When the World Shook: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

When the World Shook, credited to H. Rider Haggard, 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 When the World Shook by H. Rider Haggard. Read in English by Librivox volunteers A fictional memoir of Humphrey Arbuthnot of Devonshire, we are taken on a voyage to the island of Orofena, in the South Seas, together with Bickley, the servant Bastin and the spaniel Tommy. It is a land of adventure and danger, the result of which eventually leads to the author's death. - Summary by Lynne Thompson

Recording facts

• Recording title: When the World Shook
• Author credits: H. Rider Haggard
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 28
• Listed recording duration: 12:37:40

Opening tracks: first 24 of 28

1. 01 - Arbuthnot Describes Himself — 28:25
2. 02 - Bastin and Bickley — 21:28
3. 03 - Natalie — 20:19
4. 04 - Death and Departure — 22:01
5. 05 - The Cyclone — 28:36
6. 06 - Land — 23:11
7. 07 - The Orofenans — 26:40
8. 08 - Bastin Attempts the Martyr’s Crown — 30:45
9. 09 - The Island in the Lake — 28:44
10. 10 - The Dwellers in the Tomb — 26:20
11. 11 - Resurrection — 28:52
12. 12 - Two Hundred and Fifty Thousand Years! — 31:00
13. 13 - Oro Speaks and Bastin Argues — 25:30
14. 14 - The Under-world — 26:51
15. 15 - Oro in His House — 19:40
16. 16 - Visions of the Past — 30:38
17. 17 - Yva Explains — 35:21
18. 18 - The Accident — 38:02
19. 19 - The Proposals of Bastin and Bickley — 26:06
20. 20 - Oro and Arbuthnot Travel by Night — 37:50
21. 21 - Love’s Eternal Altar — 25:49
22. 22 - The Command — 27:53
23. 23 - In the Temple of Fate — 37:57
24. 24 - The Chariot of the Pit — 37:07

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