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.
Audiobook details
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.
27CHAPTER XXV.
2LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.
28CHAPTER XXVI.
3CHAPTER I.
29CHAPTER XXVII.
4CHAPTER II.
30CHAPTER XXVIII.
5CHAPTER III.
31CHAPTER XXIX.
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6CHAPTER IV.
32CHAPTER XXX.
7CHAPTER V.
33CHAPTER XXXI.
8CHAPTER VI.
34CHAPTER XXXII.
9CHAPTER VII.
35CHAPTER XXXIII.
10CHAPTER VIII.
36CHAPTER XXXIV.
11CHAPTER IX.
37CHAPTER XXXV.
12CHAPTER X.
38CHAPTER XXXVI.
13CHAPTER XI.
39CHAPTER XXXVII.
14CHAPTER XII.
40CHAPTER XXXVIII.
15CHAPTER XIII.
41CHAPTER XXXIX.
16CHAPTER XIV.
42CHAPTER I. THE “DOLPHIN.”
17CHAPTER XV.
43CHAPTER II. “GETTING UNDER SAIL.”
18CHAPTER XVI.
44CHAPTER III.
19CHAPTER XVII.
45CHAPTER IV. CROCKSTON’s TRICK.
20CHAPTER XVIII.
46CHAPTER V THE SHOT FROM THE “IROQUOIS,” AND MISS JENNY’s ARGUMENTS.
21CHAPTER XIX.
47CHAPTER VI. SULLIVAN ISLAND CHANNEL.
22CHAPTER XX.
48CHAPTER VII. A SOUTHERN GENERAL.
23CHAPTER XXI.
49CHAPTER VIII. THE ESCAPE.
24CHAPTER XXII.
50CHAPTER IX. “BETWEEN TWO FIRES.”
25CHAPTER XXIII.
51CHAPTER X. ST. MUNGO.
26CHAPTER XXIV.
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