The Frozen Pirate (version 2): Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The Frozen Pirate (version 2), credited to William Clark Russell, 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 Frozen Pirate (version 2) by William Clark Russell. Read in English by Marilyn Rakes; mbm0rxi; jenno; Matthew Tink; Steve C; M. E. Allen; Angela Jefferies; Hopeforce1; Aidan Mayne; Sophia Gannaoui; Lynne T; KHand; Pmiddy Drawing on his own experience as a merchant seaman, Russell gives us the fictionalized narrative of one Paul Rodney who found an icebound vessel in the South Atlantic, while captaining a pirate ship. Russell has been hailed as the pre-eminent English writer of his ilk, compared to such American writers as Melville and Dana. - Summary by Lynne Thompson

Recording facts

• Recording title: The Frozen Pirate (version 2)
• Author credits: William Clark Russell
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 32
• Listed recording duration: 11:19:55

Catalogue topics

• pirates
• treasure
• merchant ship
• south atlantic
• icebound

Opening tracks: first 24 of 32

1. 01 - The Storm — 12:11
2. 02 - The Iceberg — 18:21
3. 03 - I Lose My Companions — 12:39
4. 04 - I Quit the Wreck — 14:09
5. 05 - I Sight a White Coast — 17:30
6. 06 - An Island of Ice — 22:36
7. 07 - I am Startled by a Discovery — 18:13
8. 08 - The Frozen Schooner — 18:23
9. 09 - I Lose my Boat — 20:20
10. 10 - Another Startling Discovery — 20:09
11. 11 - I Make further Discoveries — 17:33
12. 12 - A Lonely Night — 22:10
13. 13 - I Explore the Hold and the Forecastle — 23:57
14. 14 - An Extraordinary Occurrence — 24:17
15. 15 - The Pirate's Story — 37:04
16. 16 - I Hear of a Great Treasure — 23:57
17. 17 - The Treasure — 24:09
18. 18 - We Talk Over our Situation — 16:27
19. 19 - We Take a View of the Ice — 16:55
20. 20 - A Merry Evening — 33:48
21. 21 - We Explore the Mines — 22:45
22. 22 - A Change Comes Over the Frenchman — 23:42
23. 23 - The Ice Breaks Away — 29:16
24. 24 - The Frenchman Dies — 22:50

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