The Cruise of the Snark: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The Cruise of the Snark, 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 The Cruise of the Snark, by Jack London. The Cruise of the Snark (1913) is a memoir of Jack and Charmian London's 1907-1909 voyage across the Pacific. His descriptions of "surf-riding", which he dubbed a "royal sport", helped introduce it to and popularize it with the mainland. London writes: Through the white crest of a breaker suddenly appears a dark figure, erect, a man-fish or a sea-god, on the very forward face of the crest where the top falls over and down, driving in toward shore, buried to his loins in smoking spray, caught up by the sea and flung landward, bodily, a quarter of a mile. It is a Kanaka on a surf-board. And I know that when I have finished these lines I shall be out in that riot of colour and pounding surf, trying to bit those breakers even as he, and failing as he never failed, but living life as the best of us may live it. (Excerpted from Wikipedia)

Recording facts

• Recording title: The Cruise of the Snark
• Author credits: Jack London
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 18
• Listed recording duration: 8:05:39

Catalogue topics

• memoir
• Pacific
• island

Track guide

1. 01 - Foreword — 22:24
2. 02 - The Inconceivable And Monstrous — 31:32
3. 03 - Adventure — 17:25
4. 04 - Finding One's Way About — 23:13
5. 05 - The First Landfall — 15:12
6. 06 - A Royal Sport — 24:20
7. 07 - The Lepers Of Molokai — 30:43
8. 08 - The House Of The Sun — 29:06
9. 09 - A Pacific Traverse — 35:50
10. 10 - Typee — 30:52
11. 11 - The Nature Man — 27:49
12. 12 - The High Seat of Abundance — 38:29
13. 13 - The Stone-fishing of Bora Bora — 15:16
14. 14 - The Amateur Navigator — 40:05
15. 15 - Cruising in the Solomons — 38:45
16. 16 - Beche de Mer English — 15:39
17. 17 - The Amateur M.D. — 39:03
18. 18 - Backword — 10:05

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