
Length12h 18m
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Excerpt: "Some time ago I wrote a book about a voyage in a whaler to the far south, to a white, silent land where the sun shines all day and night and it is quiet as the grave and beautiful as heaven—when it is not blowing and black as—the other place! A number of people said they liked it, and asked me to write again; therefore these notes and sketches on a Journey to India and Burmah. They may not be so interesting as notes about Antarctic adventure and jolly old Shell Backs and South Spainers on a whaler; but one journal ought at least, to be a contrast to the other. The first, a voyage on a tiny wooden ship with a menu of salt beef, biscuit, and penguin, to unsailed seas and uninhabited ice-bound lands; the other, in a floating hotel, with complicated meals, and crowds of passengers, to a hot land with innumerable inhabitants. I trust that the sketches I make on the way will help out my notes when they are not quite King's-English, and that the notes will help to explain the sketches if they are not sufficiently academical for the general reader, and moreover, I fondly believe that any journal written in the East in these years of grace 1905-6, must catch a little reflected interest from the historic visit of their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales to India and Burmah."
Audiobook details
GenreBiography and Memoir, Travel
Length12 hrs 18 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateApr 6, 2022
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1FROM EDINBURGH TO INDIA & BURMAH
22CHAPTER XIX
2LIST OF COLOURED ILLUSTRATIONS
23CHAPTER XX
3CHAPTER I
24CHAPTER XXI
4CHAPTER II
25CHAPTER XXII
5CHAPTER III
26CHAPTER XXIII
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6CHAPTER IV
27CHAPTER XXIV
7CHAPTER V
28CHAPTER XXV
8CHAPTER VI
29CHAPTER XXVI
9CHAPTER VII
30CHAPTER XXVII
10CHAPTER VIII
31CHAPTER XXVIII
11CHAPTER IX
32CHAPTER XXIX
12CHAPTER X
33CHAPTER XXX
13CHAPTER Xa
34CHAPTER XXXI
14CHAPTER XI
35CHAPTER XXXII
15CHAPTER XII
36CHAPTER XXXIII
16CHAPTER XIII
37CHAPTER XXXIV
17CHAPTER XIV
38CHAPTER XXXV
18CHAPTER XV
39CHAPTER XXXVI
19CHAPTER XVI
40CHAPTER XXXVII
20CHAPTER XVII
41CHAPTER XXXVIII
21CHAPTER XVIII
42CHAPTER XXXIX