Mardi Vol. 1: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Mardi Vol. 1, credited to Herman Melville, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

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The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

LibriVox recording of Mardi Vol. 1 by Herman Melville. Read in English by Ecological Humanist and Gail Timmerman Vaughan. "Not long ago, having published two narratives of voyages in the Pacific, which, in many quarters, were received with incredulity, the thought occurred to me, of indeed writing a romance of Polynesian adventure, and publishing it as such; to see whether, the fiction might not, possibly, be received for a verity: in some degree the reverse of my previous experience...This thought was the germ of others, which have resulted in Mardi" (Herman Melville, Preface).

Recording facts

• Recording title: Mardi Vol. 1
• Author credits: Herman Melville
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 105
• Listed recording duration: 10:46:58

Opening tracks: first 24 of 105

1. 000 Preface — 1:14
2. 001 Foot in Stirrup — 30:43
3. 002 A Calm — 4:36
4. 003 A King for a Comrade — 12:39
5. 004 A Chat in the Clouds — 6:09
6. 005 Seats secured and Portmanteaus packed — 5:55
7. 006 Eight Bells — 4:41
8. 007 A Pause — 2:38
9. 008 They push off, Velis et Remis — 6:32
10. 009 The Watery World is all before Them — 5:04
11. 010 They arrange their Canopies and Lounges, and try to make Things comfortable — 5:09
12. 011 Jarl afflicted with the Lockjaw — 3:30
13. 012 More about being in an open Boat — 2:52
14. 013 Of the Chondropterygii, and other uncouth Hordes infesting the South Seas — 10:52
15. 014 Jarl's Misgivings — 6:08
16. 015 A Stitch in Time saves Nine — 2:55
17. 016 They are Becalmed — 6:20
18. 017 In high Spirits they push on for the Terra Incognita — 3:17
19. 018 My Lord Shark and his Pages — 5:00
20. 019 Who goes there? — 13:20
21. 020 Noises and Portents — 6:02
22. 021 Man ho! — 4:47
23. 022 What befel the Brigantine at the Pearl Shell Islands — 13:16
24. 023 Sailing from the Island they pillage the Cabin — 5:31

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