Sailing Alone Around the World: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Sailing Alone Around the World, credited to Joshua Slocum, 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 Sailing Alone Around the World, by Joshua Slocum. Read by Alan Chant. Joshua Slocum was the first man to sail around the world alone in a small boat. He personally rebuilt an 11.2 metre sloop-rigged fishing boat that he named the Spray. On April 24, 1895, he set sail from Boston, Massachusetts. More than three years later, he returned to Newport, Rhode Island, on June 27, 1898 having circumnavigated the world, a distance of 46,000 miles (74,000 km). In 1899 he described the voyage in Sailing Alone Around the World now considered a classic of travel literature. It is a wonderful adventure story from the Age of Sail and a book of which Arthur Ransome declared, “boys who do not like this book ought to be drowned at once.” (Summary by Alan Chant and Wikipedia)

Recording facts

• Recording title: Sailing Alone Around the World
• Author credits: Joshua Slocum
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 22
• Listed recording duration: 7:52:21

Catalogue topics

• adventure
• sailing
• sea
• nautical

Track guide

1. Chapter 01 — 16:08
2. Chapter 02 — 19:39
3. Chapter 03 — 21:46
4. Chapter 04 — 21:42
5. Chapter 05 — 28:22
6. Chapter 06 — 22:15
7. Chapter 07 — 25:27
8. Chapter 08 — 19:15
9. Chapter 09 — 24:13
10. Chapter 10 — 19:53
11. Chapter 11 — 19:11
12. Chapter 12 — 20:52
13. Chapter 13 — 23:41
14. Chapter 14 — 24:23
15. Chapter 15 — 28:50
16. Chapter 16 — 28:59
17. Chapter 17 — 23:00
18. Chapter 18 — 17:35
19. Chapter 19 — 20:57
20. Chapter 20 — 15:45
21. Chapter 21 — 15:08
22. Chapter 22 - Appendix — 15:38

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