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