The Protector: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The Protector, credited to Harold Bindloss, 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 Protector, by Harold Bindloss. Read by Roger Melin. Harold Bindloss, while born in England, based most of his novels in western Canada, and The Protector is based primarily in and around Vancouver and Victoria. There is often danger involved in the mining and timber industries north of Vancouver, and there is also danger in the trust given to people who own and operate these mines and timber lands. And finding one's way in locating them can be equally as difficult as well. Wallace Vane and his trusted friend Carroll seemed to encounter these dangers in a seemingly endless journey both for business purposes and for adventure in their search for adequate timber land which they had inadvertently heard of. What is the driving force behind Wallace Vane? Did he regret leaving his home country and the people he knew when he left England, therefore had something to prove, but didn't even realize it himself? Was it simply a secret joy that he received whenever he observed the beauty of his adopted country with its mountains, forests, and crystal clear water? Perhaps it was his reasonable success in the lumber industry? Or was it something deeper within him? Something, perhaps, that he didn't even recognize himself? (Introduction by Roger Melin)

Recording facts

• Recording title: The Protector
• Author credits: Harold Bindloss
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 31
• Listed recording duration: 9:31:16

Catalogue topics

• fiction
• mining
• timber
• adventure

Opening tracks: first 24 of 31

1. 01 - A Friend in Need — 22:20
2. 02 - A Breeze of Wind — 22:53
3. 03 - An Afternoon Ashore — 15:59
4. 04 - A Change of Environment — 18:20
5. 05 - The Old Country — 15:16
6. 06 - Upon the Heights — 19:25
7. 07 - Storm-Stayed — 18:58
8. 08 - Lucy Vane — 16:17
9. 09 - Chisolm Proves Amenable — 12:43
10. 10 - With the Otter Hounds — 23:37
11. 11 - Vane Withdraws — 22:52
12. 12 - Vane Grows Restless — 14:04
13. 13 - A New Project — 17:33
14. 14 - Vane Sails North — 11:40
15. 15 - The First Misadventure — 14:45
16. 16 - The Bush — 16:18
17. 17 - Vane Postpones the Search — 11:38
18. 18 - Jessie Confers a Favour — 17:04
19. 19 - Vane Foresees Trouble — 15:07
20. 20 - The Flood — 11:45
21. 21 - Vane Yields a Point — 22:13
22. 22 - Evelyn Goes for a Sail — 16:49
23. 23 - Vane Proves Obdurate — 20:01
24. 24 - Jessie Strikes — 22:59

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