The Shipwreck: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The Shipwreck, credited to William Falconer, 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 Shipwreck by William Falconer. Read in English by Phil Schempf A semi-autobiographical poem in three cantos recounts the wreck of the merchant ship Britannia. Written by William Falconer, a seaman of some experience, who survived one shipwreck himself with only two others of the 50 man crew and eventually perished in the loss of a second ship, the frigate Aurora, 20 years later. The poem is recognized for its realistic portrayal of life aboard an 18th century sailing vessel. - Summary by Fritz

Recording facts

• Recording title: The Shipwreck
• Author credits: William Falconer
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 17
• Listed recording duration: 4:13:45

Catalogue topics

• sailing ships
• merchant marine

Track guide

1. 01 - Memoir of Falconer, Part 1 — 30:09
2. 02 - Memoir of Falconer, Part 2 — 37:34
3. 03 - Introduction — 7:48
4. 04 - Canto First, Part 1 — 7:39
5. 05 - Canto First, Part 2 — 15:06
6. 06 - Canto First, Part 3 — 17:40
7. 07 - Canto First, Part 4 — 13:26
8. 08 - Canto Second, Part 1 — 2:00
9. 09 - Canto Second, Part 2 — 13:07
10. 10 - Canto Second, Part 3 — 10:49
11. 11 - Canto Second, Part 4 — 33:25
12. 12 - Canto Third, Part 1 — 4:00
13. 13 - Canto Third, Part 2 — 5:42
14. 14 - Canto Third, Part 3 — 14:46
15. 15 - Canto Third, Part 4 — 10:32
16. 16 - Canto Third, Part 5 — 24:21
17. 17 - Occasional Elegy — 5:41

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