Jacob Faithful: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide
Jacob Faithful by Frederick Marryat: the LibriVox audiobook summary, 46 original MP3 tracks, 17:23:35 running time and a link to listen.
Jacob Faithful, credited to Frederick Marryat, 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 Jacob Faithful by Frederick Marryat. Read in English by NoelBadrian. Rebelling against the career chosen for him by his wealthy family, Frederic Marryat joined the Royal Navy in 1806 at the age of 14. He first served as a midshipman in the 38-gun frigate "HMS Imperieuse" commanded by Lord Cochran, 10th Earl of Dundonald whose real life exploits were used by Marryat in his fiction and which formed the basis for other famous fictional characters like Horatio Hornblower and Jack Aubrey. Having survived more than 50 sea battles and attained the rank of Post Captain, he resigned from the Navy and devoted the rest of his life to writing, drawing a good deal on his distinguished career in the Navy and is now considered the Father of Modern Nautical Fiction. He is also noted as the inventor of an effective lifeboat and a widely used system of communicating at sea by the use of flags. Jacob Faithful is a tale centred on the lives of the Thames watermen who made their living along the tidal reaches of that river and in the Port of London. Particularly it deals with the story of young Jacob literally born and raised on the river. He is orphaned in bizarre circumstances, gets an education, is apprenticed to a bargeman and then to a wherryman before being "pressed" into the Royal Navy. The book gives an interesting insight into the life of London and it's great river at the beginning of the 19th Century. (Summary by Noel Badrian)
Recording facts
- Recording title: Jacob Faithful
- Author credits: Frederick Marryat
- Language: English
- Original MP3 tracks: 46
- Listed recording duration: 17:23:35
Catalogue topics
- fiction
- orphans
- London
- 19th century
- river thames
- seafaring life
Opening tracks: first 24 of 46
- 01 - Chapter 1 — 25:26
- 02 - Chapter 2 — 25:49
- 03 - Chapter 3 — 16:50
- 04 - Chapter 4 — 23:11
- 05 - Chapter 5 — 29:26
- 06 - Chapter 6 — 25:34
- 07 - Chapter 7 — 20:18
- 08 - Chapter 8 — 20:45
- 09 - Chapter 9 — 22:38
- 10 - Chapter 10 — 26:21
- 11 - Chapter 11 — 17:47
- 12 - Chapter 12 — 18:21
- 13 - Chapter 13 — 18:11
- 14 - Chapter 14 — 18:40
- 15 - Chapter 15 — 20:04
- 16 - Chapter 16 — 18:34
- 17 - Chapter 17 — 26:34
- 18 - Chapter 18 — 26:36
- 19 - Chapter 19 — 24:31
- 20 - Chapter 20 — 22:28
- 21 - Chapter 21 — 31:54
- 22 - Chapter 22 — 19:36
- 23 - Chapter 23 — 21:36
- 24 - Chapter 24 — 22:44
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