Great free Nautical stories

[Bruce Kissinger]

I've been doing a lot of travel for work and have started listening to free audio books from www.librivox.org. They have some great nautical stories including:

1) Eric the Red's Saga - http://librivox.org/the-saga-of-eirik-the-red-by-anonymous/

2) The Cruise of the Snark by Jack London - http://librivox.org/the-cruise-of-the-snark-by-jack-london/

3) Sailing Alone Around the World by Joshua Slocum - http://librivox.org/sailing-alone-around-the-world-by-joshua-slocum/

[Captain Intrepid]

Yes! I'm actually in the middle of listening to Moby Dick from them. Oh man it's a long and rambling story. If I wasn't listening to someone else read it I probably would have given up and given it to someone I didn't like.

It's got some great writing in it, but Herman Mellville should have done what Tolkien did and put all the lengthy tangents he went on in the back as appendixes. They're fascinating, but they distract much from the continuity of the actual story.

[Quidam1947]

Yes! I'm actually in the middle of listening to Moby Dick from them. Oh man it's a long and rambling story. If I wasn't listening to someone else read it I probably would have given up and given it to someone I didn't like.

It's got some great writing in it, but Herman Mellville should have done what Tolkien did and put all the lengthy tangents he went on in the back as appendixes. They're fascinating, but they distract much from the continuity of the actual story.


"Now, three to three, ye stand. Commend the murderous chalices! Bestow them, ye who are now made parties to this indissoluble league.... Drink, ye harpooneers! drink and swear, ye men that man the deathful whaleboat's bow -- Death to Moby Dick! God hunt us all, if we do not hunt Moby Dick to his death!"

Hopefully the person recorded, makes this sound as good as I did in my head when I read it as a kid - :)

I'll have to check out the library. Thanks Bruce.