The Mysterious Island: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The Mysterious Island, 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. Read by Mark F. Smith. A story of castaways, similar to Robinson Crusoe and The Swiss Family Robinson, this book details the escape from Civil War-era Richmond, Virginia, of five Northern men who dared to go aloft in a balloon in the midst of a hurricane. Deposited on a lonely island in the Pacific, they make do with Yankee ingenuity where Chance has left them nothing. Only later do they find they have a hidden benefactor: Captain Nemo, of 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, who resides, alone, secretly on the island. In time, the tiny colony becomes so prosperous that it is able to rescue another castaway from an island a hundred miles away. But all their work will come to naught - their island's volcano is about to awake!(Summary by Mark)

Recording facts

• Recording title: The Mysterious Island
• Author credits: Jules Verne
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 62
• Listed recording duration: 21:58:03

Catalogue topics

• verne
• sci-fi
• adventure

Opening tracks: first 24 of 62

1. 1-01 The Storm of 1865. Voices in the Air. — 15:46
2. 1-02 An Incident in the War of Secession — 21:58
3. 1-03 Five O'Clock in the Evening — 17:38
4. 1-04 Lithodomes. The River's Mouth. The Chimneys. — 20:22
5. 1-05 Arranging the Chimneys. How to Procure Fire. — 18:06
6. 1-06 The Inventory of the Castaways. Expedition to the Forest. — 19:02
7. 1-07 Neb Has Not Yet Returned. A Threatening Night. — 19:39
8. 1-08 Is Cyrus Harding Living? Neb's Recital. — 19:25
9. 1-09 Cyrus is Here. Pencroft's Attempts. — 21:48
10. 1-10 The Engineer's Invention. Volcanic Soil. — 21:17
11. 1-11 At the Summit of the Cone — 24:01
12. 1-12 Regulating the Watches. Pencroft is Satisfied. — 21:27
13. 1-13 What is Found Upon Top — 24:22
14. 1-14 Measuring the Cliff. Latitude of the Island. — 20:43
15. 1-15 It Is Decided to Winter on the Island — 18:46
16. 1-16 The Question of a Dwelling is Again Discussed. — 18:59
17. 1-17 Visit to the Lake. The Indicating Current. — 21:56
18. 1-18 Pencroft Now Doubts Nothing — 18:55
19. 1-19 Cyrus Harding's Project. The Rope Ladder. — 19:58
20. 1-20 The Rainy Season. The Question of Clothes. — 17:44
21. 1-21 Some Degrees Below Zero. — 20:44
22. 1-22 Traps. Foxes. Peccaries. — 26:54
23. 2-01 Conversation on the Subject of the Bullet — 20:05
24. 2-02 First Trial of the Canoe. A Wreck on the Coast. — 20:18

Listen to this recording

Open the complete recording and player on Internet Archive. The player includes the full track list and available download formats.

Source and rights

This is a record from LibriVox's official Internet Archive collection, with a public-domain licence recorded in its metadata. LibriVox's policy includes its catalogue summaries as well as its recordings. Its public-domain assessment follows United States law; copyright status can differ elsewhere. The summary and track facts are reproduced and reformatted from that record. Dates attached to the archive upload are not treated as original book publication dates.