Classic Adventure Audiobooks: Lost Worlds, Treasure Hunts & Survival Stories
A growing collection of public domain adventure audiobooks, featuring lost worlds, dangerous expeditions, treasure hunts, survival stories, sea voyages, and exploration narratives. The archive includes hidden civilizations, mysterious islands, forgotten jungles, pirate adventures, and influential adventure novels that shaped storytelling. Each audiobook is selected for immersive long-form listening, with new recordings and restored editions added regularly. Ideal for fans of exploration, discovery, and classic adventure fiction.
Episodes
🟡 Card (Full Audiobook) | Arnold Bennett
The 'Card' in question is Edward Henry Machin - His mother called him 'Denry'. This light-hearted story is of his rise from humble beginnings as the son of a washerwoman and sempstress in the last quarter of the nineteenth century, in the pottery towns (which Arnold Bennett christened 'The Five Towns') of the English Midlands; how, by his own wits, enterprise and 'nerve' he rose to wealth, married
🟡 Penguin Island (Full Audiobook) | Anatole France
The novel (original French title -- L'le des Pingouins) is a satire on human nature. The first publication was in 1908.Author: Anatole FranceLength: 9 hours 4 minutesGenre: SatireChapters:00:00 - Chapter 103:30 - Chapter 213:13 - Chapter 320:06 - Chapter 426:06 - Chapter 532:30 - Chapter 651:06 - Chapter 701:01:55 - Chapter 801:05:39 - Chapter 901:16:30 - Chapter 1001:18:21 - Chapter 1101:26:59 -
🟡 Tragedy of King Lear (Alternative Reading) (Full Audiobook) | William Shakespeare
Known for its heartrending emotion and shocking violence, <i>The Tragedy of King Lear</i> is seen as one of Shakespeare's towering masterpieces. It tells the tale of the ageing King Lear, a British monarch who disposes of his vast kingdom by giving bequests to his two eldest daughters when they flatter his vanity.Author: William ShakespeareLength: 3 hours 43 minutesGenre: TragedyChapte
🟡 Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Alternative Reading) (Full Audiobook) | Mark Twain - Part 2 of 2
Part 2 of 2.\n\nFollow the young boy Huckleberry Finn and the slave Jim on their epic journey down the Mississippi River in the years before the Civil War. This masterpiece by Mark Twain is a delightful mixture of exciting adventures, sad mishaps, floods, lazy days floating on the raft, conniving con men and human beings in their most bewildering variety.Author: Mark TwainLength: 11 hours 19 minut
🟡 Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Alternative Reading) (Full Audiobook) | Mark Twain - Part 1 of 2
Part 1 of 2.\n\nFollow the young boy Huckleberry Finn and the slave Jim on their epic journey down the Mississippi River in the years before the Civil War. This masterpiece by Mark Twain is a delightful mixture of exciting adventures, sad mishaps, floods, lazy days floating on the raft, conniving con men and human beings in their most bewildering variety.Author: Mark TwainLength: 11 hours 19 minut
🟡 Journey to the Centre of the Earth (Full Audiobook) | Jules Verne - Part 2 of 2
Part 2 of 2.\n\nThe story involves a German professor (Otto Lidenbrock in the original French, Professor Von Hardwigg in the most common English translation) who believes there are volcanic tubes going toward the center of the Earth. He, his nephew Axel (Harry), and their guide Hans encounter many adventures, including prehistoric animals and natural hazards, eventually coming to the surface again
🟡 Journey to the Centre of the Earth (Full Audiobook) | Jules Verne - Part 1 of 2
Part 1 of 2.\n\nThe story involves a German professor (Otto Lidenbrock in the original French, Professor Von Hardwigg in the most common English translation) who believes there are volcanic tubes going toward the center of the Earth. He, his nephew Axel (Harry), and their guide Hans encounter many adventures, including prehistoric animals and natural hazards, eventually coming to the surface again
🟡 Moby Dick; or, The Whale (Alternative Reading) (Full Audiobook) | Herman Melville - Part 3 of 3
Part 3 of 3.\n\nThis great, genre-bending novel nominally centres on the quest of the monomaniacal Captain Ahab to gain revenge for the loss of his leg to an apparently malicious white sperm whale known in the fishery as Moby Dick. At times the compulsive and bombastic Captain Ahab sounds more like a figure from grand guignol than a reincarnated Lear, and listeners may find themselves wondering if
🟡 Moby Dick; or, The Whale (Alternative Reading) (Full Audiobook) | Herman Melville - Part 2 of 3
Part 2 of 3.\n\nThis great, genre-bending novel nominally centres on the quest of the monomaniacal Captain Ahab to gain revenge for the loss of his leg to an apparently malicious white sperm whale known in the fishery as Moby Dick. At times the compulsive and bombastic Captain Ahab sounds more like a figure from grand guignol than a reincarnated Lear, and listeners may find themselves wondering if
🟡 Moby Dick; or, The Whale (Alternative Reading) (Full Audiobook) | Herman Melville - Part 1 of 3
Part 1 of 3.\n\nThis great, genre-bending novel nominally centres on the quest of the monomaniacal Captain Ahab to gain revenge for the loss of his leg to an apparently malicious white sperm whale known in the fishery as Moby Dick. At times the compulsive and bombastic Captain Ahab sounds more like a figure from grand guignol than a reincarnated Lear, and listeners may find themselves wondering if
🟡 Journey into the Interior of the Earth (Alternative Reading) (Full Audiobook) | Jules Verne
A German scientist discovers an ancient runic message, which when translated proves to be a map to the center of a hollow Earth. The professor and his nephew then embark on a dangerous adventure down an Icelandic volcano to explore an unknown world in the interior of the Earth.Author: Jules VerneLength: 8 hours 7 minutesGenre: Action & Adventure Fiction, Fantastic Fiction, Fantasy FictionChapt
🟡 Brown Wolf and Other Jack London Stories (Full Audiobook) | Jack London
These 12 stories were chosen and edited by Franklin K. Mathiews, Chief Scout Librarian of the Boy Scouts of America, "to exercise both the boy's mind and conscience; that seeing and feeling life and nature as Jack London saw and felt it-the best and the worst in human nature, with the Infinite always near and from whom there is no escape-seeing and feeling such things boys will develop the em
🟡 Survivors of the Chancellor (Full Audiobook) | Jules Verne
The Survivors of the Chancellor is a poignant and tragic tale of terror and intrigue on the high seas. Through raging storms, emaciating hunger and thirst, shipwreck and mutiny...follow the passengers of The Chancellor as they descend from one layer of hell to the next; never knowing if they will live another day.Author: Jules VerneLength: 5 hours 2 minutesGenre: Action & Adventure FictionChap
🟡 Oliver Twist (Alternative Reading) (Full Audiobook) | Charles Dickens - Part 2 of 2
Part 2 of 2.\n\nWhen orphaned Oliver Twist asks for more food, the workhouse board are horrified and immediately pack him off to work for an undertaker, who treats him badly. Oliver runs away and finds himself in the streets of London, where he meets the Artful Dodger and is lured into a gang of young pickpockets, led by the evil Fagin.Author: Charles DickensLength: 15 hours 39 minutesGenre: Drama
🟡 Oliver Twist (Alternative Reading) (Full Audiobook) | Charles Dickens - Part 1 of 2
Part 1 of 2.\n\nWhen orphaned Oliver Twist asks for more food, the workhouse board are horrified and immediately pack him off to work for an undertaker, who treats him badly. Oliver runs away and finds himself in the streets of London, where he meets the Artful Dodger and is lured into a gang of young pickpockets, led by the evil Fagin.Author: Charles DickensLength: 15 hours 39 minutesGenre: Drama
🟡 Prince and the Pauper (Alternative Reading) (Full Audiobook) | Mark Twain
One day a poor boy, Tom, gets a little too near the gates of the palace. and the guards start to beat him.Author: Mark TwainLength: 7 hours 41 minutesGenre: Action & AdventureChapters:00:00 - Chapter 102:32 - Chapter 213:02 - Chapter 326:33 - Chapter 436:19 - Chapter 552:09 - Chapter 601:08:24 - Chapter 701:19:09 - Chapter 801:25:58 - Chapter 901:33:43 - Chapter 1001:58:44 - Chapter 1102:11:36
🟡 Call of the Wild (Alternative Reading) (Full Audiobook) | Jack London
The Call of the Wild is a novel by Jack London published in 1903. The story is set in the Yukon during the 1890s Klondike Gold Rush-a period in which strong sled dogs were in high demand.Author: Jack LondonLength: 3 hours 50 minutesGenre: Action & Adventure FictionChapters:00:00 - Chapter 126:31 - Chapter 251:16 - Chapter 301:29:10 - Chapter 401:52:01 - Chapter 502:30:21 - Chapter 603:05:22 -
🟡 Treasure Island (Alternative Reading) (Full Audiobook) | Robert Louis Stevenson
This is the extraordinary tale of a boy, Jim Hawkins, who comes into possession of Captain Flint's treasure map, after a buccaneer takes a room at his inn and later dies. The map spreads its ill luck to all who know of it.Author: Robert Louis StevensonLength: 7 hours 34 minutesGenre: Action & Adventure Fiction, Nautical & Marine FictionChapters:00:00 - Chapter 115:52 - Chapter 230:51 - Cha
🟡 Lysistrata (Full Audiobook) | Aristophanes
Lysistrata read by a group of college students. First performed in classical Athens c.Author: AristophanesLength: 1 hours 17 minutesGenre: Classics (Greek & Latin Antiquity), ComedyChapters:00:00 - Chapter 150:10 - Chapter 201:40:20 - Chapter 302:08:03 - Chapter 4#FullAudiobook #ClassicAudiobook #ClassicLiterature #FreeAudiobook #PublicDomain This audiobook recording is from LibriVox.org.All L
🟡 Call of the Wild (Alternate Reading) (Full Audiobook) | Jack London
https://thefreeaudiobooklibrary.comThis is the story of Buck, dog napped from sunny California to snowy Arctic during the Alaska gold rush. This deservedly famous book has been already recorded by LibriVox and downloaded more than 100,000 times.Author: Jack LondonLength: 3 hours 34 minutesGenre: Action & Adventure Fiction, Nature & Animal FictionChapters:00:00 — Chapter 125:07 — Chapter 24
🟡 Those Extraordinary Twins (Full Audiobook) | Mark Twain
https://www.theforbiddenknowledgenetwork.com "Those Extraordinary Twins" was published as a short story, separate and distinct from its origins inside Twain's "The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson". As Twain explains, he extricated "Twins" from "Pudd'nhead" when he found, as he was writing, that he'd created a farce inside a tragedy. Author: Mark Twain Length: 2 hours 14 minutes Genre: Humorous Fictio
🟡 Oliver Twist (Alternate Reading) (Full Audiobook) | Charles Dickens
https://www.theforbiddenknowledgenetwork.com Oliver Twist; or, The Parish Boy's Progress is the second novel by English author Charles Dickens, published by Richard Bentley in 1838. The story is about an orphan Oliver Twist, who endures a miserable existence in a workhouse and then is placed with an undertaker. Author: Charles Dickens Length: 17 hours 28 minutes Genre: General Fiction Chapters: 00
🟡 Omoo: A Narrative of Adventures in the South Seas (Full Audiobook) | Herman Melville
https://www.theforbiddenknowledgenetwork.com <i>Omoo: A Narrative of Adventures in the South Seas</i> is Herman Melville's sequel to <i>Typee</i>, and, as such, was also autobiographical. After leaving Nuku Hiva, the main character ships aboard a whaling vessel which makes its way to Tahiti, after which there is a mutiny and the majority of the crew are imprisoned on Tahiti
🟡 Benito Cereno (Full Audiobook) | Herman Melville
https://www.theforbiddenknowledgenetwork.com On an island off the coast of Chile, Captain Amaso Delano, sailing an American sealer, sees the San Dominick, a Spanish slave ship, in obvious distress. Capt. Author: Herman Melville Length: 3 hours 53 minutes Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction, Literary Fiction, Nautical & Marine Fiction Chapters: 00:00 - Chapter 1 10:35 - Chapter 2 28:16 - Chap
🟡 Iliad of Homer (Full Audiobook) | Homer
https://www.theforbiddenknowledgenetwork.com "The Iliad is an epic poem in dactylic hexameters, traditionally attributed to Homer. Set in the Trojan War, the ten-year siege of Ilium, by a coalition of Greek States, it tells of the battles and events during the weeks of a quarrel between King Agamemnon and the warrior Achilles. Author: Homer Length: 15 hours 40 minutes Genre: Classics (Greek &
🟡 Around the World in Eighty Days (Alternate Reading) (Full Audiobook) | Jules Verne
https://www.theforbiddenknowledgenetwork.com Around the World in Eighty Days (French: Le tour du monde en quatre-vingts jours) 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 wager set by his friends at the Reform C
🟡 Doctor Ox’s Experiment (Full Audiobook) | Jules Verne
https://www.theforbiddenknowledgenetwork.com An early, light-hearted short story, published in 1872 by Jules Verne. It takes place in the Flemish town of Quiquendone, where life moves at an extraordinarily tranquil pace. Author: Jules Verne Length: 2 hours 12 minutes Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction, Fantastic Fiction, Humorous Fiction Chapters: 00:00 - Chapter 1 24:08 - Chapter 2 53:07 - Cha
🟡 Red Badge of Courage; An Episode of the American Civil War (Full Audiobook) | Stephen Crane
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
🟡 Tragedy of Macbeth (Full Audiobook) | William Shakespeare
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
🟡 Tempest (Full Audiobook) | William Shakespeare
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 -
🟡 Aeneid (Full Audiobook) | Virgil
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
🟡 Five Weeks in a Balloon (Full Audiobook) | Jules Verne
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
🟡 American Robinson Crusoe (Full Audiobook) | Samuel B. Allison
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
🟡 Lost World (Alternate Reading) (Full Audiobook) | Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
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
🟡 Red Badge of Courage (Full Audiobook) | Stephen Crane
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
🟡 Around the World in Eighty Days (Full Audiobook) | Jules Verne
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
🟡 White Fang (Full Audiobook) | Jack London
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
🟡 Robinson Crusoe (Full Audiobook) | Daniel Defoe
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
🟡 Around the World in Eighty Days (Alternate Reading) (Full Audiobook) | Jules Verne
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
🟡 Typee (Full Audiobook) | Herman Melville
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
🟡 Lost World (Full Audiobook) | Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
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
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