The Goddess of Atvatabar: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The Goddess of Atvatabar, credited to William Richard Bradshaw, 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 Goddess of Atvatabar by William Richard Bradshaw. Read in English by Nigel Fisher An accident during a polar expedition leads the crew of the Polar King to the discovery of an entire world within the earth. Within the interior realm lies a vast ocean with continents and civilisations unknown to the outside world. The societies within possess new technologies and magics unknown to the outside world and these are lovingly described in great detail by the author. The crew proceed to explore and in true Victorian fashion then conquer the new world. An extraordinary feat of imagination and inventiveness by this obscure author. - Summary by Nigel Fisher

Recording facts

• Recording title: The Goddess of Atvatabar
• Author credits: William Richard Bradshaw
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 60
• Listed recording duration: 8:56:19

Catalogue topics

• fiction
• science fiction
• sf
• victorian
• hollow world
• science fantasy

Opening tracks: first 24 of 60

1. 00 - Introduction — 11:46
2. 01 - A Polar Catastrophe — 9:04
3. 02 - The Cause of the Expedition — 7:16
4. 03 - Beginning the Voyage — 9:23
5. 04 - Our Adventures in the Polar Sea — 6:03
6. 05 - We Enter the Polar Gulf — 5:34
7. 06 - Day Becomes Night and Night Day — 8:47
8. 07 - We Discover the Interior World — 8:03
9. 08 - Extraordinary Loss of Weight — 9:26
10. 09 - Afloat on the Interior Ocean — 5:30
11. 10 - A Visit from the Inhabitants of Plutusia — 6:11
12. 11 - We Learn Atvatabarese — 7:52
13. 12 - We Arrive at Kioram — 7:49
14. 13 - Marching in Triumph — 10:30
15. 14 - The Journey to Calnogor — 7:10
16. 15 - Our Reception by the King — 7:57
17. 16 - The King Unfolds the Grandeur of Atvatabar — 5:53
18. 17 - Gnaphisthasia — 13:26
19. 18 - The Journey to the Bormidophia — 6:58
20. 19 - The Throne of the Gods, Calnogor — 6:07
21. 20 - The Worship of Lyone, Supreme Goddess — 10:24
22. 21 - An Audience with the Supreme Goddess — 6:56
23. 22 - The Goddess Learns the Story of the Outer World — 6:39
24. 23 - The Garden of Tanje — 16:21

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