A Book of Discovery
M. B. Synge
Gelesen von Kristine Bekere





Telling the history of geographical discoveries, "Book of Discovery" is a record of splendid endurance, of hardships bravely borne, of silent toil, of courage and resolution unequalled in the annals of mankind, of self-sacrifice unrivalled and faithful lives laid ungrudgingly down. Of the many who went forth, the few only attained. It is of these few that this book tells. (From the Preface of the book). (16 hr 29 min)
Kapitel
Introduction | 12:19 | Gelesen von Kristine Bekere |
A Little Old World | 14:53 | Gelesen von Kristine Bekere |
Early Mariners | 16:58 | Gelesen von Kristine Bekere |
Is the World Flat | 12:15 | Gelesen von Kristine Bekere |
Herodotus—the Traveller | 15:42 | Gelesen von Kristine Bekere |
Alexander the Great Explores India | 25:41 | Gelesen von Kristine Bekere |
Pytheas Finds the British Isles | 10:57 | Gelesen von Kristine Bekere |
Julius Caesar as Explorer | 13:14 | Gelesen von Kristine Bekere |
Strabo's Geography | 10:19 | Gelesen von Kristine Bekere |
The Roman Empire and Pliny | 10:46 | Gelesen von Kristine Bekere |
Ptolemy's Maps | 5:23 | Gelesen von Kristine Bekere |
Pilgrim Travellers | 9:40 | Gelesen von Kristine Bekere |
Irish Explorers | 9:33 | Gelesen von Kristine Bekere |
After Mohammed | 8:28 | Gelesen von Kristine Bekere |
The Vikings Sail the Northern Seas | 9:44 | Gelesen von Kristine Bekere |
Arab Wayfarers | 17:23 | Gelesen von Kristine Bekere |
Travellers to the East | 14:07 | Gelesen von Kristine Bekere |
Marco Polo | 18:51 | Gelesen von Kristine Bekere |
The End of Mediaeval Exploration | 12:40 | Gelesen von Kristine Bekere |
Mediaeval Maps | 5:36 | Gelesen von Kristine Bekere |
Prince Henry of Portugal | 19:54 | Gelesen von Kristine Bekere |
Bartholomew Diaz Reaches the Stormy Cape | 8:34 | Gelesen von Kristine Bekere |
Christopher Columbus | 14:47 | Gelesen von Kristine Bekere |
A Great New World | 11:25 | Gelesen von Kristine Bekere |
Vasco da Gama Reaches India | 14:10 | Gelesen von Kristine Bekere |
Discovery of the Spice Islands | 16:54 | Gelesen von Kristine Bekere |
Balboa Sees the Pacific Ocean | 9:32 | Gelesen von Kristine Bekere |
Magellan Sails Round the World | 16:49 | Gelesen von Kristine Bekere |
Cortes Explores and Conquers Mexico | 18:25 | Gelesen von Kristine Bekere |
Explorers in South America | 15:22 | Gelesen von Kristine Bekere |
Cabot Sails to Newfoundland | 6:52 | Gelesen von Kristine Bekere |
Jacques Cartier Explores Canada | 11:05 | Gelesen von Kristine Bekere |
Search For a North-West Passage | 14:30 | Gelesen von Kristine Bekere |
Frobisher Searches for a North-West Passage | 5:56 | Gelesen von Kristine Bekere |
Drake's Famous Voyage Round the World | 18:08 | Gelesen von Kristine Bekere |
Davis Straight | 11:59 | Gelesen von Kristine Bekere |
Barents Sails to Spitzbergen | 13:56 | Gelesen von Kristine Bekere |
Hudson Finds His Bay | 13:14 | Gelesen von Kristine Bekere |
Baffin Finds His Bay | 7:59 | Gelesen von Kristine Bekere |
Sir Walter Raleigh Searches for El Dorado | 8:12 | Gelesen von Kristine Bekere |
Champlain Discovers Lake Ontario | 9:56 | Gelesen von Kristine Bekere |
Early Discoverers of Australia | 10:21 | Gelesen von Kristine Bekere |
Tasman Finds Tasmania | 6:19 | Gelesen von Kristine Bekere |
Dampier Discovers His Straight | 10:58 | Gelesen von Kristine Bekere |
Behring Finds His Straight | 13:04 | Gelesen von Kristine Bekere |
Cook Discovers New Zealand | 19:27 | Gelesen von Kristine Bekere |
Cook's Third Voyage and Death | 18:11 | Gelesen von Kristine Bekere |
Bruce's Travels in Abyssinia | 18:28 | Gelesen von Kristine Bekere |
Mungo Park and the Niger | 18:15 | Gelesen von Kristine Bekere |
Vancouver Discovers His Island | 8:46 | Gelesen von Kristine Bekere |
Mackenzie and His River | 4:41 | Gelesen von Kristine Bekere |
Parry Discovers Lancaster Sound | 12:51 | Gelesen von Kristine Bekere |
The Frozen North | 17:43 | Gelesen von Kristine Bekere |
Franklin's Land Voyage to the North | 9:57 | Gelesen von Kristine Bekere |
Parry's Polar Voyage | 6:01 | Gelesen von Kristine Bekere |
The Search for Timbuktu | 13:59 | Gelesen von Kristine Bekere |
Landers Discover the Mouth of the Niger | 6:57 | Gelesen von Kristine Bekere |
Ross Discovers the North Magnetic Pole | 13:17 | Gelesen von Kristine Bekere |
Flinders Names Australia | 18:01 | Gelesen von Kristine Bekere |
Sturt's Discoveries in Australia | 15:51 | Gelesen von Kristine Bekere |
Ross Makes Discoveries in the Antarctic Seas | 8:00 | Gelesen von Kristine Bekere |
Franklin Discovers the North-West Passage | 13:58 | Gelesen von Kristine Bekere |
David Livingstone | 18:23 | Gelesen von Kristine Bekere |
Burton and Speke in Central Africa | 10:49 | Gelesen von Kristine Bekere |
Livingston Traces Lakes Shirwa and Nyassa | 7:48 | Gelesen von Kristine Bekere |
Expedition to Victoria Nyanza | 12:16 | Gelesen von Kristine Bekere |
Baker Finds Albert Nyanza | 11:55 | Gelesen von Kristine Bekere |
Livingstone's Last Journey | 19:00 | Gelesen von Kristine Bekere |
Through the Dark Continent | 25:49 | Gelesen von Kristine Bekere |
Nordenskiold Finds North-East Passage | 17:57 | Gelesen von Kristine Bekere |
The Exploration of Tibet | 19:04 | Gelesen von Kristine Bekere |
Nansen Reaches Farthest North | 17:21 | Gelesen von Kristine Bekere |
Peary Reaches the North Pole | 11:39 | Gelesen von Kristine Bekere |
The Quest for the South Pole | 19:19 | Gelesen von Kristine Bekere |
Dates of Chief Events | 11:10 | Gelesen von Kristine Bekere |
Bewertungen
The reader is fine





NPC
I don’t know why everyone is complaining. The reader’s accent it totally fine and understandable. Thanks for volunteering, appreciate your work. I also listened to a few of the others this reader does, all good.
cannot understand narrator





A LibriVox Listener
I had to concentrate so hard to understand the narrator that I lost comprehension of the story. Every couple sentences there was a word I could not understand but would have to guess using context clues. By the that part she far into the next sentence. I gave up after the first chapter.
delightful summary of so many adventures





Elizabeth
The reader's accent gives this history an exotic feel of mystery. Well read. Thank you





Kimmi Larb
i cant imagine listening to a book about the travel and the world and not realizing people from all over speak different languages. if you can do better please step up. for the rest of us who have been where she is reading about, thanks for this.
its the best book on dìscovery





Brainiac
Hard to understand





Roughout
Between my poor hearing and the readers accent there is too many words and concepts I can't understand.





A LibriVox Listener
As noted by others she is difficult to understand at times do to accent.





Garry Hare
this women should not be reading English. Come on stop wasting people's time