The Quest of the Golden Pearl: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The Quest of the Golden Pearl, credited to John Robert Hutchinson, 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 Quest of the Golden Pearl by John Robert Hutchinson. Read in English by Lynne Thompson; Gloria Begemann; Bridget Herbes; CPvoice; Antonio; K. Adrian Stroet A classic boys' adventure story, with two intrepid boys pursuing a jewel thief despite deadly perils and a haunted temple on a desolate island. The book has been made into an online game for modern-day treasure hunters. - Summary by Lynne Thompson

Recording facts

• Recording title: The Quest of the Golden Pearl
• Author credits: John Robert Hutchinson
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 26
• Listed recording duration: 6:26:22

Catalogue topics

• adventure
• thief
• Ceylon
• island
• Temple
• boys
• danger
• jewels

Opening tracks: first 24 of 26

1. 01 - The Shark-Charmer Walks the Plank — 9:50
2. 02 - A Stroke of Luck and an After-Stroke — 10:30
3. 03 - The Quest Begins — 25:29
4. 04 - Introduces Bosin, and Tells How Captain Mango Proved Himself a Trump — 24:35
5. 05 - The Lascar Gets his Knife Back — 23:44
6. 06 - In the Thick of it. — 27:00
7. 07 - 'Fin or Fighting - I'm Ready Anyhow!' — 16:15
8. 08 - At the Haunted Pagodas — 25:20
9. 09 - Was it Jack? — 22:24
10. 10 - In Which the Old Saw, 'Out of the Frying-Pan, Into the Fire' is Reversed, with Startling Effect — 15:55
11. 11 - Into the Heart of the Hill — 13:03
12. 12 - Relates How a Wrong Road Led to the Right Place — 10:27
13. 13 - Captain Mango 'Goes Aloft' — 19:40
14. 14 - Shrouded in a Hammock — 12:09
15. 15 - The Crocodile Pit — 7:40
16. 16 - Don Sets a Death-Trap for the Lascar — 7:12
17. 17 - The Blast of a Conch-Shell — 11:33
18. 18 - Between Life and Death — 12:26
19. 19 - One-to-Twenty Gives Twenty-to-One the Worst of it — 7:32
20. 20 - The Last Straw — 17:47
21. 21 - Rivals for the Honours of Death — 12:49
22. 22 - A Report From the Sea — 14:04
23. 23 - Don Runs the Gauntlet — 12:34
24. 24 - In the Nick of Time — 12:57

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