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