The Golden Book of the Dutch Navigators: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The Golden Book of the Dutch Navigators, credited to Hendrik van Loon, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

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LibriVox recording of The Golden Book of the Dutch Navigators by Hendrik van Loon. Read in English by Larry Wilson; Jane Bennett; Piotr Nater; Foon This is a story of magnificent failures. The men who equipped the expeditions of which I shall tell you the story died in the poorhouse. The men who took part in these voyages sacrificed their lives as cheerfully as they lighted a new pipe or opened a fresh bottle. Some of them were drowned, and some of them died of thirst. A few were frozen to death, and many were killed by the heat of the scorching sun. But what of it? It was all in the day's work. These excellent fellows took whatever came, be it good or bad, or indifferent, with perfect grace, and kept on smiling. They kept their powder dry, did whatever their hands found to do, and left the rest to the care of that mysterious Providence who probably knew more about the ultimate good of things than they did. - Summary by From the preface

Recording facts

• Recording title: The Golden Book of the Dutch Navigators
• Author credits: Hendrik van Loon
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 16
• Listed recording duration: 5:31:07

Catalogue topics

• travel
• exploration
• shipwreck
• dutch travelers

Track guide

1. 00 - Dedication, Historical introduction — 7:57
2. 01 - Chapter I. Jan Huygen van Linschoten. Part I — 21:11
3. 02 - Chapter I. Jan Huygen van Linschoten. Part II — 22:15
4. 03 - Chapter II. The Northeast Passage. Part I — 25:06
5. 04 - Chapter II. The Northeast Passage. Part II — 21:09
6. 05 - Chapter III. The Tragedy of Spitzbergen — 8:58
7. 06 - Chapter IV. The First Voyage to India - Failure — 40:27
8. 07 - Chapter V. The Second Voyage to India - Success — 23:25
9. 08 - Chapter VI. Van Noort Circumnavigates the World. Part I — 21:35
10. 09 - Chapter VI. Van Noort Circumnavigates the World. Part II — 19:04
11. 10 - Chapter VII. The Attack Upon the West Coast of America. Part I — 20:44
12. 11 - Chapter VII. The Attack Upon the West Coast of America. Part II — 20:02
13. 12 - Chapter VIII. The Bad Luck of Captain Bontekoe — 26:58
14. 13 - Chapter IX. Schouten and Le Maire Discover a New Strait — 22:04
15. 14 - Chapter X. Tasman Explores Australia — 20:04
16. 15 - Chapter XI. Roggeveen, the Last of the Great Voyagers — 10:08

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