The Blockade Runners: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide
The Blockade Runners by Jules Verne: the LibriVox audiobook summary, 10 original MP3 tracks, 2:02:45 running time and a link to listen.
The Blockade Runners, credited to Jules Verne, 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 The Blockade Runners, by Jules Verne. Translated by Mrs. Arthur Bell. Read by Mark F. Smith. Writing at the end of the American Civil War, Verne weaves this story of a Scottish merchant who, in desperation at the interruption of the flow of Southern cotton due to the Union blockade, determines to build his own fast ship and run guns to the Confederates in exchange for the cotton piling up unsold on their wharves. His simple plan becomes complicated by two passengers who board his new ship under false pretenses in order to carry out a rescue mission, one which Capt. Playfair adopts as his own cause. This is going make the Rebels in Charleston rather unhappy with him. Sure, his new ship is fast - but can it escape the cannonballs of both North and South? (Summary by Mark Smith)
Recording facts
- Recording title: The Blockade Runners
- Author credits: Jules Verne
- Language: English
- Original MP3 tracks: 10
- Listed recording duration: 2:02:45
Catalogue topics
- civil war
- cotton
- blockade
- rescue
- sea
- north
- south
Track guide
- 01 - The Dolphin — 12:23
- 02 - Getting Under Sail — 12:27
- 03 - Things Are Not What They Seem — 13:45
- 04 Crockston's Trick — 15:10
- 05 The Shot From the Iroquois, and Miss Jenny's Arguments — 13:08
- 06 Sullivan Island Channel — 10:58
- 07 A Southern General — 10:27
- 08 The Escape — 16:57
- 09 Between Two Fires — 14:16
- 10 St. Mungo — 3:18
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