The Log Of A Sea-Waif: Being Recollections Of The First Four Years Of My Sea Life: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The Log Of A Sea-Waif: Being Recollections Of The First Four Years Of My Sea Life, credited to Frank Thomas Bullen, 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 Log Of A Sea-Waif: Being Recollections Of The First Four Years Of My Sea Life by Frank Thomas Bullen. Read in English by David Wales The brilliant author of "The Cruise of the Cachalot" and "Idylls of the Sea" presents in this new work (1899) the continuous story of the actual experiences of his first four years at sea. In graphic and picturesque phrases he has sketched the events of voyages to the West Indies, to Bombay and the Coromandel coast, to Melbourne and Rangoon. Nothing could be of more absorbing interest than this wonderfully vivid account of foks'l humanity and the adventures and strange sights and experiences attendant upon deep-sea voyages. It is easy to see in this book an English companion to our own "Two Years before the Mast." (Publisher's Advertisement) [Bullen (1857 - 1915)] led a roving and adventurous life from quite an early age, and many of the most thrilling episodes in his books were records of his own experiences. After various adventures on shore he went to sea in 1869, and for some years roughed it in various capacities in the merchant service, suffering great hardships, as vividly described in The Log of a Sea Waif and other books. (Royal Geographic Society Obituary, 1915) - Summary by David Wales

Recording facts

• Recording title: The Log Of A Sea-Waif: Being Recollections Of The First Four Years Of My Sea Life
• Author credits: Frank Thomas Bullen
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 30
• Listed recording duration: 10:39:04

Catalogue topics

• adventure
• seafaring
• coming of age
• the sea

Opening tracks: first 24 of 30

1. 00 - Preface — 4:02
2. 01 - My First Ship — 19:19
3. 02 - Outward-Bound — 23:30
4. 03 - Arrival At Demerara — 21:35
5. 04 - The Mutiny And After — 22:16
6. 05 - The Land Of Liberty — 26:14
7. 06 - To Havana And After — 28:44
8. 07 - Off To Sea Again — 34:17
9. 08 - Struggles In Liverpool And London — 11:20
10. 09 - Bound For Jamaica — 27:36
11. 10 - Adventures Of A Shipwrecked Crew — 24:23
12. 11 - An Eventful Passage Home — 28:10
13. 12 - Adrift In Liverpool Once More — 23:33
14. 13 - The Dawn Of Better Days — 20:40
15. 14 - Due South — 19:10
16. 15 - Eight Weeks' Calm — 18:59
17. 16 - Up The Indian Ocean To Bombay — 25:32
18. 17 - On The Coromandel Coast — 11:48
19. 18 - Homeward To London — 20:51
20. 19 - A Change Of Nationality — 18:19
21. 20 - The Passage To Melbourne — 23:05
22. 21 - I Become A Colonial Coaster — 23:35
23. 22 - Prosperity Palls Upon Me — 22:44
24. 23 - Another Queer Ship — 19:16

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