The Innocents Abroad: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The Innocents Abroad, credited to Mark Twain, 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 Innocents Abroad by Mark Twain. Writer/entertainer Garrison Keillor (A Prairie Home Companion) on "The Innocents Abroad": "...one of the best selling travel books of all time." (The Writer's Almanac, June 8, 2012) When you dive into Mark Twain’s (Samuel Clemens’) The Innocents Abroad, you have to be ready to learn more about the unadorned, ungilded reality of 19th century “touring” than you might think you want to learn. This is a tough, literary journey. It was tough for Twain and his fellow “pilgrims”, both religious and otherwise. They set out, on a June day in 1867, to visit major tourist sites in Europe and the near east, including Greece, Turkey, Lebanon, Syria, “the Holy Land”, and Egypt. What Twain records, in often humorous, sometimes grotesque but always fascinating detail, are the day-to-day ups and downs of discovering the truth about people and places. The truths they learn are often far different than their education and rumor have made them preconceive. This is a voyage of discovery. It’s long and, in places, tiresome. But it’s revelatory about so much. As with some of his other works, Twain includes popular prejudices of his time, which are today considered socially unacceptable. His references to “Indians”, “Negroes” and “infidels” come to mind. Beyond the lows, though, there are the highs of Twain’s cutting whit and insight as he guides us along the bumpy and often dangerous voyage. No need to buckle up. Just take it slow, and steady…like the journey itself. Summary by John Greenman Read by John Greenman. For more free audiobooks, or to become a volunteer reader, please visit librivox.org.

Recording facts

• Recording title: The Innocents Abroad
• Author credits: Mark Twain
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 48
• Listed recording duration: 19:36:22

Opening tracks: first 24 of 48

1. The Innocents Abroad, Chapter 01 — 18:23
2. The Innocents Abroad, Chapters 02-03 — 17:03
3. The Innocents Abroad, Chapters 04-05 — 29:54
4. The Innocents Abroad, Chapters 06-07 — 38:52
5. The Innocents Abroad, Chapters 08-09 — 24:28
6. The Innocents Abroad, Chapters 10-11 — 26:35
7. The Innocents Abroad, Chapters 12-13 — 43:08
8. The Innocents Abroad, Chapters 14-15 — 40:28
9. The Innocents Abroad, Chapters 16-17 — 30:52
10. The Innocents Abroad, Chapters 18-19 — 47:14
11. The Innocents Abroad, Chapters 20-21 — 30:27
12. The Innocents Abroad, Chapter 22 — 22:22
13. The Innocents Abroad, Chapter 23 — 27:20
14. The Innocents Abroad, Chapter 24 — 19:49
15. The Innocents Abroad, Chapter 25 — 19:48
16. The Innocents Abroad, Chapter 26 — 39:06
17. The Innocents Abroad, Chapter 27 — 25:41
18. The Innocents Abroad, Chapter 28 — 19:03
19. The Innocents Abroad, Chapters 29-30 — 32:31
20. The Innocents Abroad, Chapter 31 — 18:43
21. The Innocents Abroad, Chapter 32 — 29:20
22. The Innocents Abroad, Chapter 33 — 23:27
23. The Innocents Abroad, Chapter 34 — 27:23
24. The Innocents Abroad, Chapter 35 — 11:17

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