Length9h 40m
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(Excerpt): "After becoming acquainted with gun-cotton, nitro-glycerine, dynamite, lithofracteur, and other combinations of powerfully-explosive agents, I took to searching for and inventing methods by which these might be utilised. To turn everything to good account, is a desire which I cannot resist. Explosives naturally drew my attention to mines—tin-mines, coal-mines, and other commercial enterprises. They also suggested war and torpedoes. At that time I had not reflected on the nature of war. I merely knew it to be a science, cultivated chiefly by the human race, and that in its practice explosives are largely used. To "blow-up" effectively, whether in a literal or figurative sense, is difficult. To improve this power in war, and in the literal sense, I set myself to work. I invented a torpedo, which seemed to me better than any that had yet been brought out. To test its powers, I made a miniature fortification, and blew it up. I also blew up our groom, Jacob Lancey."
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GenreLiterary Classics
Length9 hrs 40 mins
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FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateMay 9, 2019
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1R.M. Ballantyne
2Chapter One.
3A Tale of Modern War.
4Reveals the Explosive Nature of my Early Career.
5Chapter Two.: Is Still More Explosive than the First.
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6Chapter Three.: An Interview with Men in Power.
7Chapter Four.: A Day with the Torpedoes.
8Chapter Five.: Terrible Torpedo Tales, Followed By Overturned Plans.
9Chapter Six.: Turk and Bulgarian—A Wrestling Match and a Dispute.
10Chapter Seven.: The Black Clouds Gather.
11Chapter Eight.: Treats of Torpedoes, Terrible Catastrophe, Unexpected Meetings, and Such Like.
12Chapter Nine.: In which Lancey is Tried, Suspected, Blown Up, Captured, Half-Hanged, Delivered, and Astonished.
13Chapter Ten.: Involves Lancey in Great Perplexities, which Culminate in a Vast Surprise.
14Chapter Eleven.: Refers to two Important Letters, and a Secret Mission.
15Chapter Twelve.: My First Experience of Actual War, and my Thoughts Thereon.
16Chapter Thirteen.: Shews what Sometimes Happens in the Track of Troops.
17Chapter Fourteen.: Tells More of what Occasionally Happens in the Track of Troops.
18Chapter Fifteen.: Simtova—New Views of War—Lancey Goes to the Front, and Sees Service, and Gets a Scare.
19Chapter Sixteen.: Lancey gets Embroiled in Troubles, and Sees some Peculiar Service.
20Chapter Seventeen.: In which some Desperate Enterprises are Undertaken.
21Chapter Eighteen.: Treats of one of our Great Ironclads.
22Chapter Nineteen.: Describes a Stirring Fight.
23Chapter Twenty.: Treats of War and some of its “Glorious” Results.
24Chapter Twenty One.: More of the Results of War.
25Chapter Twenty Two.: The Fall of Plevna.
26Chapter Twenty Three.: Woe to the “Auburn Hair!” After the Battle—Prowling Villains Punished.
27Chapter Twenty Four.: Farewell to Sanda Pasha—A Scuffle, and an Unexpected Meeting.
28Chapter Twenty Five.: Describes a Wreck, and the Triumph of Love.
29Chapter Twenty Six.
30Some More of War’s Consequences.
31The End.
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