Daniel Boone by John S. C. Abbott ~ Full Audiobook [biography]

Classic Audiobook Collection

07/28/23

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480m

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Daniel Boone by John S. C. Abbott audiobook.

Genre: biography

John S. C. Abbott's Daniel Boone brings listeners into the raw, perilous world of early America through the life of its most enduring frontier figure. Beginning with Boone's youth on the edge of settlement, the narrative follows his growth into an expert woodsman, hunter, and trailblazer whose quiet resolve draws him ever deeper into the Appalachian wilderness. Abbott traces Boone's long journeys through forest and mountain, his encounters with rival traders and hostile raiding parties, and his complicated relationships with Native American nations as pressure from expanding colonies intensifies. As Boone helps carve routes into Kentucky and becomes a leader in isolated stations, everyday survival turns into a test of endurance and character: securing food, protecting families, navigating political uncertainty, and deciding when to fight, negotiate, or retreat. Written in a vivid, moral-inflected style typical of Abbott, the book explores how legends are made, how communities form at the margins, and what it costs to pursue freedom on a contested frontier. The result is a brisk, dramatic portrait of a man caught between wilderness and civilization.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 01

(00:42:33) Chapter 02

(01:36:50) Chapter 03

(01:57:52) Chapter 04

(02:27:13) Chapter 05

(02:55:56) Chapter 06

(03:27:32) Chapter 07

(04:11:44) Chapter 08

(04:51:46) Chapter 09

(05:21:02) Chapter 10

(05:49:01) Chapter 11

(06:20:45) Chapter 12

(06:51:40) Chapter 13

(07:31:51) Chapter 14

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Walpole by John Morley ~ Full Audiobook [biography]

July 27, 2023

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516m

Walpole by John Morley audiobook.

Genre: biography

John Morley turns his sharp, humane intelligence to the life of Horace Walpole - Whig politician, tireless letter-writer, connoisseur, and the restless wit who helped define the tone of 18th-century English society. Moving between Parliament and drawing room, Morley follows Walpole as he navigates patronage and party intrigue, cultivates a reputation for brilliant observation, and builds Strawberry Hill, the fanciful villa that mirrors his taste for the theatrical and the antique. Along the way, Morley explores the friendships and rivalries that shaped Walpole's world, the moral compromises of fashionable politics, and the private anxieties behind a public pose of amused detachment. Walpole emerges as both witness and participant: a man who records his age with unmatched sparkle even as he struggles to commit himself to anything beyond style, caution, and control. Rich in historical atmosphere and literary insight, this is a portrait of personality set against a Britain of empire, scandal, and change - and a study of how wit can illuminate a century while also shielding a life.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 01

(00:32:41) Chapter 02

(01:18:11) Chapter 03

(01:58:40) Chapter 04

(02:48:05) Chapter 05

(03:24:54) Chapter 06

(04:35:12) Chapter 07

(05:02:43) Chapter 08

(05:31:07) Chapter 09

(06:04:47) Chapter 10

(06:37:38) Chapter 11

(07:22:57) Chapter 12

(07:49:08) Chapter 13

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Twixt Land and Sea by Joseph Conrad ~ Full Audiobook [adventure]

July 28, 2023

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429m

Twixt Land and Sea by Joseph Conrad audiobook.

Genre: adventure

While the central figures in each of the three stories in this collection are sailing captains, the main action in two of them takes place on land, albeit in sight of the sea. In 'A Smile of Fortune', a naive young sea captain falls into grave moral peril when he locks horns with a wily ship chandler in Mauritius. In 'The Secret Sharer', a newly appointed sea captain is confronted with an altogether different kind of challenge when he attempts to haul in a rope ladder over his ship's side one evening and finds it much heavier than usual. In 'Freya of the Seven Isles', Jasper Allen, the captain of a lovely little brig, floats on a cloud of love, expecting soon to marry Freya, the daughter of an East Indies plantation owner, and not taking seriously the pretentions of an older Dutch naval officer who sees himself as Jasper's rival. The depth of psychological insight in these stories is variable, but each is a gripping and suspenseful example of Conrad's magazine fiction in the years immediately preceding the Great War.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 01

(00:04:06) Chapter 02

(00:22:09) Chapter 03

(00:39:44) Chapter 04

(00:55:41) Chapter 05

(01:26:51) Chapter 06

(02:03:10) Chapter 07

(02:35:44) Chapter 08

(03:20:13) Chapter 09

(04:08:36) Chapter 10