Great Pirate Stories: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Great Pirate Stories, credited to Joseph Lewis French, 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 Great Pirate Stories, by Joseph Lewis French. Piracy embodies the romance of the sea at its highest expression. It is a sad but inevitable commentary on our civilization, that, so far as the sea is concerned, it has developed from its infancy down to a century or so ago, under one phase or another of piracy. If men were savages on land they were doubly so at sea, and all the years of maritime adventure--years that added to the map of the world till there was little left to discover--could not wholly eradicate the piratical germ. (Summary from text)

Recording facts

• Recording title: Great Pirate Stories
• Author credits: Joseph Lewis French
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 20
• Listed recording duration: 8:46:48

Catalogue topics

• pirate
• non-fiction

Track guide

1. 00 - Forward — 3:33
2. 01 - The Picaroon — 36:54
3. 02 - The Capture of Panama — 46:01
4. 03 - The Malay Proas — 14:27
5. 04 - The Wonderful Fight of the Exchange of Bristol with the Pirates of Algiers — 52:55
6. 05 - The Daughter of the Great Mogul — 12:24
7. 06 - Barbarossa - King of the Corsairs — 26:33
8. 07 - Morgan at Puerto Bello — 15:59
9. 08 - The Ways of the Buccaneers — 9:39
10. 09 - A True Account of Three Notorious Pirates, Part 1 — 39:29
11. 10 - A True Account of Three Notorious Pirates, Part 2 — 29:43
12. 11 - A true account of three notorious pirates, Part 3 — 38:04
13. 12 - Narrative of the Capture of the Ship Derby — 24:03
14. 13 - Francis Lolonois the Slave Who Became a Pirate King — 40:51
15. 14 - The Fight between the Dorrill and the Moca — 16:02
16. 15 - Jaddi the Malay Pirate — 10:43
17. 16 - The Terrible Ladrones — 40:53
18. 17 - The Female Captive — 30:56
19. 18 - The Passing of Mogul Mackenzie — 25:58
20. 19 - The Last of the Sea-Rovers — 11:55

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