First and Last: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

First and Last, credited to Hilaire Belloc, 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 "First and Last" by Hilaire Belloc, read by Ray Clare, proofed and produced by Karen Merline. “When a man weighs anchor in a little ship or a large one he does a jolly thing! He cuts himself off and he starts for freedom and for the chance of things. He pulls the jib a-weather, he leans to her slowly pulling round, he sees the wind getting into the mainsail, and he feels that she feels the helm. He has her on a slant of the wind, and he makes out between the harbour piers.” (quotation from Hilaire Belloc)

Recording facts

• Recording title: First and Last
• Author credits: Hilaire Belloc
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 41
• Listed recording duration: 7:27:20

Catalogue topics

• audio books
• essays

Opening tracks: first 24 of 41

1. Chapter 01 — 6:28
2. Chapter 02 — 8:17
3. Chapter 03 — 10:55
4. Chapter 04 — 12:25
5. Chapter 05 — 13:04
6. Chapter 06 — 10:56
7. Chapter 07 — 10:59
8. Chapter 08 — 8:17
9. Chapter 09 — 11:57
10. Chapter 10 — 18:45
11. Chapter 11 — 11:47
12. Chapter 12 — 8:59
13. Chapter 13 — 8:01
14. Chapter 14 — 12:53
15. Chapter 15 — 8:52
16. Chapter 16 — 13:33
17. Chapter 17 — 22:44
18. Chapter 18 — 9:20
19. Chapter 19 — 9:55
20. Chapter 20 — 11:19
21. Chapter 21 — 11:02
22. Chapter 22 — 9:45
23. Chapter 23 — 12:27
24. Chapter 24 — 9:22

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