The Young Carthaginian: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The Young Carthaginian, credited to G. A. Henty, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

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LibriVox recording of The Young Carthaginian by G. A. Henty. Read in English by Larry Wilson; Stephen Gibbons; Ravi Shankar; Lynne Thompson; Ralph Crown; Brett G. Hirsch; Arnie Horton; deongines; Edward Kirkby; Paige G; Brett W. Downey Typically, Henty's heroes are boys of pluck in troubled times, and this is no different. Detailed research is embellished with a vivid imagination, especially in this novel set in the Punic wars, about which knowledge is limited: "...certainly we had but a hazy idea as to the merits of the struggle and knew but little of its events, for the Latin and Greek authors, which serve as the ordinary textbooks in schools, do not treat of the Punic wars. That it was a struggle for empire at first, and latterly one for existence on the part of Carthage, that Hannibal was a great and skilful general, that he defeated the Romans at Trebia, Lake Trasimenus, and Cannae, and all but took Rome, and that the Romans behaved with bad faith and great cruelty at the capture of Carthage, represents, I think, pretty nearly the sum total of our knowledge. " (from the preface)

Recording facts

• Recording title: The Young Carthaginian
• Author credits: G. A. Henty
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 23
• Listed recording duration: 11:40:23

Track guide

1. 00 - Preface — 4:27
2. 01 - A Camp In The Desert — 25:45
3. 02 - A Night Attack — 32:38
4. 03 - Carthage — 29:13
5. 04 - A Popular Rising — 29:51
6. 05 - The Conspiracy — 35:06
7. 06 - A Campaign In Spain — 35:55
8. 07 - A Wolf Hunt — 27:51
9. 08 - A Plot Frustrated — 34:51
10. 09 - The Siege Of Saguntum — 24:08
11. 10 - Beset — 35:38
12. 11 - The Passage Of The Rhone — 31:52
13. 12 - Among The Passes — 30:45
14. 13 - The Battle Of The Trebia — 35:53
15. 14 - The Battle Of Lake Trasimene — 40:25
16. 15 - A Mountain Tribe — 25:34
17. 16 - In The Dungeons Of Carthage — 31:59
18. 17 - The Escape — 31:46
19. 18 - Cannae — 29:18
20. 19 - In The Mines — 27:15
21. 20 - The Sardinian Forest — 32:04
22. 21 - The Gaulish Slave — 27:35
23. 22 - The Lion — 40:33

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