The Mysterious Island - Shipwrecked in the Air: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide
The Mysterious Island - Shipwrecked in the Air by Jules Verne: the LibriVox audiobook summary, 22 original MP3 tracks, 5:56:16 running time and a link to listen.
The Mysterious Island - Shipwrecked in the Air, 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 book 1 (White translation) by Jules Verne. (Translated by Stephen W. White.) Read in English by Piotr Nater In the final months of the American Civil War five Northerners find themselves trapped in the Southern capital of Richmond. They conceive of a plan to escape with a baloon kept nearby. However, not all goes as planned and as a powerful gale surprises them, their balloon veers off course by some thousands of miles and the five find themselves fighting desperately for their survival... (plot summary by Piotr Nater) The present translation is by the American Stephen W. White. It first appeared in the Evening Telegraph of Philadelphia, PA and was later published as an Evening Telegraph Reprint Book (1876). According to Taves and Michaluk “Although more faithful than any other translation, this one has never been reprinted”. Still, there is still condensation and omission of some sections such as Verne's description of how a sawmill works. (taken from the Redactor's Note available at Project Gutenberg. ( Norman M. Wolcott) and Wikipedia) This is book one of three.
Recording facts
- Recording title: The Mysterious Island - Shipwrecked in the Air
- Author credits: Jules Verne
- Language: English
- Original MP3 tracks: 22
- Listed recording duration: 5:56:16
Track guide
- 01 - Chapter 01 — 12:43
- 02 - Chapter 02 — 18:46
- 03 - Chapter 03 — 14:50
- 04 - Chapter 04 — 13:50
- 05 - Chapter 05 — 15:33
- 06 - Chapter 06 — 12:40
- 07 - Chapter 07 — 15:57
- 08 - Chapter 08 — 16:18
- 09 - Chapter 09 — 18:41
- 10 - Chapter 10 — 15:12
- 11 - Chapter 11 — 17:46
- 12 - Chapter 12 — 16:37
- 13 - Chapter 13 — 18:35
- 14 - Chapter 14 — 14:13
- 15 - Chapter 15 — 14:08
- 16 - Chapter 16 — 15:11
- 17 - Chapter 17 — 18:21
- 18 - Chapter 18 — 16:05
- 19 - Chapter 19 — 14:53
- 20 - Chapter 20 — 13:46
- 21 - Chapter 21 — 18:36
- 22 - Chapter 52 — 23:35
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