Tales of the Fish Patrol: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Tales of the Fish Patrol, credited to Jack London, 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 Tales of the Fish Patrol by Jack London. Read in English by Don W. Jenkins Wildest among the fisher-folk may be accounted the Chinese shrimp-catchers. It is the habit of the shrimp to crawl along the bottom in vast armies till it reaches fresh water, when it turns about and crawls back again to the salt. And where the tide ebbs and flows, the Chinese sink great bag-nets to the bottom, with gaping mouths, into which the shrimp crawls and from which it is transferred to the boiling-pot. This in itself would not be bad, were it not for the small mesh of the nets, so small that the tiniest fishes, little new-hatched things not a quarter of an inch long, cannot pass through. The beautiful beaches of Points Pedro and Pablo, where are the shrimp-catchers villages, are made fearful by the stench from myriads of decaying fish, and against this wasteful destruction it has ever been the duty of the fish patrol to act.These stories are set in the waterways around San Francisco Bay and involve the fish patrol with a variety of characters of different ethnicity and cultural backgrounds. ( Description from the opening of "White and Yellow" by Jack London, with addition by Don W. Jenkins)

Recording facts

• Recording title: Tales of the Fish Patrol
• Author credits: Jack London
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 7
• Listed recording duration: 2:56:05

Catalogue topics

• fishermen
• jack london
• san francisco bay
• ethnic conflict

Track guide

1. 01 - White and Yellow — 23:04
2. 02 - The King of the Greeks — 24:11
3. 03 - A Raid on the Oyster Pirates — 23:50
4. 04 - The Siege of the Lancashire Queen — 26:10
5. 05 - Charley's Coup — 26:21
6. 06 - Demetrios Contos — 25:30
7. 07 - Yellow Handkerchief — 26:59

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