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Author(s): Simon, Ted
Reader(s): Degas, Rupert; Simon, Ted
Label: Naxos AudioBooks
Genre: Non-Fiction
Period: Contemporary
Catalogue No: NA0239
Barcode: 9781843799900
Release Date: 01/2015
SIMON, T.: Jupiter's Travels (Unabridged)
Tracklist
Disc 1
Simon, Ted - Author
Simon, Ted (Reader)
Degas, Rupert (Reader)
Degas, Rupert (Reader)
|  | 1 | Introduction by Ted Simon | 03:47 |
Simon, Ted (Reader)
| | 2 | Jupiter's Travels | 09:09 |
Degas, Rupert (Reader)
| | 3 | And they brought on the dancing girls. | 09:51 |
Degas, Rupert (Reader)
| | 4 | Chapter Two: Trouble with Mars | 08:01 |
Degas, Rupert (Reader)
| | 5 | The Workshop was slung on either side… | 09:12 |
Degas, Rupert (Reader)
| | 6 | Generally the great overland journeys follow… | 11:41 |
Degas, Rupert (Reader)
| | 7 | Why does my mind dwell so much on… | 11:36 |
Degas, Rupert (Reader)
| | 8 | Chapter Three: Africa | 09:26 |
Degas, Rupert (Reader)
Disc 2
| | 1 | Arriving in Africa was, after all, pretty much… | 10:09 |
Degas, Rupert (Reader)
| | 2 | He was a fine old man and his nonsense… | 08:20 |
Degas, Rupert (Reader)
| | 3 | When does the 'B' movie become…? | 09:07 |
Degas, Rupert (Reader)
| | 4 | Tripoli looks as though it were recently bombed. | 10:31 |
Degas, Rupert (Reader)
| | 5 | I feel as though I'm going to the front… | 08:49 |
Degas, Rupert (Reader)
| | 6 | I set off with the maximum of nonchalance… | 07:17 |
Degas, Rupert (Reader)
| | 7 | So sure had I been that I would not… | 09:49 |
Degas, Rupert (Reader)
| | 8 | On the road, the new war and the old one … | 12:33 |
Degas, Rupert (Reader)
Disc 3
| | 1 | The episode dragged on, however… | 09:13 |
Degas, Rupert (Reader)
| | 2 | During the first night we cross… | 09:12 |
Degas, Rupert (Reader)
| | 3 | He is wrong. The Blue Nile joins the White Nile… | 09:22 |
Degas, Rupert (Reader)
| | 4 | Just as I was beginning to feel that I had… | 07:08 |
Degas, Rupert (Reader)
| | 5 | I tried to describe the bird to my friends… | 10:25 |
Degas, Rupert (Reader)
| | 6 | The bus came at midnight. | 07:33 |
Degas, Rupert (Reader)
| | 7 | Chapter Four: Falling and Rising | 08:07 |
Degas, Rupert (Reader)
| | 8 | There are four Bescharyin here… | 08:19 |
Degas, Rupert (Reader)
| | 9 | Something wakes me from my sleep. | 05:45 |
Degas, Rupert (Reader)
Disc 4
| | 1 | The morning passes in effort and short stops. | 09:29 |
Degas, Rupert (Reader)
| | 2 | The fifth day out of Kassala, and the slopes… | 08:37 |
Degas, Rupert (Reader)
| | 3 | At the bar on my right, on a high stool… | 11:16 |
Degas, Rupert (Reader)
| | 4 | Next day I'm in Nairobi! Halfway through Africa. | 09:28 |
Degas, Rupert (Reader)
| | 5 | It is hot in Lodwar, excessively hot. | 05:52 |
Degas, Rupert (Reader)
| | 6 | My people are a treacherous, conceited, idle… | 07:24 |
Degas, Rupert (Reader)
| | 7 | I wanted to get to Mombasa and drink a beer. | 07:17 |
Degas, Rupert (Reader)
| | 8 | Beyond the low vegetation, where the land… | 06:31 |
Degas, Rupert (Reader)
| | 9 | Pius took me back to the BP station… | 10:10 |
Degas, Rupert (Reader)
Disc 5
| | 1 | Pius was enlarging, meanwhile… | 08:45 |
Degas, Rupert (Reader)
| | 2 | Riding down the road to Mombasa… | 09:06 |
Degas, Rupert (Reader)
| | 3 | He showed no signs of any ordeals… | 10:52 |
Degas, Rupert (Reader)
| | 4 | The route swung back to the coast… | 07:39 |
Degas, Rupert (Reader)
| | 5 | Those who find romance in communications… | 09:23 |
Degas, Rupert (Reader)
| | 6 | The engineers were informative about Tanzania. | 08:03 |
Degas, Rupert (Reader)
| | 7 | If Africa has never belonged to the White Man… | 08:28 |
Degas, Rupert (Reader)
| | 8 | What we have here, I see, is a White Tribe. | 06:56 |
Degas, Rupert (Reader)
| | 9 | The South African Immigration and Customs… | 07:32 |
Degas, Rupert (Reader)
Disc 6
| | 1 | I am now only 280 miles from Johannesburg… | 09:30 |
Degas, Rupert (Reader)
| | 2 | The weather played tag with me… | 11:25 |
Degas, Rupert (Reader)
| | 3 | I strip off my waterproofs and bundle them… | 09:47 |
Degas, Rupert (Reader)
| | 4 | Among bright flowers and flights… | 08:40 |
Degas, Rupert (Reader)
| | 5 | Next day, Amade the clerk and I returned… | 07:29 |
Degas, Rupert (Reader)
| | 6 | The next day was clear and blue… | 05:11 |
Degas, Rupert (Reader)
| | 7 | Chapter Five: America | 10:57 |
Degas, Rupert (Reader)
| | 8 | My passport kindled some interest. | 08:00 |
Degas, Rupert (Reader)
Disc 7
| | 1 | In the morning, over an oily egg fried in garlic… | 09:45 |
Degas, Rupert (Reader)
| | 2 | When I was finally ejected onto the pavement… | 09:59 |
Degas, Rupert (Reader)
| | 3 | I took pictures of Dos Santos and his wife… | 09:21 |
Degas, Rupert (Reader)
| | 4 | I saw peasants coming from hand-made… | 09:22 |
Degas, Rupert (Reader)
| | 5 | The telex was tucked inside my working passport. | 09:51 |
Degas, Rupert (Reader)
| | 6 | Naturally such a government would watch… | 08:43 |
Degas, Rupert (Reader)
| | 7 | As Ian left he tried to encourage me again… | 07:39 |
Degas, Rupert (Reader)
| | 8 | From then on a dramatic change came over… | 06:03 |
Degas, Rupert (Reader)
| | 9 | Dutifully Matthews toiled out… | 06:16 |
Degas, Rupert (Reader)
Disc 8
| | 1 | It also marked the beginning of a new phase… | 07:38 |
Degas, Rupert (Reader)
| | 2 | By Thursday morning, things had progressed… | 08:44 |
Degas, Rupert (Reader)
| | 3 | The unnatural calm lasted until midday… | 08:36 |
Degas, Rupert (Reader)
| | 4 | The silence lasted only half an hour, if that. | 08:49 |
Degas, Rupert (Reader)
| | 5 | So they demonstrated their power to me… | 09:38 |
Degas, Rupert (Reader)
| | 6 | The priests had all been summoned… | 09:00 |
Degas, Rupert (Reader)
| | 7 | The thing drifted past at walking pace… | 09:16 |
Degas, Rupert (Reader)
| | 8 | Looking over the bushes in front of the mock… | 09:26 |
Degas, Rupert (Reader)
Disc 9
| | 1 | The fire – it was really more like an oven… | 08:05 |
Degas, Rupert (Reader)
| | 2 | Antoine usually did the shopping… | 07:51 |
Degas, Rupert (Reader)
| | 3 | But at night it was fine to share a meal… | 08:07 |
Degas, Rupert (Reader)
| | 4 | It was not my appetite for cold beer… | 10:09 |
Degas, Rupert (Reader)
| | 5 | The man with the spots asked me to wait… | 09:08 |
Degas, Rupert (Reader)
| | 6 | The mountain got steeper… | 07:28 |
Degas, Rupert (Reader)
| | 7 | Bruno and Antoine found me there later… | 07:56 |
Degas, Rupert (Reader)
| | 8 | Bruno lost his passenger, Antoine, at Lima… | 09:47 |
Degas, Rupert (Reader)
Disc 10
| | 1 | We rode on to Paita, which surprised me… | 08:55 |
Degas, Rupert (Reader)
| | 2 | From that beach the road led almost directly… | 08:34 |
Degas, Rupert (Reader)
| | 3 | We moved into one of the most beautiful… | 08:01 |
Degas, Rupert (Reader)
| | 4 | It was March when Bruno took the bus. | 09:27 |
Degas, Rupert (Reader)
| | 5 | The important thing for Pete was to have… | 06:14 |
Degas, Rupert (Reader)
| | 6 | Nicaragua has a volcano called Santiago. | 07:36 |
Degas, Rupert (Reader)
| | 7 | By the time I got to Mexico City… | 08:36 |
Degas, Rupert (Reader)
| | 8 | Going to the United States… | 10:37 |
Degas, Rupert (Reader)
Disc 11
| | 1 | The hotel was on the inland edge… | 08:59 |
Degas, Rupert (Reader)
| | 2 | The sun of California is like white wine… | 07:38 |
Degas, Rupert (Reader)
| | 3 | I learned that the ranch was a commune… | 08:12 |
Degas, Rupert (Reader)
| | 4 | There was no doubting Carol's energy. | 10:29 |
Degas, Rupert (Reader)
| | 5 | Chapter Six: Australia and Malaysia | 10:19 |
Degas, Rupert (Reader)
| | 6 | There were two others in the restaurant… | 06:53 |
Degas, Rupert (Reader)
| | 7 | Cars were still coming in over Lotus Creek… | 08:01 |
Degas, Rupert (Reader)
| | 8 | Soon afterwards the first car came through… | 07:42 |
Degas, Rupert (Reader)
Disc 12
| | 1 | That night the rain drummed on the tin roof… | 08:37 |
Degas, Rupert (Reader)
| | 2 | The Coburg tram took me down… | 07:48 |
Degas, Rupert (Reader)
| | 3 | And to make any resistance impossible… | 11:49 |
Degas, Rupert (Reader)
| | 4 | The most natural way to leave Australia… | 09:35 |
Degas, Rupert (Reader)
| | 5 | Next door to the hotel was a shop… | 09:00 |
Degas, Rupert (Reader)
| | 6 | The degeneration followed, it seemed… | 06:49 |
Degas, Rupert (Reader)
| | 7 | Chapter Seven: India | 07:39 |
Degas, Rupert (Reader)
| | 8 | With no religion of my own, I had always… | 07:10 |
Degas, Rupert (Reader)
Disc 13
| | 1 | The blow fell that morning. A telegram arrived… | 08:27 |
Degas, Rupert (Reader)
| | 2 | I'm not really thinking all this stuff now, though. | 09:54 |
Degas, Rupert (Reader)
| | 3 | I'm riding awkwardly through a thicket… | 08:09 |
Degas, Rupert (Reader)
| | 4 | The ferry to Sri Lanka crosses… | 09:04 |
Degas, Rupert (Reader)
| | 5 | Back at the rest house, convinced at least…… | 07:23 |
Degas, Rupert (Reader)
| | 6 | The southern hills were a great surprise… | 09:02 |
Degas, Rupert (Reader)
| | 7 | Heat, cold, pain, pleasure… | 08:38 |
Degas, Rupert (Reader)
| | 8 | On my way up the coast from Mangalore… | 06:47 |
Degas, Rupert (Reader)
Disc 14
| | 1 | In Khanpur (or Cawnpore as the British spelled…) | 07:56 |
Degas, Rupert (Reader)
| | 2 | My suite had two rooms, both huge. | 07:54 |
Degas, Rupert (Reader)
| | 3 | Ten miles beyond Gaya is Boddhgaya… | 08:13 |
Degas, Rupert (Reader)
| | 4 | The route I had planned took me back… | 07:47 |
Degas, Rupert (Reader)
| | 5 | I walked around the grounds, talked to some… | 07:25 |
Degas, Rupert (Reader)
| | 6 | Chapter Eight: The Prophecy Fulfilled | 10:34 |
Degas, Rupert (Reader)
| | 7 | It was an illusion, and I knew it. | 08:46 |
Degas, Rupert (Reader)
| | 8 | I put on more underclothes for the last… | 07:58 |
Degas, Rupert (Reader)
| | 9 | During this bad, mad time, the wedding… | 09:05 |
Degas, Rupert (Reader)
Total Playing Time: 16:52:28