
3. 03 - Typhoon off the Coast of Japan — 12:14
4. 04 - The Lost Poacher — 21:23
5. 05 - The Banks of the Sacramento — 20:21
6. 06 - Chris Farrington, Able Seaman — 17:11
7. 07 - To Repel Boarders — 13:14
8. 08 - An Adventure in the Upper Sea — 12:23
9. 09 - Bald Face — 7:46
10. 10 - In Yeddo Bay — 16:51
11. 11 - Whose Business is to Live — 47:40

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