Java Head: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Java Head, credited to Joseph Hergesheimer, 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 Java Head by Joseph Hergesheimer. Read in English by Margaret Espaillat Java Head is a novel of the American merchant marine at the beginning of the great clipper ship era. It is laid in Salem, when that city was still a port rich with the traffic of the East Indies; a story of choleric ship masters, charming girls, and an aristocratic Manchu woman in carmine and jades and crusted gold. There is a drama as secret and poisonous as opium, lovely old gardens with lilac trees and green lattices, and elm-shaded streets ending at the harbor with the brigs unloading ivory from Africa and the ships crowding on their topsails for Canton. It is a romantic novel-and yet true-rather than a study of drab manners; there is no purpose in it other than the pleasure to be found in the spectacle of life supported by high courage and made beautiful by women in peacock shawls. (From the back cover of the 1919 edition)

Recording facts

• Recording title: Java Head
• Author credits: Joseph Hergesheimer
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 11
• Listed recording duration: 7:51:46

Catalogue topics

• New England
• miscegenation
• shipping

Track guide

1. 01 - Chapter 1 — 47:25
2. 02 - Chapter 2 — 45:27
3. 03 - Chapter 3 — 33:09
4. 04 - Chapter 4 — 46:57
5. 05 - Chapter 5 — 47:55
6. 06 - Chapter 6 — 41:14
7. 07 - Chapter 7, Part 1 — 34:10
8. 08 - Chapter 7, Part 2 — 30:09
9. 09 - Chapter 8 — 58:45
10. 10 - Chapter 9 — 52:56
11. 11 - Chapter 10 — 33:39

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