Jack Manly, His Adventures by Sea and Land
By James Grant
Length9h 25m
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Excerpt: "It was the evening of the sixteenth of March. Exactly six months had elapsed since I left my father's snug villa at Peckham, with its walls shrouded by roses and honeysuckle; and now I found myself two thousand three hundred miles distant from it, in his agent's counting-room, in the dreary little town of St. John, in Newfoundland, writing in a huge ledger, and blowing my fingers from time to time, for snow more than ten feet deep covered all the desolate country, and the shipping in the harbour was imbedded in ice at least three feet in thickness; while the thermometer, at which I glanced pretty often, informed me that the mercury had sunk twelve degrees below the freezing point. While busily engrossing quintals of salted fish, by the thousand, barrels of Hamburg meal and Irish pork, chests of bohea, bales of shingles, kegs of gunpowder, caplin nets, anchors and cables, and Indian corn from the United States, with all the heterogeneous mass of everything which usually fill the stores of a wealthy merchant in that terra nova, I thought of the noisy world of London, from which I had been banished, or, as tutors and guardians phrased it, "sent to learn something of my father's business—i.e., practically to begin life as he had begun it;" and so I sighed impatiently over my monotonous task, while melting the congealed ink, from time to time, on the birchwood fire, and reverting to what March is in England, where we may watch the bursting of the new buds and early flowers; where the birds are heard in every sprouting hedge and tree, and as we inhale the fresh breeze of the morning, a new and unknown delight makes our pulses quicken and a glow of tenderness fill the heart—for then we see and feel, as some one says, "what we have seen and felt only in childhood and spring.""
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GenreBiography and Memoir, History
Length9 hrs 25 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateJul 31, 2021
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1CHAPTER I. WHY I WENT TO SEA.
2CHAPTER II. ADVENTURE IN A CASK.
3CHAPTER III. THE NARROWS OF ST. JOHN.
4CHAPTER IV THE BRIG "LEDA."
5CHAPTER V. KIDD THE PIRATE.
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6CHAPTER VI. THE BLACK SCHOONER.
7CHAPTER VII. THE CHASE.
8CHAPTER VIII. OUR REVENGE SCHEMED.
9CHAPTER IX. OUR REVENGE EXECUTED.
10CHAPTER X. THE SEAL-FISHERS.
11CHAPTER XI. COMBAT WITH A SEA-HORSE.
12CHAPTER XII. ON AN ICEBERG.
13CHAPTER XIII. ON THE ICEBERG—THE MASSACRE AT HIERRO.
14CHAPTER XIV. ESCAPE FROM THE ICEBEBG.
15CHAPTER XV UNDER WEIGH ONCE MORE.
16CHAPTER XVI. BESET WITHOUT HOPE.
17CHAPTER XVII. THE DEATH-SHIP.
18CHAPTER XVIII. LEAVES FROM THE LOG.
19CHAPTER XIX. THE GRAVES ON THE STARBOARD BOW.
20CHAPTER XX. ADRIFT ON THE DEAD FLOE.
21CHAPTER XXI. CAPE FAREWELL.
22CHAPTER XXII. THE MUSK-OX.
23CHAPTER XXIII. THE FOUR BEARS.
24CHAPTER XXIV. WOLMAR FYNBÖE.
25CHAPTER XXV. ADIEU TO THE REGION OF ICE.
26CHAPTER XXVI. A SHARK.
27CHAPTER XXVII. THE FATAL VOYAGE OF THE HEER VAN ESTELL.
28CHAPTER XXVIII. THE FATAL VOYAGE—HOW THEY CAST LOTS.
29CHAPTER XXIX. ADVENTURE WITH A WHALE.
30CHAPTER XXX. LOSS OF THE "LEDA."
31CHAPTER XXXI. THE CRY.
32CHAPTER XXXII. THE TWELFTH DAY.
33CHAPTER XXXIII. WHAT FOLLOWED.
34CHAPTER XXXIV. THE SAILOR'S POST-OFFICE.
35CHAPTER XXXV. MS. LEGEND OF EL CABO DOS TORMENTOS.
36CHAPTER XXXVI. LEGEND CONTINUED—THE CATASTROPHE.
37CHAPTER XXXVII LEGEND CONCLUDED—THE SEQUEL.
38CHAPTER XXXVIII. WE LAND IN AFRICA.
39CHAPTER XXXIX. THE KING OF THE SNAKE RIVER
40CHAPTER XL. THE GABON CLIFF.
41CHAPTER XLI. HOW THE CAPTAIN PERISHED.
42CHAPTER XLII. AMOO.
43CHAPTER XLIII. THE RESCUE OF HIS CHILD.
44CHAPTER XLIV. THE GRATITUDE OF HIS WIFE.
45CHAPTER XLV. FLIGHT.
46CHAPTER XLVI. FLIGHT CONTINUED.
47CHAPTER XLVII. THE WOOD OF THE DEVIL.
48CHAPTER XLVIII. RETAKEN.
49CHAPTER XLIX. THE CARAVAN.
50CHAPTER L. WE REACH THE CAPITAL.
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