[sushieater]

Any recommendations on good Seamanship/sailing audiobooks?

Listened to these recently.

Sailing Alone Around the World: Joshua Slocum
Treasure Island
Captain Blood by Rafael Sabatini

Thanks

 

[manatee]

If you have a device with text-to-speech capability, you can download free text files at Project Gutenberg . They also have some audiobooks, of -----variable----- quality.

LibriVox is a good audiobooks source --
'Snark' is great fun -- Cruise of the Snark.

...and lots of audio & texts here -- Internet Archive

 

[travlin-easy]

Any doc file you copy to a Kindle Fire HD can be an audio reader as well. I just converted a PDF book to a doc file and it worked perfectly. The conversion can be online from several free sources.

Gary

 

[sushieater]

I like to listen to audiobooks on roadtrips, but the text to speech books tend not to keep me captivated after awhile.

I got fairly bored of Cruise of the Snark. I made my way through it and it had lot's of interesting moments, but I found myself struggling at times.

I've been looking through Librivox. Any recommendations appreciated.

thanks

 

[mstern]

Good Old Boat magazine maintains a nice catalogue of possibilities

AudioSeaStories.com

 

[manatee]

Maybe these?

http://www.archive.org/download//mainewoods_1407_librivox/mainewoods_1407_librivox_64kb_mp3.zip

http://www.archive.org/download/twoyearsmast_1306_librivox/twoyearsmast_1306_librivox_64kb_mp3.zip

http://www.archive.org/download/cap...captains_courageous_mfs_librivox_64kb_mp3.zip

http://www.archive.org/download/rid...ox/riddle_sands_ge_0904_librivox_64kb_mp3.zip

http://librivox.org/faery-lands-of-the-south-seas/

http://librivox.org/the-mutiny-of-the-bounty-and-other-narratives-by-william-bligh/

ETA: The first, and still one of the best, sea adventures of european literature:
The Odyssey