Raleigh: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Raleigh, credited to Edmund Gosse, 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 Raleigh by Edmund Gosse. Read in English by LibriVox volunteers. Sir Walter Raleigh's plan in 1584 for colonization in the "Colony and Dominion of Virginia" (which included the present-day states of North Carolina and Virginia) in North America ended in failure at Roanoke Island, but paved the way for subsequent colonies. The state capital of North Carolina was named in 1792 for Sir Walter Raleigh, sponsor of the Colony of Roanoke. Gosse’s biography was the first attempt to portray his personal career apart from the general history of his time. At the time of original publication Edmund Gosse was Clark Lecturer in English Literature at Trinity College, Cambridge. (Introduction by Wikipedia and Eugene Smith.)

Recording facts

• Recording title: Raleigh
• Author credits: Edmund Gosse
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 13
• Listed recording duration: 7:43:18

Catalogue topics

• exploration
• America
• biography
• england
• colony
• guiana

Track guide

1. 00 - Preface — 3:55
2. 01 - I: Youth — 32:06
3. 02 - II: At Court — 51:26
4. 03 - III: In Disgrace — 46:44
5. 04 - IV: Guiana — 40:16
6. 05 - V: Cadiz — 42:59
7. 06 - VI: Last Days of Elizabeth — 48:22
8. 07 - VII: The Trial at Winchester, Part 1 — 32:59
9. 08 - VII: The Trial at Winchester, Part 2 — 36:27
10. 09 - VIII: In the Tower, Part 1 — 31:41
11. 10 - VIII: In the Tower, Part 2 — 33:01
12. 11 - IX: The Second Voyage to Guiana — 27:58
13. 12 - X: The End — 35:24

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