The Fearsome Island: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The Fearsome Island, credited to Albert Kinross, 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 Fearsome Island, by Albert Kinross. Read by Ruth Golding. No ordinary sailor's tale, this. Based allegedly on the real experiences of Silas Fordred, Master Mariner of Hythe, this is a story of shipwreck on an uncharted island and his supernatural adventures there with a witch, a hairy man, and various devilish devices and traps. The author, Kinross, adds an appendix purporting to explain the marvels which Fordred encountered. Kinross claims to have stolen the sailor's original account from Hythe Town Hall while helping the Town Clerk to sort newly discovered old papers. This is credible, as it is well-known that there were many such documents rescued from destruction in the late nineteenth century. The names of Fordred and his shipmate Snoad are also old-established Hythe families. However, even if Fordred's account is mentioned in the annals of Hythe Borough, it is impossible to know how much was invented by Kinross. "Believe or doubt!" the author says. Much as I would like to believe, I know which way I incline. (Introduction by Ruth Golding) Details of the source text may be found on the LibriVox catalogue page for this item.

Recording facts

• Recording title: The Fearsome Island
• Author credits: Albert Kinross
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 8
• Listed recording duration: 2:54:59

Catalogue topics

• audio book
• adventure
• fantasy
• supernatural
• magic
• shipwreck
• Hythe
• Diego Rodriguez

Track guide

1. 00 - Preface and Introduction — 6:14
2. 01 - Chapter I — 23:12
3. 02 - Chapter II — 27:02
4. 03 - Chapter III — 28:24
5. 04 - Chapter IV — 37:41
6. 05 - Chapter V — 18:03
7. 06 - Chapter VI — 27:25
8. 07 - Appendix — 7:01

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