Two Years Before the Mast: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide
Two Years Before the Mast by Richard Henry Dana, Jr.: the LibriVox audiobook summary, 49 original MP3 tracks, 17:41:32 running time and a link to listen.
Two Years Before the Mast, credited to Richard Henry Dana, Jr., 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 Years Before the Mast, by Richard Henry Dana, Jr. Read by BethAnne and TriciaG. While there are many books upon the subject of sea life, there are few that can compare with Two Years Before the Mast. It is the story of a sailor's life from the forecastle, not a captain, nor a passenger, but a regular hand. The book was a great favorite with the jack tar of Dana's day, and two thousand copies are said to have been sold to Liverpool sailors in a single day. Even those who haven't the faintest idea what reefing topsail is, or which is starboard and which larboard, will find it an engaging story of an era long past told in simple narrative style. (Summary by BethAnne)
Recording facts
- Recording title: Two Years Before the Mast
- Author credits: Richard Henry Dana, Jr.
- Language: English
- Original MP3 tracks: 49
- Listed recording duration: 17:41:32
Catalogue topics
- Adventure
- Memoirs
- Sea stories
- Travel
Opening tracks: first 24 of 49
- 00 Preface — 5:11
- 01 Departure — 5:48
- 02 First Impressions — 16:22
- 03 Ship's Duties — 14:15
- 04 Sundays At Sea — 18:40
- 05 Cape Horn — 23:42
- 06 Loss of a Man — 12:19
- 07 Juan Fernandez — 16:55
- 08 Daily Life — 14:00
- 09 Santa Barbra — 20:22
- 10 A South Easter — 11:38
- 11 Passage Up the Coast — 13:13
- 12 Monterey — 7:33
- 13 Trading at Monterey — 27:02
- 14 Discontent — 32:00
- 15 Flogging, pt 1 — 19:57
- 16 Flogging, pt 2 — 18:28
- 17 Liberty Day on Shore — 21:04
- 18 San Diego — 19:37
- 19 Easter Sunday, pt 1 — 19:27
- 20 Easter Sunday, pt 2 — 17:27
- 21 Sandwich-Islanders, pt 1 — 20:06
- 22 Sandwich-Islanders, pt 2 — 19:58
- 23 New Comers — 23:07
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