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Moonfleet

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Action & Adventure
Chapter: 24 | Listen:

The novel is set in a fishing village in Dorset during the mid 18th century. The story concerns a 15 year old orphan boy, John Trenchard, who becomes friends with an older man who turns out to be the leader of a gang of smugglers. One night John chances on the smugglers’ store in the crypt beneath the church. He explores but hides behind a coffin when he hears voices. He finds a locket which contains a parchment, in the coffin belonging to Colonel Mohune. Unfortunately after the visitors leave, he finds himself trapped inside, and is only rescued two days later when two of the smugglers, Ratsey, the sexton and Elzevir Block, the innkeeper of the Why Not?, the local pub, investigate his disappearance. His aunt insists he leaves her house and Elzevir Block takes him in to live at the pub. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moonfleet) [chương_files]

Sea and the Jungle

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Exploration, Nature, Travel & Geography
Chapter: 15 | Listen:

Considered one of the greatest travel narratives, The Sea and the Jungle is H.M. Tomlinson’s firsthand account of the first journey of an English steamer up the Madeira in Brazil. Bored with his unfulfilling job in London, Tomlinson boards the steamer “Capella” at Swansea and embarks on a journey to deliver supplies to the men building railroads for the rubber harvest. The book overflows with vivid descriptions of the sea voyage and the tropics, as well as Tomlinson’s dry sense of humor and observations. In his time in the Amazon and at sea, Tomlinson encounters storms, rotted food, yellow fever, angry mules, rapids, mosquitoes, and the foreboding character of the Amazon rainforest. (Summary by Tatiana Chichilla) [chương_files]

Rambles in New Zealand

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Exploration
Chapter: 7 | Listen: 4

John Carne Bidwill came out to Sydney in 1838 to represent his family’s mercantile business. Finding that he had time on his hands he decided to make a journey to New Zealand with the intention of penetrating to the high mountains in the interior of the North Island. This is the story of that journey—that of the first white man to climb Mt. Tongariro and the attendant adventures associated with such. Intermixed is commentary on the botany of that part of New Zealand and the language of the Ma̅ori people. – Summary by Beeswaxcandle [chương_files]

Rinkitink in Oz (version 2)

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Action & Adventure, Dramatic Readings
Chapter: 26 | Listen:

Prince Inga lives a happy life on the island of Pingaree until one day invaders from the north enslave every person on the island, including his parents. Inga, who escaped unnoticed in an apple tree, visiting King Rinkitink who had fallen in a well, and surly talking donkey Bilbil embark on a quest to save the Pingareeans. Armed only with three magic pearls that imbue strength, invincibility, and wisdom, the three take on the open sea, the military might of the islands of Regos and Coregos, and the Nome King. (Summary by Scott Sherris) Narrated by : Robin, Kara Shallenberg, Ed Good, Julian Mackintosh, Cynthia Lyons, Joan Freeman, Kalynda, Kira Belkin, Melissa, Mark F. Smith and Sy. Cast of Characters : – King Kitticut (chapters 01-03, 17, 23 & 24) read by Muhammad Mussnoon – Prince Inga (chapters 01-08, 10, 13-16, 18, 21, 24) read by Henry Frigon – The White Pearl (chapters 01, 05, 08, 14 & 18) read by Alana Jordan – Rinkitink (chapters 02-08, 10, 13, 14, 16, 18, 19, 21-24) read by Angleet – Bilbil (chapters 02-08, 13, 14, 16, 19, 21 & 24) read by Chugosh – The Regos Warriors (chapters 03, 07 & 14) read by Padraig O’hIceadha – The Palace Maid (chapter 08) read by onemagdelen – Nikobob (chapters 09, 11 & 16) read by [Marion](http://librivox.org/sandpit/librivox_catalog – ) – Zella’s Mother (chapter 09) read by Ada Kerman – Queen Cor (chapters 10, 13, 15 & 17) read by Jennifer Lott – King Gos […]

Lost City

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Action & Adventure
Chapter: 32 | Listen: 4

Bruno and Waldo Gillespie are orphaned brothers living with the extremely eccentric Professor Phaeton Featherwit. One day they set off in one of the professor’s machines to investigate a tornado at close range and accidentally get sucked into it! They are then transported by the tornado and find themselves in a barren, uncharted wasteland wherein lies a city– a long lost Aztec city! Find out what happens next to the brothers and the professor in this harrowing and exhilarating adventure! Description by Kehinde [chương_files]

Fame and Fortune

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Action & Adventure, General Fiction
Chapter: 23 | Listen: 9

Richard Hunter, formerly Ragged Dick, continues to advance in the world through luck and excellent morals. He, along with his friend Henry, moves into a better boarding house and then finds a promising job. He is framed for theft by a jealous co-worker and ends up in jail. He is exonerated, given his job back, and then is promoted. He eventually works his way up the ladder and becomes quite successful. (Written by Alys Attewater and Barry Eads) [chương_files]

Glinda of Oz

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Action & Adventure, Children's Fiction
Chapter: 24 | Listen: 5

Glinda of Oz is the fourteenth Land of Oz book and is the last one written by the original author L. Frank Baum, although the series was continued after his death by several other authors. Dorothy and Ozma discover that a war is brewing in a distant and unexplored part of Oz, between two mysterious races, the Flatheads and the Skeezers. The girls set out to try to prevent the fighting, not knowing what dangers await them. (Summary by Lucy Perry.) [chương_files]

Little Masterpieces of Science – Explorers

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Exploration
Chapter: 7 | Listen: 8

“The love of adventure, the expectation of the unexpected, have ever prompted men stout of heart, and ready of resource, to brave the perils of wilderness and sea that they might set their feet where man never trod before.” (George Iles in the preface) This last in the series of Little Masterpieces of Science to be recorded for LibriVox includes essays by or about the explorations of Christopher Columbus, Lewis & Clark, Zebulon Pike, Charles Wilkes, Clarence King and John Wesley Powell. – Summary by J. M. Smallheer [chương_files]

Camp-Fire Girls at Twin Lakes or The Quest of a Summer Vacation

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Action & Adventure
Chapter: 30 | Listen: 8

“Girls, I have some great news for you. I’m sure you’ll be interested, and I hope you’ll be as delighted as I am. Come on, all of you. Gather around in a circle just as if we were going to have a Council Fire and I’ll tell you something that will—that will—Teddy Bear your teeth.” A chorus of laughter, just a little derisive, greeted Katherine Crane’s enigmatical figure of speech. The merriment came from eleven members of Flamingo Camp Fire, who proceeded to form an arc of a circle in front of the speaker on the hillside grass plot near the white canvas tents of the girls’ camp. (Gutenberg) [chương_files]

Treasure Island (version 2)

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Action & Adventure, Children's Fiction
Chapter: 17 | Listen: 9

A mysterious map, pirates, and pieces of eight! When young Jim Hawkins finds a map to pirates’ gold he starts on an adventure that takes him from his English village to a desert island with the murderous Black Dog, half-mad Ben Gunn, and (of course) Long John Silver. Arr Jim lad! R.L. Stevenson (1850-1894) was born in Scotland and travelled extensively in California and the south Pacific. (Summary by Adrian Praetzellis) [chương_files]