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Here’s a fun, and approximately antipodean, compliment to Jack London’s stupendous novel The Call Of The Wild. Set in 1880s South Africa, it is a set of semi-fictional stories about an English Staffordshire Bull Terrier named Jock. According to a… Read moreLibriVox: Jock of the Bushveld by Sir Percy Fitzpatrick
I like it when SFFaudio gets cited on Wikipedia. One of the citations there is a point I made about The Green Odyssey |READ OUR REVIEW| and the Dungeons & Dragons module Dragonlance: DL6 Dragons of Ice. I compared The… Read moreLibriVox.org: Around The World In Eighty Days by Jules Verne
If you’re just a poor boy you’ll appreciate this monstrosity sized FREE audiobook from LibriVox. From the author of Captain Blood and The Sea Hawk comes part of the inspiration for Queen’s Bohemian Rhapsody: Scaramouche by Rafael Sabatini! If nothing… Read moreLibriVox: Scaramouche by Rafael Sabatini
Speaking of Sir Walter Scott and Ivanhoe… I’ve been much into Sir Walter Scott’s Ivanhoe over the last six months. I’ve watched three different video adaptations. One was a theatrical version from the 1950s, one was a TV movie from… Read moreCommentary: Sir Walter Scott’s Ivanhoe
Skybreaker By Kenneth Oppel; Read by a full cast 10 CDs – 11.5 Hours [UNABRIDGED] Publisher: Full Cast Audio Published: 2008 ISBN: 9781934180150 Themes: / Fantasy / Airships / Adventure / Parallel World / Romance / Alternate History / Zoology… Read moreReview of Skybreaker by Kenneth Oppel
Strange Maps is a fun blog (and now a book) by Frank Jacobs. Here is a smidgen of the proprietor’s post on Treasure Island: “…was there a real-life model for the generically named Treasure Island – and if so, where… Read moreLibriVox: Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson