Vagabond Adventures: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Vagabond Adventures, credited to Ralph Keeler, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

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The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

LibriVox recording of Vagabond Adventures by Ralph Keeler. Read in English by John Greenman. Ralph Keeler failed as a novelist, but this autobiography reflects a life well-lived with humor and adventure. Keeler was in the same literary circle as satirist Bret Harte, novelist Charles Warren Stoddard, editor Thomas Bailey Aldrich, and essayist William Dean Howells. He so impressed Mark Twain that Twain wrote an essay about him called "Ralph Keeler". In 1873, on his way to Cuba, he reportedly was thrown overboard by a Spanish loyalist who objected to his backing of the revolutionary, anti-Spanish movement. - Summary by John Greenman

Recording facts

• Recording title: Vagabond Adventures
• Author credits: Ralph Keeler
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 25
• Listed recording duration: 5:20:33

Catalogue topics

• travel
• autobiography
• ralph keeler

Opening tracks: first 24 of 25

1. 01 - BOOK I. AMONG WHARVES AND CABINS. CHAPTER I. Prefatory — 3:49
2. 02 - CHAPTER II. Family Matters — 12:10
3. 03 - CHAPTER III. A Fugitive — 13:20
4. 04 - CHAPTER IV. A Stormy Time — 16:08
5. 05 - CHAPTER V. A Boy’s Paradise — 7:44
6. 06 - CHAPTER VI. The Contumely of Captains — 10:09
7. 07 - CHAPTER VII. Almost a Tragedy — 10:56
8. 08 - CHAPTER VIII. Taken Prisoner — 11:03
9. 09 - CHAPTER IX. Squalor — 11:38
10. 10 - CHAPTER X. A Final Triumph — 11:26
11. 11 - BOOK II. THREE YEARS AS A NEGRO-MINSTREL. CHAPTER I. My First Company — 8:57
12. 12 - CHAPTER II. I become a Beneficiary — 10:14
13. 13 - CHAPTER III. The Fate of the Serenaders — 15:39
14. 14 - CHAPTER IV. The Trials and Triumphs of the “Booker Troupe” — 19:13
15. 15 - CHAPTER V. The Last of the “Booker Troupe” — 13:28
16. 16 - CHAPTER VI. “The Mitchells” — 22:05
17. 17 - CHAPTER VII. On the Floating Palace — 17:37
18. 18 - CHAPTER VIII. Wild Life — 21:58
19. 19 - CHAPTER IX. The Performer Socially — 11:13
20. 20 - CHAPTER X. Adieu to the Stage — 8:41
21. 21 - BOOK III. THE TOUR OF EUROPE FOR $181 IN CURRENCY. CHAPTER I. Starting on a Cattle-Train — 8:43
22. 22 - CHAPTER II. Taking to European Ways — 14:31
23. 23 - CHAPTER III. Student Life and Wanderings — 15:17
24. 24 - CHAPTER IV. A Fight with Famine — 13:48

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