The Mysterious Island (Version 2): Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The Mysterious Island (Version 2), credited to Jules Verne, 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 Mysterious Island by Jules Verne (1828–1905), translated by William Henry Giles Kingston (1814-1880) and read by LibriVox volunteers. The book tells the adventures of five Americans on an uncharted island in the South Pacific. The story begins in the American Civil War, during the siege of Richmond, Virginia, the capital of the Confederate States of America. As famine and death ravage the city, five northern prisoners of war decide to escape by the unusual means of hijacking a balloon. The five are Cyrus Smith, a railroad engineer in the Union army (named Cyrus Harding in some English translations); his black manservant Neb (short for Nebuchadnezzar), who Verne repeatedly states is not a slave but an ex-slave who had been freed by Smith; the sailor Bonadventure Pencroff (who is addressed only by his surname, but his "Christian name", Bonadventure, is given to their boat; in other translations, he is also known as Pencroft); his protégé Harbert Brown (called Herbert in some translations), a young boy whom Pencroff raises as his own after the death of his father (Pencroff's former captain); and the journalist Gedéon Spilett (Gideon Spilett in English versions). The company is completed by Cyrus' dog 'Top'. After flying in stormy weather for several days, the group crash-lands on a cliff-bound, volcanic, unknown (and fictitious) island. They name it "Lincoln Island" in honor of American President Abraham Lincoln. With the knowledge of the brilliant engineer Smith, the five are able to sustain themselves on the island, hoping that they will one day escape. (Summary by Wikipedia)

Recording facts

• Recording title: The Mysterious Island (Version 2)
• Author credits: Jules Verne
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 62
• Listed recording duration: 23:22:52

Catalogue topics

• fiction
• adventure
• mystery

Opening tracks: first 24 of 62

1. 01 - Volume I Chapter 1 — 16:36
2. 02 - Volume I Chapter 2 — 23:48
3. 03 - Volume I Chapter 3 — 18:58
4. 04 - Volume I Chapter 4 — 19:49
5. 05 - Volume I Chapter 5 — 15:45
6. 06 - Volume I Chapter 6 — 17:04
7. 07 - Volume I Chapter 7 — 19:10
8. 08 - Volume I Chapter 8 — 20:19
9. 09 - Volume I Chapter 9 — 21:18
10. 10 - Volume I Chapter 10 — 21:45
11. 11 - Volume I Chapter 11 — 25:14
12. 12 - Volume I Chapter 12 — 22:09
13. 13 - Volume I Chapter 13 — 28:53
14. 14 - Volume I Chapter 14 — 25:20
15. 15 - Volume I Chapter 15 — 23:56
16. 16 - Volume I Chapter 16 — 24:25
17. 17 - Volume I Chapter 17 — 28:30
18. 18 - Volume I Chapter 18 — 21:57
19. 19 - Volume I Chapter 19 — 24:23
20. 20 - Volume I Chapter 20 — 17:18
21. 21 - Volume I Chapter 21 — 24:44
22. 22 - Volume I Chapter 22 — 34:59
23. 23 - Volume II Chapter 1 — 24:38
24. 24 - Volume II Chapter 2 — 25:24

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