Librivox

I listen to books on librivox.  Most of the readers are adequate, but, oh, my are some HORRIBLE!  There is one woman, a non-native English speaker, whose English sounds like it’s excellent…in person.  But as a narrator?  Nope.  Just, no.  In at least every other sentence, she mispronounces a word.  At least one per paragraph makes me have to pause to figure out what it was.  I can get used to all Vs pronounced W.  Rs swallowed, stuff like that.  But boding isn’t bodding.   Bough is bouw, not boug.

I can not recommend Search for the Castaways, by Jules Berne.  

Librivox absolutely refuses to do any curation.

Map of the Nautilus

 My estimate of the route of the Nautilus in Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Seas.

Pink pins are the latitudes and and longitude coordinates mentioned in the book.

Purple pins are my estimates of where the Nautilus is based in descriptions.

Green pins are suggestions of the route taken between points avoid land masses.

Teal pins are when only one coordinate is given, and I guessed at the other.

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