The Voyage of the Beagle: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The Voyage of the Beagle, credited to Charles Darwin, 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 Voyage of the Beagle by Charles Darwin. For more information on the readers, visit the LibriVox catalog page: http://librivox.org/the-voyage-of-the-beagle-by-charles-darwin/ The book, also known as Darwin's Journal of Researches, is a vivid and exciting travel memoir as well as a detailed scientific field journal covering biology, geology, and anthropology that demonstrates Darwin's keen powers of observation, written at a time when Western Europeans were still discovering and exploring much of the rest of the world. Although Darwin revisited some areas during the expedition, for clarity the chapters of the book are ordered by reference to places and locations rather than chronologically. With hindsight, ideas which Darwin would later develop into his theory of evolution by natural selection are hinted at in his notes and in the book (Summary from Wikipedia). M4B audio book (155mb)

Recording facts

• Recording title: The Voyage of the Beagle
• Author credits: Charles Darwin
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 48
• Listed recording duration: 21:50:23

Catalogue topics

• natural science
• geography
• travel
• darwin
• beagle

Opening tracks: first 24 of 48

1. 00 - Preface — 4:48
2. 01-1 - St. Jago and Cape De Verd Islands — 28:25
3. 01-2 - St. Jago and Cape De Verd Islands — 19:15
4. 02-1 - Rio de Janeiro — 27:10
5. 02-2 - Rio de Janeiro — 28:30
6. 03-1 - Maldonado — 31:52
7. 03-2 - Maldonado — 29:46
8. 04-1 - Rio Negro to Bahia Blanca — 22:47
9. 04-2 - Rio Negro to Bahia Blanca — 23:23
10. 05-1 - Bahia Blanca — 32:16
11. 05-2 - Bahia Blanca — 31:32
12. 06-1 - Bahia Blanca to Buenos Ayres — 23:53
13. 06-2 - Bahia Blanca to Buenos Ayres — 24:54
14. 07-1 - Buenos Ayres and St. Fe — 22:15
15. 07-2 - Buenos Ayres and St. Fe — 22:00
16. 08-1 - Banda Oriental and Patagonia — 30:14
17. 08-2 - Banda Oriental and Patagonia — 32:42
18. 08-3 - Banda Oriental and Patagonia — 30:31
19. 09-1 - Santa Cruz, Patagonia, and the Falkland Islands — 30:30
20. 09-2 - Santa Cruz, Patagonia, and the Falkland Islands — 44:10
21. 10-1 - Tierra del Fuego — 30:04
22. 10-2 - Tierra del Fuego — 32:30
23. 11-1 - Strait of Magellan and Climate of the Southern Coasts — 29:47
24. 11-2 - Strait of Magellan and Climate of the Southern Coasts — 25:46

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