Jim Davis: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Jim Davis, credited to John Masefield, 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 Jim Davis by John Masefield. Read in English by Josh Mitteldorf The tale of a 12-year-old boy who falls in with smugglers. Jim, an orphan, is sent to live with relatives along the Devon coast. There he accidentally witnesses the deeds of a troop of night-riders, or smugglers, and becomes caught up in their shadowy, dangerous world of excise men, sea caves and illicit cargo. The adventure takes the boy to sea against his will, where he faces hurdle after hurdle. From a skirmish with a British frigate to a nightmarish chase on horseback to run-ins with soldiers and gypsies, the plot stays rip-roaring, and the atmospheric prose supplies a polished, literary veneer. Ages 9-12. - Summary by Michael Morpurgo, Josh Mitteldorf

Recording facts

• Recording title: Jim Davis
• Author credits: John Masefield
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 20
• Listed recording duration: 4:51:53

Catalogue topics

• adventure
• pirates
• sea
• smugglers
• boy

Track guide

1. 01 - My First Journey — 9:15
2. 02 - Night Riders — 13:37
3. 03 - The Man on the Mound — 21:22
4. 04 - The Last Voyage of the 'Snail' — 23:14
5. 05 - Hut in the Gorse-bushes — 17:33
6. 06 - The Owl's Cry — 12:14
7. 07 - The Two Coastguards — 11:47
8. 08 - The Cave in the Cliff — 15:00
9. 09 - Signing On — 13:27
10. 10 - Aboard the Lugger — 10:59
11. 11 - The Frigate Laocoon — 12:37
12. 12 - Black Pool Bay — 15:22
13. 13 - In the Valley — 14:36
14. 14 - A Traitor — 12:38
15. 15 - The Battle on the Shore — 17:09
16. 16 - Drifting — 14:54
17. 17 - The Blue Boar — 15:04
18. 18 - Tracked — 12:16
19. 19 - The Road to London — 12:33
20. 20 The Gipsy Camp — 16:16

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