The Mutiny of the Elsinore: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide
The Mutiny of the Elsinore by Jack London: the LibriVox audiobook summary, 50 original MP3 tracks, 12:29:39 running time and a link to listen.
The Mutiny of the Elsinore, credited to Jack London, 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 Mutiny of the Elsinore, by Jack London. Read by Tom Crawford. This is the story of a voyage of a sailing ship from Baltimore to Seattle, east-to-west around Cape Horn in the winter. It is set in 1913 and the glory days of “wooden ships and iron men” are long over. The Elsinore is a four-masted iron sailing vessel carrying a cargo of 5000 tons of coal. She has a “bughouse” crew of misfits and incompetents. This book was published in 1915 and some actions of some of the characters seem odd to us today. There is romance, but it is strangely platonic. Two important characters disappear with no real explanation. The disparity between the officers on the one hand and the fo’c’sle on the other is striking (literally). Some people will be offended by the bigotry. The “men against the sea” descriptions -and the weather descriptions- are among Jack London’s finest. In my opinion he is right up there with Joseph Conrad and Joshua Slocum in this effort. We also have a mutiny, complete with shootings and deliberate starvation. My personal favorite is chapter 38. (Introduction by Tom Crawford) Note: The chapter titles were assigned by the reader. London gave only numbers.
Recording facts
- Recording title: The Mutiny of the Elsinore
- Author credits: Jack London
- Language: English
- Original MP3 tracks: 50
- Listed recording duration: 12:29:39
Catalogue topics
- london
- sea
- ships
- sailing
- adventure
Opening tracks: first 24 of 50
- 01 - I Don't Play Chopsticks — 16:14
- 02 - Mister Pike — 16:46
- 03 - The Greek Overboard — 11:01
- 04 - About Captain West — 8:03
- 05 - A Bughouse Crew — 16:46
- 06 - My Accomodations — 10:00
- 07 - We Never Discuss the Sailors — 11:12
- 08 - Making Sail — 14:24
- 09 - Either a Calm or a Northeast Gale — 18:40
- 10 - Mister Mellaire — 16:22
- 11 - Captain West is no Conversationalist — 10:52
- 12 - Captain West is a Samurai — 9:51
- 13 - Bedbugs! — 19:27
- 14 - Mulligan Jacobs — 17:07
- 15 - O'Sullivan Used a Razor — 16:25
- 16 - Possum Has a Fit — 12:10
- 17 - The Gangsters in the Forecastle — 16:04
- 18 - The Greek Overboard Again — 12:21
- 19 - The Daughter of Herodias — 10:29
- 20 - Miss West is Never Idle — 11:39
- 21 - Charles Davis Murdered O'Sullivan — 9:32
- 22 - Captain West Reprimands Mister Mellaire — 8:33
- 23 - Two Sharks — 9:45
- 24 - Sidney Waltham — 10:09
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