Typee: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Typee, credited to Herman Melville, 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 Typee, by Herman Melville. Read by Michael Scherer Typee is Melville's first novel, based on his actual experiences after having jumped ship in the Marquesas Islands. Extremely popular at the time of its initial publication, it provoked disbelief among its readers until the events it described were corroborated by Melville's fellow castaway, Richard T. Greene, who appears in the story as the character Toby. While the book is factually based, Melville exercised his artistic license so much that Typee is properly considered a work of fiction: the three week stay on which he based his story is extended in the narrative to four months, and he drew extensively on contemporary accounts by Pacific explorers to add cultural detail to what might otherwise have been a straightforward story of escape, capture and re-escape. (Summary from wikipedia.org)

Recording facts

• Recording title: Typee
• Author credits: Herman Melville
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 36
• Listed recording duration: 11:42:41

Opening tracks: first 24 of 36

1. Typee Chapter 01 — 16:10
2. Typee Chapter 02 — 19:21
3. Typee Chapter 03 — 9:45
4. Typee Chapter 04 — 29:28
5. Typee Chapter 05 — 10:36
6. Typee Chapter 06 — 17:33
7. Typee Chapter 07 — 25:20
8. Typee Chapter 08 — 20:08
9. Typee Chapter 09 — 20:18
10. Typee Chapter 10 — 27:06
11. Typee Chapter 11 — 34:04
12. Typee Chapter 12 — 23:46
13. Typee Chapter 13 — 17:21
14. Typee Chapter 14 — 23:51
15. Typee Chapter 15 — 11:59
16. Typee Chapter 16 — 13:19
17. Typee Chapter 17 — 21:53
18. Typee Chapter 18 — 34:19
19. Typee Chapter 19 — 15:41
20. Typee Chapter 20 — 10:48
21. Typee Chapter 21 — 9:37
22. Typee Chapter 22 — 14:12
23. Typee Chapter 23 — 15:24
24. Typee Chapter 24 — 30:31

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