At the Back of the World, Wanderings over Many Lands and Seas
By George Pugh & Jennie Pugh
Length8h 1m
About this audiobook
Excerpt: "As far back as I can remember the sea had a strange fascination for me, and if, as is the custom with old people to ask a boy, however small, what he is going to be when he is a man, I invariably answered "a sailor of course." At school the lessons I liked best were geography, and the only books that interested me were those that told of travel in foreign lands. Born in Liverpool, that city by the sea, and living, for the first fourteen years of my life, within a mile of the docks, it was no wonder that I was passionately fond of the water, and all my spare time was spent at the docks talking to the sailors, amongst whom I had heaps of friends. The tales they told me of what they had seen in foreign lands, and the wonders of the deep made me long to grow up as quickly as possible, but it was not until I was fourteen that the opportunity came, and that in a curious way."
Audiobook details
GenreBiography and Memoir, Travel
Length8 hrs 1 min
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateJan 5, 2024
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1CHAPTER I I Go To Sea
2CHAPTER II The Making of a Sailor
3CHAPTER III A Burning Ship
4CHAPTER IV New Friends
5CHAPTER V Stormy Weather
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6CHAPTER VI The Southern Cross
7CHAPTER VII The Stone Begins to Roll
8CHAPTER VIII Various Kinds of Storms
9CHAPTER IX Christmas at Sea and George the Greek’s Story
10CHAPTER X Rounding Cape Horn
11CHAPTER XI Callao and San Lorenzo
12CHAPTER XII The Capital of Peru
13CHAPTER XIII On the Oroya Railway
14CHAPTER XIV Life on the Andes
15CHAPTER XV The Cost of Liquor and My Return to Lima
16CHAPTER XVI I go Back to the Sea Again
17CHAPTER XVII “Eastward Ho!”
18CHAPTER XVIII Lost in the Bush
19CHAPTER XIX Life at Belmont—Sharks and Flying Foxes
20CHAPTER XX Snake Stories—Two Brave Girls
21CHAPTER XXI Widow Smith’s Pig or “Barkis is Willin’”
22CHAPTER XXII A Dangerous Enterprise
23CHAPTER XXIII A Leaky Old Tub and Retribution or Villainy Rewarded
24CHAPTER XXIV Off to the Palmer Goldfields
25CHAPTER XXV We Return to Cooktown
26CHAPTER XXVI A Trip to the Cannibal Islands and Captain Brown’s Story
27CHAPTER XXVII Homeward Bound
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