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Captains Courageous by Rudyard Kipling

Captains Courageous: Audiobook

According to The Books Insider's catalog data, the Captains Courageous audiobook runs 6 hours unabridged, narrated by George Guidall (about 4 hours at 1.5× playback speed).

6listening hrs
Classics (Literature)store shelf
2011released
Free for new listeners

The instrument When will you finish it?

Based on 6 hours of listening.

Days to finish Captains Courageous at common listening paces
Your paceYou'll finish in
30 min / day12 days
1 hour / day6 days
2 hours / day3 days
1 hour / day at 1.5×4 days

Part of The Audiobook Finish-Time Calculator: the same instrument for any audiobook we measure.

What our data says

  • At 6 hours, it runs longer than 55% of the 6,931 Classics (Literature) audiobooks in our catalog.

About as long, on the Classics (Literature) shelf

420 Classics (Literature) audiobooks in our catalog run within 10% of this length. The most popular on the store:

Other recordings

  • The 2018 recording read by Mark F. Smith runs 0.1 hours shorter (5.9 hours).
  • The 2015 recording read by David Stuart runs 0.8 hours shorter (5.2 hours).
  • The 2025 recording read by Finian Silverwood runs 0.9 hours shorter (5.1 hours).
  • The 2020 recording read by Tomas Riley runs 0.1 hours longer (6.1 hours).
  • The 2019 recording read by Geoffrey Giuliano & Company runs about the same length (6 hours).

Computed from 409,794 English-language unabridged audiobooks in The Books Insider catalog (store data read November 3, 2026). Lengths are the store's own running times. Methodology.

About this listen

Captains Courageous is an audiobook by Rudyard Kipling: a 6-hour unabridged recording, read by George Guidall, released April 22, 2011, on the Classics (Literature) and Classics (Kids) shelves.

The listen at a glance

Length
6 hrs
Narrated by
George Guidall
Released
April 22, 2011
Format
Unabridged audiobook
Language
English
Store shelves
Classics (Literature), Classics (Kids)
ISBN
9781461811053

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Questions listeners ask

How long is the Captains Courageous audiobook?

Captains Courageous runs 6 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 4 hours.

Is the Captains Courageous audiobook free?

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Who narrates Captains Courageous?

Captains Courageous is narrated by George Guidall.