Eight Hundred Leagues on the Amazon: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Eight Hundred Leagues on the Amazon, 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 Eight Hundred Leagues on the Amazon. Read by Librivox volunteers First published in 1881, Eight Hundred Leagues on the Amazon is an adventure novel in two parts by Jules Verne, having a basis in codes and cryptography. Unlike many of his other stories, it is not a work of science fiction. Rather, it describes a voyage down the Amazon River on a large raft, or jangada). Many aspects of the raft, scenery, and journey are described in detail. Summary by not.a.moose, Adapted from wikipedia.

Recording facts

• Recording title: Eight Hundred Leagues on the Amazon
• Author credits: Jules Verne
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 40
• Listed recording duration: 10:15:12

Catalogue topics

• adventure
• amazon

Opening tracks: first 24 of 40

1. 1-01 - A Captain of the Woods — 18:02
2. 1-02 - Robber and Robbed — 21:22
3. 1-03 - The Garral Family — 20:08
4. 1-04 - Hesitation — 15:51
5. 1-05 - The Amazon — 14:29
6. 1-06 - A Forest on the Ground — 11:56
7. 1-07 - Following a Liana — 28:55
8. 1-08 - The Jangada — 16:27
9. 1-09 - The Evening of the 5th of June — 15:59
10. 1-10 - From Iquitos to Pevas — 18:53
11. 1-11 - From Pevas to the Frontier — 22:32
12. 1-12 - Fragoso at Work — 16:10
13. 1-13 - Torres — 10:18
14. 1-14 - Still Descending — 13:26
15. 1-15 - The Continued Descent — 16:04
16. 1-16 - Ega — 17:52
17. 1-17 - An Attack — 16:41
18. 1-18 - The Arrival Dinner — 14:14
19. 1-19 - Ancient History — 10:36
20. 1-20 - Between the Two Men — 20:12
21. 2-01 - Manaos — 8:24
22. 2-02 - The First Moments — 13:24
23. 2-03 - Retrospective — 13:41
24. 2-04 - Moral Proofs — 14:08

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