Greatest Wonders of the World: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Greatest Wonders of the World, credited to Esther Singleton, 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 Greatest Wonders of the World by Esther Singleton. Read in English by LibriVox Volunteers A selection of descriptions of famous, and not so famous, natural beauty spots, as described by various travelers of the age. Travelers include William Makepeace Thackeray, Charles Dickens, Sir Richard F. Burton and Alexandre Dumas. - Summary by LynneT

Recording facts

• Recording title: Greatest Wonders of the World
• Author credits: Esther Singleton
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 46
• Listed recording duration: 10:50:49

Catalogue topics

• travel
• Charles Dickens
• Hans Christian Andersen
• Victor Hugo
• john ruskin
• sir walter scott
• Percy Shelley
• Alexander von Humboldt

Opening tracks: first 24 of 46

1. 01 - The Blue Grotto of Capri by Alexandre Dumas — 9:25
2. 02 - Mount Blanc and Chamouni by Percy Bysshe Shelley — 13:58
3. 03 - The Dead Sea by Pierre Loti — 15:40
4. 04 - Mount Vesuvius by Charles Dickens — 32:34
5. 05 - The Falls of the Rhine by Victor Hugo — 11:16
6. 06 - In Arctic and Antarctic Seas I. by Lord Dufferin — 11:24
7. 07 - In Arctic and Antarctic Seas II. by W. G. Burn Murdoch — 4:53
8. 08 - The Desert of Sahara by Eugène Fromentin — 13:53
9. 09 - Fingal’s Cave I. by Sir Walter Scott — 10:19
10. 10 - Fingal’s Cave II. by John Keats — 6:35
11. 11 - In the Himalayas by G. W. Steevens — 14:44
12. 12 - Niagara Falls I. by Anthony Trollope — 13:30
13. 13 - Niagara Falls II. by Charles Dickens. — 5:46
14. 14 - Fuji-San by Sir Edwin Arnold — 15:29
15. 15 - The Cedars of Lebanon by Alphonse de Lamartine — 7:41
16. 16 - The Giant’s Causeway by William Makepeace Thackeray — 18:36
17. 17 - The Great Glacier of the Selkirks by Douglas Sladen — 10:35
18. 18 - Mauna Loa by Lady Brassey — 19:48
19. 19 - Trollhätta by Hans Christian Andersen — 9:20
20. 20 - The Grand Canyon of the Colorado by C. F. Gordon-Cumming — 7:55
21. 21 - The Rock of Gibraltar by Augustus J. C. Hare — 8:09
22. 22 - Thingvalla by Lord Dufferin — 14:14
23. 23 - Land’s End and Logan Rock by John Ayrton Paris — 14:16
24. 24 - Mount Hekla by Sir Richard F. Burton — 18:00

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