My Airships: The Story of My Life: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

My Airships: The Story of My Life, credited to Alberto Santos-Dumont, 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 My Airships: The Story of My Life by Alberto Santos-Dumont Read in English by Scott Danneker The delightful tale of "le petit Santos" as he dances through the sky above the City of Light at the dawn of the aerial age. A note to the listener: Throughout this story the author makes several references to helpful figures and illustrations. These may be found upon the corresponding pages in the Project Gutenberg e-book. (Summary by Scott Danneker)

Recording facts

• Recording title: My Airships: The Story of My Life
• Author credits: Alberto Santos-Dumont
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 26
• Listed recording duration: 6:08:58

Catalogue topics

• paris
• airships
• aeronautics
• dirigibles

Opening tracks: first 24 of 26

1. 00 - Introductory Fable: The Reasoning of Children — 13:07
2. 01 - The Coffee Plantation — 17:05
3. 02 - Paris - Professional Balloonists - Automobiles — 11:43
4. 03 - My First Balloon Ascent — 15:16
5. 04 - My 'Brazil' — 11:58
6. 05 - The Real and Imaginary Dangers of Ballooning — 17:21
7. 06 - I Yield to the Steerable Balloon Idea — 18:07
8. 07 - My First Air-Ship Cruises — 9:57
9. 08 - How it Feels to Navigate the Air — 16:27
10. 09 - Explosive Engines and Inflammable Gases — 16:26
11. 10 - I Go in for Airship Building — 14:15
12. 11 - The Exposition Summer — 15:24
13. 12 - The Deutsch Prize and its Problems — 11:11
14. 13 - A Fall Before a Rise — 17:18
15. 14 - The Building of My 'No. 6' — 9:34
16. 15 - Wining the Deutsche Prize — 10:52
17. 16 - A Glance Backward and Forward — 9:38
18. 17 - Monaco and the Maritime Guide Rope — 17:49
19. 18 - Flights in Mediterranean Winds — 15:10
20. 19 - Speed — 20:03
21. 20 - An Accident and its Lessons — 9:41
22. 21 - The First of the World's Air-Ship Stations — 16:35
23. 22 - My 'No. 9,' the Little Runabout — 19:07
24. 23 - The Air-Ship in War — 18:21

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