Young Americans Abroad: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Young Americans Abroad, credited to J. O. Choules, 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 Young Americans Abroad - Vacation in Europe: Travels in England, France, Holland, Belgium, Prussia and Switzerland, by J. O. Choules (ed.) Read by Sibella Denton. It’s 1851 and the Crystal Palace Exhibition is on in England. English American the Reverend Dr. Choules leaves Newport, Rhode Island with three teenaged students - James Robinson, George Vanderbuilt, and Weld French, who are forced to leave the fourth member of their blue-blooded quartet at home - and all four travelers promise to write to “Dear Charley”, Charles Duston, of later fame. The boys meet the Duke of Wellington, travel down the Rhine, and meet many friends along the way. While the letters are filled with some prejudice against the Catholic religion, they are a product of their time - a sometimes ignorant, but often dazzling, period of our history. (Summary by Sibella Denton)

Recording facts

• Recording title: Young Americans Abroad
• Author credits: J. O. Choules
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 56
• Listed recording duration: 8:15:23

Catalogue topics

• travel
• history

Opening tracks: first 24 of 56

1. Introduction — 1:55
2. Letter 01 — 2:15
3. Letter 02 — 12:53
4. Letter 03 — 8:30
5. Letter 04 — 7:09
6. Letter 05 — 8:12
7. Letter 06 — 6:24
8. Letter 07 — 8:56
9. Letter 08 — 8:54
10. Letter 09 — 8:14
11. Letter 10 — 5:33
12. Letter 11 — 9:05
13. Letter 12 — 9:16
14. Letter 13 — 7:04
15. Letter 14 — 6:36
16. Letter 15 — 10:10
17. Letter 16 — 27:22
18. Letter 17 — 6:44
19. Letter 18 — 17:12
20. Letter 19 — 7:41
21. Letter 20 — 11:17
22. Letter 21 — 7:00
23. Letter 22 — 5:52
24. Letter 23 — 5:04

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