The Many-Headed Hydra: Sailors, Slaves, Commoners, and the Hidden History of the Revolutionary Atlantic: Audiobook
According to The Books Insider's catalog data, The Many-Headed Hydra: Sailors, Slaves, Commoners, and the Hidden History of the Revolutionary Atlantic runs 16.6 hours as an unabridged audiobook, narrated by Cornell Womack (about 11 hours at 1.5× playback speed).
The instrument When will you finish it?
Based on 16.6 hours of listening.
| Your pace | You'll finish in |
|---|---|
| 30 min / day | 34 days |
| 1 hour / day | 17 days |
| 2 hours / day | 9 days |
| 1 hour / day at 1.5× | 12 days |
You'll finish in – by –
Part of The Audiobook Finish-Time Calculator: the same instrument for any audiobook we measure.
What our data says
- At 16.6 hours, it runs longer than 96% of the 9,905 Social Science audiobooks in our catalog.
More narrated by Cornell Womack
Cornell Womack narrates 10 unabridged audiobooks in our catalog, 112 hours in all.
About as long, on the Social Science shelf
379 Social Science audiobooks in our catalog run within 10% of this length. The most popular on the store:
- Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind: The multi-million copy bestseller
- The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America
- Caste (Oprah's Book Club): The Origins of Our Discontents
- Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
- Homo Deus: The million-copy bestseller from the author of Nexus
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
The Many-Headed Hydra: Sailors, Slaves, Commoners, and the Hidden History of the Revolutionary Atlantic is an audiobook by Peter Linebaugh and Marcus Rediker: a 16.6-hour unabridged recording, read by Cornell Womack, released April 5, 2022, on the Social Science and World shelves.
The listen at a glance
- Length
- 16.6 hrs
- Narrated by
- Cornell Womack
- Released
- April 5, 2022
- Format
- Unabridged audiobook
- Language
- English
- Store shelves
- Social Science, World, Current Affairs, Law, & Politics
- ISBN
- 9780807007082
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Start listening freeQuestions listeners ask
How long is The Many-Headed Hydra: Sailors, Slaves, Commoners, and the Hidden History of the Revolutionary Atlantic as an audiobook?
The Many-Headed Hydra: Sailors, Slaves, Commoners, and the Hidden History of the Revolutionary Atlantic runs 16.6 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 11 hours.
Is The Many-Headed Hydra: Sailors, Slaves, Commoners, and the Hidden History of the Revolutionary Atlantic free as an audiobook?
Yes, for new listeners: the trial starts you with three free audiobooks.
Who narrates The Many-Headed Hydra: Sailors, Slaves, Commoners, and the Hidden History of the Revolutionary Atlantic?
The Many-Headed Hydra: Sailors, Slaves, Commoners, and the Hidden History of the Revolutionary Atlantic is narrated by Cornell Womack.
Is The Many-Headed Hydra: Sailors, Slaves, Commoners, and the Hidden History of the Revolutionary Atlantic worth listening to at 1.5× speed?
At 1.5× you'd finish in about 11 hours, saving 5.5 hours.