Athelstane Ford
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Athelstane Ford

By Allen Upward
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Length8h 22m

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Excerpt: "It has not happened to many men, as I think, to have fallen into the hands of as cruel and bloodthirsty a monster as ever defiled God's earth, and to have escaped to tell the tale. Yet it is of this that I have come to write; and of all the hardships and perils which I went through from the time I fled from my father's house to seek for treasure in the East Indies; and of the battles in which I fought; and of the madness of love and jealousy which I knew; and of how the man I trusted became my enemy, and pursued me with his vengeance; and of the treasure which I found in the palace of the Hindoo king; and of how I returned at last to my own home. Nor do I greatly expect that the hearing of these things will be effectual to hinder those who come after me from adventuring in their turn, for young blood will have its way, like sap in the veins of a growing tree. But there are times when I think that if I could have looked forward and seen what was to come, and all the dire straits through which I was to pass—both among my own countrymen and in those distant lands—I might have given a different welcome to my cousin Rupert when he came riding into Brandon, on the evening of that day which was to be the last of my boyhood."

Audiobook details

GenreGeneral Fiction, Mystery and Thriller
Length8 hrs 22 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateJan 29, 2022
LanguageEnglish

Table of contents

1CHAPTER I
12CHAPTER XII
2CHAPTER II
13CHAPTER XIII
3CHAPTER III
14CHAPTER XIV
4CHAPTER IV
15CHAPTER XV
5CHAPTER V
16CHAPTER XVI
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6CHAPTER VI
17CHAPTER XVII
7CHAPTER VII
18CHAPTER XVIII
8CHAPTER VIII
19CHAPTER XIX
9CHAPTER IX
20CHAPTER XX
10CHAPTER X
21CHAPTER XXI
11CHAPTER XI
22CHAPTER XXII

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