Two Years Before the Mast: Audiobook
According to The Books Insider's catalog data, the Two Years Before the Mast audiobook runs 16.5 hours unabridged, narrated by Bernard Mayes (about 11 hours at 1.5× playback speed).
The instrument When will you finish it?
Based on 16.5 hours of listening.
| Your pace | You'll finish in |
|---|---|
| 30 min / day | 33 days |
| 1 hour / day | 17 days |
| 2 hours / day | 9 days |
| 1 hour / day at 1.5× | 11 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 16.5 hours, it runs longer than 86% of the 5,887 The Americas audiobooks in our catalog.
More narrated by Bernard Mayes
Bernard Mayes narrates 21 unabridged audiobooks in our catalog, 524 hours in all.
About as long, on the The Americas shelf
519 The Americas audiobooks in our catalog run within 10% of this length. The most popular on the store:
- The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America
- Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American History
- Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
- Chaos: Charles Manson, the CIA, and the Secret History of the Sixties
- Leadership
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
Two Years Before the Mast is an audiobook by Richard Henry Dana: a 16.5-hour unabridged recording, read by Bernard Mayes, released December 2, 2010, on the The Americas and History & Culture shelves.
The listen at a glance
- Length
- 16.5 hrs
- Narrated by
- Bernard Mayes
- Released
- December 2, 2010
- Format
- Unabridged audiobook
- Language
- English
- Store shelves
- The Americas, History & Culture
- ISBN
- 9781483068862
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Start listening freeQuestions listeners ask
How long is the Two Years Before the Mast audiobook?
Two Years Before the Mast runs 16.5 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 11 hours.
Is the Two Years Before the Mast audiobook free?
Yes, for new listeners: the trial starts you with three free audiobooks.
Who narrates Two Years Before the Mast?
Two Years Before the Mast is narrated by Bernard Mayes.
Is Two Years Before the Mast worth listening to at 1.5× speed?
At 1.5× you'd finish in about 11 hours, saving 5.5 hours.