Stories of North Pole Adventure: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Stories of North Pole Adventure, credited to Frank Mundell, 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 Stories of North Pole Adventure by Frank Mundell. Read in English by Steve C This volume does not pretend to be a history of Artic exploration. My aim has been to narrate some of the most thrilling incidents of Polar adventure in such a manner that the reader may feel something of the fascination which induces explorers, in spite of reverses and disasters, to attempt again and again to penetrate the vast region of snow and silence and solitude around the North Pole. Great care has been taken to ensure accuracy; and, wherever possible, the actual journals of the various expeditions have been consulted, besides a host of minor publications. (Preface by Frank Mundell). * * * Stories of North Pole Adventure, was one in a series of inspirational texts and ‘heroic writings’ by the Victorian author Frank Mundell and published by The Sunday School Union. Frank Mundell wrote a significant number of books for children (both boys and girls) and many of these were distributed and presented to them through their Sunday schools. - Summary by Steve C

Recording facts

• Recording title: Stories of North Pole Adventure
• Author credits: Frank Mundell
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 16
• Listed recording duration: 4:01:07

Catalogue topics

• exploration
• adventure
• north pole
• children's books
• sea voyage
• northwest passage
• sunday school
• artic exploration

Track guide

1. 00 - Preface & Epigraph — 2:19
2. 01 - The North Pole — 7:13
3. 02 - First Attempts to Reach The North Pole — 12:04
4. 03 - The First Royal Artic Expeditions — 14:50
5. 04 - Two Famous Voyages — 19:30
6. 05 - The First Winter in the Artic Regions — 13:16
7. 06 - The Knight Errant of the Northern Seas — 18:48
8. 07 - The Champion of the North — 22:24
9. 08 - The Discovery of the Magnetic Pole — 12:37
10. 09 - The Search for Franklin — 12:20
11. 10 - The Fate of Franklin — 21:32
12. 11 - American Expeditions — 13:29
13. 12 - The Great Expedition of 1875 — 18:05
14. 13 - The Voyage of the 'Jeanette' — 21:43
15. 14 - The Farthest North — 14:58
16. 15 - Still Farther North — 15:59

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