A Floating City and the Blockade Runners
By Jules Verne
Length6h 40m
About this audiobook
The Blockade Runners (French: Les forceurs de blocus) is an 1865 novella by Jules Verne. In 1871 it was published in single volume together with novel A Floating City as a part of the Voyages Extraordinaires series (The Extraordinary Voyages). An English translation was published in 1874. The American Civil War plot centers on the exploits of a British merchant captain named James Playfair who must break the Union blockade of Charleston harbor in South Carolina to trade supplies for cotton and, later in the book, to rescue Halliburtt, the abolitionist journalist father of a young girl held prisoner (the father, not the girl) by the Confederates. Verne's tale was inspired by reality as many ships were actually lost while acting as blockade runners in and around Charleston in the early 1860s.
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GenreGeneral Fiction, Literary Classics
Length6 hrs 40 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateOct 13, 2022
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Table of contents.
26CHAPTER XXIV.
2LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.
27CHAPTER XXV.
3CHAPTER I.
28CHAPTER XXVI.
4CHAPTER II.
29CHAPTER XXVII.
5CHAPTER III.
30CHAPTER XXVIII.
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6CHAPTER IV.
31CHAPTER XXIX.
7CHAPTER V.
32CHAPTER XXX.
8CHAPTER VI.
33CHAPTER XXXI.
9CHAPTER VII.
34CHAPTER XXXII.
10CHAPTER VIII.
35CHAPTER XXXIII.
11CHAPTER IX.
36CHAPTER XXXIV.
12CHAPTER X.
37CHAPTER XXXV.
13CHAPTER XI.
38CHAPTER XXXVI.
14CHAPTER XII.
39CHAPTER XXXVII.
15CHAPTER XIII.
40CHAPTER XXXVIII.
16CHAPTER XIV.
41CHAPTER XXXIX.
17CHAPTER XV.
42CHAPTER I. THE “DOLPHIN.”
18CHAPTER XVI.
43CHAPTER II. “GETTING UNDER SAIL.”
19CHAPTER XVII.
44CHAPTER III.
20CHAPTER XVIII.
45CHAPTER IV. CROCKSTON’s TRICK.
21CHAPTER XIX.
46CHAPTER V THE SHOT FROM THE “IROQUOIS,” AND MISS JENNY’s ARGUMENTS.
22CHAPTER XX.
47CHAPTER VI. SULLIVAN ISLAND CHANNEL.
23CHAPTER XXI.
48CHAPTER VII. A SOUTHERN GENERAL.
24CHAPTER XXII.
49CHAPTER VIII. THE ESCAPE.
25CHAPTER XXIII.
50CHAPTER IX. “BETWEEN TWO FIRES.”
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