Isobel: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Isobel, credited to James Oliver Curwood, 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 Isobel, by James Oliver Curwood. Read by Roger Melin Action, intrigue, and a touch of romance in the farthest reaches of northern Canada. Sergeant Billy MacVeigh of the Canadian Northwest Mounted, with his only partner Pelliter are the only official representatives in the lonely and desolate reaches of Point Fullerton, hundreds of miles from the next nearest outpost, and from any civilization. Both are nearing the end of their service in those regions, and their main function has been to try to find the elusive murderer Scottie Deane, and if they happen upon anybody trading in Eskimo women to haul them in also. Then one day, one of those traders happens to show up at their cabin, and what follows is some close calls and long trips across the barrens of northern Canada that uncovers clues to the whereabouts of the notorious Scottie Deane and his wife, and all deal with near death experiences primarily due to loneliness, bitter cold, and fatigue, not to mention the red death. Will they find Deane and his wife? If so, what affect will he have on them and their respective conditions? (Summary by Roger Melin)

Recording facts

• Recording title: Isobel
• Author credits: James Oliver Curwood
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 23
• Listed recording duration: 6:50:23

Catalogue topics

• fiction
• Canada
• Far North
• Mounties

Track guide

1. 01 - The Most Terrible Thing in the World — 19:27
2. 02 - Billy Meets the Woman — 11:38
3. 03 - In Honor of the Living — 24:08
4. 04 - The Man-Hunters — 23:50
5. 05 - Billy Follows Isobel — 20:40
6. 06 - The Fight — 18:20
7. 07 - The Madness of Pelliter — 20:00
8. 08 - Little Mystery — 17:03
9. 09 - The Secret of the Dead — 18:32
10. 10 - In Defiance of the Law — 20:59
11. 11 - The Night of Peril — 12:15
12. 12 - Little Mystery Finds Her Own — 23:09
13. 13 - The Two Gods — 16:16
14. 14 - The Snow-Man — 7:20
15. 15 - Le Mort Rouge - and Isobel — 19:05
16. 16 - The Law - Murderer of Men — 21:19
17. 17 - Isobel Faces the Abyss — 16:40
18. 18 - The Fulfillment of a Promise — 21:30
19. 19 - A Pilgrimage to the Barren — 15:51
20. 20 - The Letter — 10:54
21. 21 - The Fighting Spark — 11:17
22. 22 - Into the South — 22:22
23. 23 - At the End of the Trail — 17:54

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