Mountain Adventures in the Various Countries of the World: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Mountain Adventures in the Various Countries of the World, credited to John Timbs, 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 Mountain Adventures in the Various Countries of the World by John Timbs. Read in English by Gail Timmerman Vaughan; Deborah Balm; BettyB; Caprifolium; ToddHW; Kathrine Engan; Leni; Phil Schempf; Kristine Bekere; Phoebe Archbell; TriciaG; mparker Mountains have always been fascinating as places of special adventure. This book. first published in 1869, collects true stories of real-life adventurers climbing the world's most famous and most challenging mountains, without modern equipment to support them. Read here about the fate of these adventurers, their successes and failures, challenges and - Summary by Carolin

Recording facts

• Recording title: Mountain Adventures in the Various Countries of the World
• Author credits: John Timbs
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 29
• Listed recording duration: 8:14:53

Catalogue topics

• travel
• adventure
• non-fiction
• mountain
• hiking
• 1869
• climb
• explore

Opening tracks: first 24 of 29

1. 01 - Mont Blanc — 20:00
2. 02 - Mont Blanc — 26:31
3. 03 - The Finsteraarhorn — 30:56
4. 04 - The Peak of Morteratsch — 10:52
5. 05 - The Jungfrau — 39:41
6. 06 - The Galenstock — 19:35
7. 07 - The Matterhorn — 19:41
8. 08 - The Pic du Midi of the Pyrenees — 7:12
9. 09 - The Breche de Roland — 18:07
10. 10 - Mont Perdu — 27:29
11. 11 - North Cape — 15:26
12. 12 - The Brocken — 14:38
13. 13 - Parnassus — 14:24
14. 14 - Mount Athos — 6:45
15. 15 - Mount Elburz in the Caucasus — 9:16
16. 16 - The Taurus Mountains of Cilicia — 17:32
17. 17 - Mount Lebanon — 21:06
18. 18 - Mount Ararat — 12:14
19. 19 - Mount Sinai — 15:20
20. 20 - Gungootree, the Sacred Source of the Ganges — 14:45
21. 21 - Adam's Peak, Ceylon — 12:29
22. 22 - Ascent of the Gunung-Talang, Sumatra — 7:39
23. 23 - Peter Botte, Mauritius — 18:29
24. 24 - The Peak of Teneriffe — 15:12

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