Two Tales about Aviation: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Two Tales about Aviation, credited to Rudyard Kipling, 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 Two Tales about Aviation by Rudyard Kipling. Read in English by Phil Benson. Two science fiction stories in which Rudyard Kipling imagined a future world controlled by the Aërial Board of Control (ABC) with its motto, "Transportation is Civilization". In 'With the Night Mail' a postal airship makes an eventful night run across the North Atlantic from London to Quebec. At the end of story, Kipling added a number of faux contemporary documents about the ABC (Part 2 of this recording). A follow up story 'As Easy as ABC' had more to say about the political organization of this new world. (Summary by Phil Benson)

Recording facts

• Recording title: Two Tales about Aviation
• Author credits: Rudyard Kipling
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 3
• Listed recording duration: 2:58:32

Catalogue topics

• adventure
• aviation
• airship

Track guide

1. 01 - With the Night Mail, Part 1 — 58:43
2. 02 - With the Night Mail, Part 2 — 46:20
3. 03 - As Easy As ABC — 1:13:29

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