The Pirates of Panama: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The Pirates of Panama, credited to Alexandre Exquemelin, 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 PIRATES OF PANAMA, by Alexandre Exquemelin. This volume was originally written in Dutch by John Esquemeling, and first published in Amsterdam in 1678 under the title of De Americaeneche Zee Roovers. It immediately became very popular and this first hand history of the Buccaneers of America was soon translated into the principal European languages. The first English edition was printed in 1684. Esquemeling served the Buccaneers in the capacity of barber-surgeon, and was present at all their exploits. Little did he suspect that his first hand observations would some day be cherished as the only authentic and true history of the Buccaneers and Marooners of the Spanish Main. From time to time new editions of this work have been published, but in many cases much new material, not always authentic, has been added and the result has been to mar the original narrative as set forth by Esquemeling. In arranging this edition, the original English text only has been used, and but few changes made by cutting out the long and tedious description of plant and animal life of the West Indies of which Esquemeling had only a smattering of truth. But, the history of Captain Morgan and his fellow buccaneers is here printed almost identical with the original English translation, and we believe it is the first time this history has been published in a suitable form for the juvenile reader with no loss of interest to the adult. (Summary excerpted from the Introduction)

Recording facts

• Recording title: The Pirates of Panama
• Author credits: Alexandre Exquemelin
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 29
• Listed recording duration: 6:20:59

Catalogue topics

• pirate
• adventure
• non-fiction
• history
• sea stories
• young adult

Opening tracks: first 24 of 29

1. 00 - Introduction — 4:05
2. 01 - Preface — 18:45
3. 02 - Chapter 1 — 8:17
4. 03 - Chapter 2 — 22:43
5. 04 - Chapter 3 — 25:40
6. 05 - Chapter 4 — 6:52
7. 06 - Chapter 5, part 1 — 14:25
8. 07 - Chapter 5, part 2 — 11:41
9. 08 - Chapter 6 — 8:02
10. 09 - Chapter 7, part 1 — 14:47
11. 10 - Chapter 7, part 2 — 11:04
12. 11 - Chapter 8, part 1 — 15:09
13. 12 - Chapter 8. part 2 — 12:39
14. 13 - Chapter 9 — 20:00
15. 14 - Chapter 10 — 20:38
16. 15 - Chapter 11 — 15:39
17. 16 - Chapter 12, part 1 — 9:08
18. 17 - Chapter 12, part 2 — 8:54
19. 18 - Chapter 12, part 3 — 8:46
20. 19 - Chapter 12, part 4 — 8:53
21. 20 - Chapter 12, part 5 — 8:58
22. 21 - Chapter 12, part 6 — 9:00
23. 22 - Chapter 13 — 3:29
24. 23 - Chapter 14 — 7:25

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