The Dark Frigate: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide
The Dark Frigate by Charles Boardman Hawes: the LibriVox audiobook summary, 24 original MP3 tracks, 7:23:46 running time and a link to listen.
The Dark Frigate, credited to Charles Boardman Hawes, 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 Dark Frigate by Charles Boardman Hawes. Read in English by Kathrine Engan The frigate Rose of Devon rescues from a wreck in mid-ocean twelve men who show their gratitude by seizing the Rose, killing her captain and sailing toward the Caribbean where they hope to plunder Spanish towns and galleons. Mistaking an English man-of-war for a merchantman, they are captured and brought back to England for trial. Only one, an English lad, Philip Marsham, a member of the original crew of the Rose, is acquitted; and he, after adventures in the forces of King Charles, tires of Cromwell's England and sails for Barbados once more on the Rose of Devon. The Dark Frigate has long been a favorite story for boys and in 1924 was awarded the John Newbery Medal, given annually "for the most distinguished contribution to American literature for children." When The Dark Frigate was first published F. F. Van deWater in The New York Tribune said: "No one, we think, has written so perfect a pirate tale since Treasure Island." (from the dustjacket of the first edition)
Recording facts
- Recording title: The Dark Frigate
- Author credits: Charles Boardman Hawes
- Language: English
- Original MP3 tracks: 24
- Listed recording duration: 7:23:46
Catalogue topics
- england
- pirate
- piracy
- mutiny
- sailing
- buccaneer
Track guide
- 01 - Chapter 1: Flight — 15:38
- 02 - Chapter 2: A Leal Man and a Fool — 26:48
- 03 - Chapter 3: Two Sailors on Foot — 15:36
- 04 - Chapter 4: The Girl at the Inn — 17:56
- 05 - Chapter 5: Sir John Bristol — 21:05
- 06 - Chapter 6: The Rose of Devon — 31:59
- 07 - Chapter 7: The Ship's Liar — 13:26
- 08 - Chapter 8: Storm — 19:07
- 09 - Chapter 9: The Master's Guest — 12:06
- 10 - Chapter 10: Between Midnight and Morning — 11:18
- 11 - Chapter 11: Head Winds and a Rough Sea — 20:44
- 12 - Chapter 12: The Porcupine Ketch — 32:38
- 13 - Chapter 13: A Bird to be Limed — 12:10
- 14 - Chapter 14: A Wonderful Excellent Cook — 26:19
- 15 - Chapter 15: A Lonesome Little Town — 24:50
- 16 - Chapter 16: The Harbour of Refuge — 20:08
- 17 - Chapter 17: Will Canty — 18:00
- 18 - Chapter 18: Tom Jordan's Mercy — 11:48
- 19 - Chapter 19: A Man Seen Before — 19:11
- 20 - Chapter 20: A Prize for the Taking — 13:03
- 21 - Chapter 21: Ill Words Come True — 29:12
- 22 - Chapter 22: Back to the Inn — 11:24
- 23 - Chapter 23: And Old Sir John — 8:57
- 24 - Chapter 24: And Again the Rose of Devon — 10:21
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