Thrilling Adventures By Land And Sea: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Thrilling Adventures By Land And Sea, credited to James O. Brayman, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

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LibriVox recording of Thrilling Adventures By Land And Sea by James O. Brayman. Read in English by David Wales There is in the adventures of the daring and heroic, something that interests all. There is a charm about them which, while it partakes of the nature of Romance, does not exercise the same influence upon the mind or heart. When there are noble purposes and noble ends connected with them, they excite in the mind of the reader, noble impulses. The object of the present compilation [1852] is to form a readable and instructive volume--a volume of startling incident and exciting adventure, which shall interest all minds, and by its attractions beget thirst for reading… - Book Preface

Recording facts

• Recording title: Thrilling Adventures By Land And Sea
• Author credits: James O. Brayman
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 22
• Listed recording duration: 10:23:34

Catalogue topics

• travel
• exploration
• adventure
• ships
• Hunting
• disasters
• episodes

Track guide

1. 00 - Preface — 2:54
2. 01 - Incident at Resaca de la Palma; True Heroism; Thrilling Incident; Incident in the War of Mexican Independence — 27:33
3. 02 - Sketch from Life on the Ocean — 23:42
4. 03 - Escape from Shipwreck; The Hunter's Wife — 34:11
5. 04 - Deaf Smith, the Texan Spy; Escape from a Shark; Adventure with Pirates — 32:26
6. 05 - A Sea-Fowling Adventure; Adventure with a Cobra di Capello; Combat of Wild Animals; Perilous Incident on a Canadian River; A Whale Chase — 30:06
7. 06 - Leopard Hunting And Adventures With Buffaloes And Lions; Hunting the White Rhinoceros, Lion, Buffalo, and Giraffe; A Leopard Hunt; Life in California — 33:43
8. 07 - A Storm among the Icebergs; Fall of the Rossberg; The Rifleman of Chippewa; Shipwreck of the Blendenhall — 30:43
9. 08 - Adventures of Sergeant Champe In His Attempt To Capture Arnold — 27:57
10. 09 - Adventures with Pirates; Kenton, the Spy — 36:12
11. 10 - The Dying Volunteer, An Incident Of Molino Del Rey; Escape from a Mexican Quicksand By Captain Mayne Reid — 27:11
12. 11 - Charged by a Rhinoceros; Burning of the Erie; Conflict with an Indian; Fire on the Prairies; The Captain's Story — 37:52
13. 12 - Tussle with a Wildcat; Incident in Frontier Life; Female Intrepidity; Encounter with Robbers; Shipwreck of the Monticello — 31:38
14. 13 - A Jungle Recollection; Attack of Boonesborough; Thrilling Incidents of Battle; Family Attacked by Indians — 31:54
15. 14 - Thrilling Incident; Adventures of Dr. Bacon — 24:07
16. 15 - A Battle with Snakes; Estill's Defeat; Incident at Niagara Falls; Skater chased by a Wolf; Our Flag on the Rocky Mountains; Running the Canon — 31:47
17. 16 - The Rescue; Shipwreck of the Medusa — 30:15
18. 17 - Hunting the Moose; Perilous Escape from Death; Fire in the Forest; Pirates of the Red Sea — 30:44
19. 18 - General Jackson and Weatherford; Cruise of the Saldanha and Talbot; A Carib's Revenge; Massacre of Fort Mimms; The Freshet — 25:16
20. 19 - The Panther's Den; Adventure with Elephants; The Shark Sentinel; Hunting the Tiger — 28:16
21. 20 - Indian Devil; Bear Fight; The Miners of Bois-Monzil — 28:43
22. 21 - Ship Towed to Land by Bullocks; Destruction of a Ship by a Whale; Burning of the Kent — 16:23

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