Through the Desert: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Through the Desert, credited to Henryk Sienkiewicz, 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 Through the Desert by Henryk Sienkiewicz. (Translated by Mary W. Artois.) Read in English by David Granville Young. Through the Desert, also translated as In Desert and Wilderness, is a novel set in nineteenth-century Egypt about two children, one Polish and one English, who are kidnapped. It was written by the Nobel-prize-winning Henryk Sienkiewicz and was his only foray into the genre of young-adult fiction. - Summary by David Granville Young

Recording facts

• Recording title: Through the Desert
• Author credits: Henryk Sienkiewicz
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 43
• Listed recording duration: 15:39:14

Catalogue topics

• fiction
• adventure
• Friendship
• kidnap
• nineteenth-century novels
• children's and young-adult fiction

Opening tracks: first 24 of 43

1. 01 - Part One Chapter One — 17:20
2. 02 - Part One Chapter Two — 27:30
3. 03 - Part One Chapter Three — 13:40
4. 04 - Part One Chapter Four — 14:17
5. 05 - Part One Chapter Five — 25:54
6. 06 - Part One Chapter Six — 13:40
7. 07 - Part One Chapter Seven — 29:12
8. 08 - Part One Chapter Eight — 28:12
9. 09 - Part One Chapter Nine — 16:06
10. 10 - Part One Chapter Ten — 7:14
11. 11 - Part One Chapter Eleven — 33:14
12. 12 - Part One Chapter Twelve — 19:39
13. 13 - Part One Chapter Thirteen — 13:17
14. 14 - Part One Chapter Fourteen — 53:15
15. 15 - Part One Chapter Fifteen — 17:26
16. 16 - Part One Chapter Sixteen — 14:13
17. 17 - Part One Chapter Seventeen — 15:46
18. 18 - Part One Chapter Eighteen — 20:01
19. 19 - Part Two Chapter One — 23:47
20. 20 - Part Two Chapter Two — 30:33
21. 21 - Part Two Chapter Three — 27:34
22. 22 - Part Two Chapter Four — 47:46
23. 23 - Part Two Chapter Five — 10:44
24. 24 - Part Two Chapter Six — 16:53

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