The Last Secrets: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The Last Secrets, credited to John Buchan, 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 Last Secrets by John Buchan. Read in English by Steven Seitel The author, John Buchan, maintains that "the main lines of the earth's architecture have been determined" during the first two decades of the twentieth century, and all that remains is but "amplifying our knowledge of the groyning and buttresses and stone-work." In this history of exploration, he tells of nine of those momentous final discoveries that placed the earth's last big secrets firmly on the map, from the mysterious "cloud city" of Lhasa, to the slopes--but not yet the summit--of Mount Everest. - Summary by Steven Seitel

Recording facts

• Recording title: The Last Secrets
• Author credits: John Buchan
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 13
• Listed recording duration: 6:29:39

Catalogue topics

• exploration
• discovery

Track guide

1. 00 Dedication and Preface — 6:47
2. 01 Lhasa — 38:57
3. 02 The Gorges of the Brahmaputra — 16:28
4. 03 The North Pole, Part 1 — 39:51
5. 04 The North Pole, Part 2 — 21:06
6. 05 The Mountains of the Moon — 30:43
7. 06 The South Pole, Part 1 — 35:47
8. 07 The South Pole, Part 2 — 33:04
9. 08 Mount McKinley — 41:22
10. 09 The Holy Cities of Islam — 37:31
11. 10 The Exploration of New Guinea — 29:01
12. 11 Mount Everest, Part 1 — 29:25
13. 12 Mount Everest, Part 2 — 29:37

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