Classic Adventure Audiobooks: Lost Worlds, Treasure Hunts & Survival Stories

https://www.theforbiddenknowledgenetwork.com There comes a time in the course of battle when a participant casts his fate to the gods of war, and carries on without question, the task at hand. Living, dying, right or wrong, can be contemplated later. Author: Stephen Crane Length: 4 hours 45 minutes Genre: War & Military Fiction Chapters: 00:00 - Chapter 1 22:33 - Chapter 2 40:09 - Chapter 3 58...

https://www.theforbiddenknowledgenetwork.com Murder and madness, witches and war: Librivox presents a recording of <em>Macbeth</em>, perhaps Shakespeare's best known tragedy. Macbeth, a general in King Duncan's army, is given a prophecy by a trio of witches: he himself will become king. Author: William Shakespeare Length: 2 hours 11 minutes Genre: Tragedy Chapters: 00:00 - Chapter 1 03...

https://www.theforbiddenknowledgenetwork.com Theodore Dreiser (1871-1945) was an American author of the naturalist school, known for dealing with the gritty reality of life. Sister Carrie (1900) is his first novel and tells the story of a young country girl who moves to the big city (Chicago) where she starts realizing her own American Dream by first becoming a mistress to powerful men and later a...

https://www.theforbiddenknowledgenetwork.com Banished from his own lands by a usurping brother, Prospero and his daughter Miranda have been living on a deserted island for years, until fate brings the brother within the range of Prospero's powers. Will he seek revenge, or reconcilement. Author: William Shakespeare Length: 1 hours 55 minutes Genre: Plays, Comedy Chapters: 00:00 - Chapter 1 01:32 -...

https://www.theforbiddenknowledgenetwork.com The Aeneid is a Latin epic written by Virgil in the 1st century BC that tells the legendary story of Aeneas, a Trojan who traveled to Italy, where he became the ancestor of the Romans. The first six of the poem's twelve books tell the story of Aeneas' wanderings from Troy to Italy, and the poem's second half treats the Trojans' ultimately victorious war...

https://www.theforbiddenknowledgenetwork.com Join three intrepid explorers as they seek to cross and explore the continent of Africa from Indian Ocean to Atlantic Ocean, except they're doing it by hot air balloon. Scholar and scientist Samuel Ferguson, his manservant Joe, and his friend Richard "Dick" Kennedy engage in this mighty scientific feat, as they face danger after danger, enjoy adventure...

https://www.theforbiddenknowledgenetwork.com An American Robinson Crusoe is a short version of the original story. An indolent, rebellious teen goes on a marine voyage against his parents' wishes. Author: Samuel B. Allison Length: 3 hours 15 minutes Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction, General Fiction Chapters: 00:00 - Chapter 1 14:09 - Chapter 2 30:06 - Chapter 3 48:57 - Chapter 4 01:06:27 - Ch...

https://www.theforbiddenknowledgenetwork.com Imagine a strange, tropical place that is almost inaccessible. Time appears to have stood still there. Author: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Length: 8 hours 22 minutes Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction, Fantasy Fiction Chapters: 00:00 - Chapter 1 15:05 - Chapter 2 31:53 - Chapter 3 49:14 - Chapter 4 01:27:07 - Chapter 5 01:58:01 - Chapter 6 02:20:49 - Chap...

https://www.theforbiddenknowledgenetwork.com The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, better known as The Pickwick Papers, is the first novel by Charles Dickens. Written for publication as a serial, The Pickwick Papers consists of a sequence of loosely-related adventures. Author: Charles Dickens Length: 32 hours 0 minutes Genre: Satire Chapters: 00:00 - Chapter 1 14:49 - Chapter 2 01:21:35 - Ch...

https://www.theforbiddenknowledgenetwork.com The action takes place in London, with excursions to Devon, Yorkshire, and Portsmouth, as we follow the adventures of the eponymous hero. Nicholas is forced to unwelcome employment to help secure support for his widowed mother and his sister from their mercenary relative Ralph, on whose mercy they have been thrown. Author: Charles Dickens Length: 33 hou...

https://www.theforbiddenknowledgenetwork.com This is a short novel published in 1895 and based vaguely on the battle of Chancellorsville of the American Civil War. Unlike other works on the subject, Crane's novel does not concentrate on the big picture or the glory of war but on the psychology of one of its soldiers. Author: Stephen Crane Length: 4 hours 55 minutes Genre: War & Military Fictio...

https://www.theforbiddenknowledgenetwork.com <i>Around the World in Eighty Days</i> (French: <i>Le tour du monde en quatre-vingts jours</i>) is a classic adventure novel by the French writer Jules Verne, first published in 1873. In the story, Phileas Fogg of London and his newly-employed French valet Passepartout attempt to circumnavigate the world in 80 days on a 20,000 wa...

https://www.theforbiddenknowledgenetwork.com <i>White Fang</i> (1906) was written as a companion to Jack London's successful <a href="http://librivox. org/call-of-the-wild-by-jack-london/"><i>Call of the Wild</i></a> (1903). Author: Jack London Length: 8 hours 28 minutes Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction, Nature & Animal Fiction Chapters: 00:00 - Chapter...

https://www.theforbiddenknowledgenetwork.com Daniel Defoe's <i>The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe of York, Mariner</i> (1719) is considered by many the first English novel. Based on the real-life experiences of the castaway Alexander Selkirk, the book has had a perennial appeal among readers of all ages--especially the young adult reading public--who continue...

https://www.theforbiddenknowledgenetwork.com Few things, even in literature, can really be said to be unique - but Moby Dick is truly unlike anything written before or since. The novel is nominally about the obsessive hunt by the crazed Captain Ahab of the book's eponymous white whale. Author: Herman Melville Length: 24 hours 37 minutes Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction, Nautical & Marine...

https://www.theforbiddenknowledgenetwork.com Enigmatic Phileas Fogg accepts a wager about whether it's possible to circumnavigate the globe in 80 days or under. The book charts his adventures on the way. Author: Jules Verne Length: 6 hours 33 minutes Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction Chapters: 00:00 - Chapter 1 27:27 - Chapter 2 47:23 - Chapter 3 01:08:15 - Chapter 4 01:32:30 - Chapter 5 01:56...

https://www.theforbiddenknowledgenetwork.com Typee is Herman Melville's first book, recounting his experiences after having jumped ship in the Marquesas Islands in 1842, and becoming a captive of a cannibal island tribe. It was an immediate success in America and England, and was Melville's most popular work during his lifetime. Author: Herman Melville Length: 11 hours 42 minutes Genre: Action &am...

https://www.theforbiddenknowledgenetwork.com The Lost World is a 1912 novel by Arthur Conan Doyle concerning an expedition to a plateau (native name is Tepuyes) in South America (Venezuela) where prehistoric animals (dinosaurs and other extinct creatures) still survive. The character of Professor Challenger was introduced in this book. Author: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Length: 8 hours 0 minutes Genre...