The Talking Handkerchief, and Other Stories: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The Talking Handkerchief, and Other Stories, credited to Thomas Wallace Knox, 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 Talking Handkerchief, and Other Stories by Thomas Wallace Knox. Read in English by Michael F. Plueger Sr.; DannyHauger; Mike Pelton; Paezra; Matthew Thompson; Anthony Castellani; ToddHW; Lmnei; Kalynda; NathanTroyer This is a collection of 22 stories of action and adventure. We follow the narrators as they escape pirates and cannibals, overcome natural disasters, and are attacked by wild animals. Cunning plans are executed and daring escapes are accomplished, all in the particular style of the 19th century adventure story. Thomas Knox was an author who had travelled around the world by the time he wrote the stories in this volume, and who was no stranger to any of the geographic areas in which he set his stories. - Summary by Carolin

Recording facts

• Recording title: The Talking Handkerchief, and Other Stories
• Author credits: Thomas Wallace Knox
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 22
• Listed recording duration: 6:04:12

Catalogue topics

• adventure
• story
• America
• short story
• spy
• New York
• pirates
• 1893

Track guide

1. 01 - The Talking Handkerchief — 37:54
2. 02 - Frozen to an Ice-Floe — 15:06
3. 03 - Captured by Cannibals — 19:30
4. 04 - In a Shark's Mouth — 13:00
5. 05 - Beset by Chinese Pirates — 16:10
6. 06 - Jugglers of the Orient — 21:02
7. 07 - The Serf's Revenge — 17:15
8. 08 - The Head-Hunters of Borneo — 14:56
9. 09 - A Fight with a Tiger — 9:44
10. 10 - Caught in a Typhoon — 10:48
11. 11 - Chased by Wolves — 19:46
12. 12 - Betrayed by a Mirage — 12:20
13. 13 - To the Great Wall of China — 14:38
14. 14 - A Corroboree in Australia — 15:26
15. 15 - Treed by an Elephant — 12:34
16. 16 - Stopped by Russian Robbers — 18:46
17. 17 - A Battle with a Kangaroo — 15:06
18. 18 - A Russian Elopement — 14:28
19. 19 - Chased by Malay Pirates — 10:30
20. 20 - An Exile's Escape from Siberia — 15:38
21. 21 - Oriental Thieves — 14:16
22. 22 - A Chemical Detective — 25:18

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