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