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.
30CHAPTER XXX. LOSS OF THE "LEDA."
2CHAPTER II. ADVENTURE IN A CASK.
31CHAPTER XXXI. THE CRY.
3CHAPTER III. THE NARROWS OF ST. JOHN.
32CHAPTER XXXII. THE TWELFTH DAY.
4CHAPTER IV THE BRIG "LEDA."
33CHAPTER XXXIII. WHAT FOLLOWED.
5CHAPTER V. KIDD THE PIRATE.
34CHAPTER XXXIV. THE SAILOR'S POST-OFFICE.
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6CHAPTER VI. THE BLACK SCHOONER.
35CHAPTER XXXV. MS. LEGEND OF EL CABO DOS TORMENTOS.
7CHAPTER VII. THE CHASE.
36CHAPTER XXXVI. LEGEND CONTINUED—THE CATASTROPHE.
8CHAPTER VIII. OUR REVENGE SCHEMED.
37CHAPTER XXXVII LEGEND CONCLUDED—THE SEQUEL.
9CHAPTER IX. OUR REVENGE EXECUTED.
38CHAPTER XXXVIII. WE LAND IN AFRICA.
10CHAPTER X. THE SEAL-FISHERS.
39CHAPTER XXXIX. THE KING OF THE SNAKE RIVER
11CHAPTER XI. COMBAT WITH A SEA-HORSE.
40CHAPTER XL. THE GABON CLIFF.
12CHAPTER XII. ON AN ICEBERG.
41CHAPTER XLI. HOW THE CAPTAIN PERISHED.
13CHAPTER XIII. ON THE ICEBERG—THE MASSACRE AT HIERRO.
42CHAPTER XLII. AMOO.
14CHAPTER XIV. ESCAPE FROM THE ICEBEBG.
43CHAPTER XLIII. THE RESCUE OF HIS CHILD.
15CHAPTER XV UNDER WEIGH ONCE MORE.
44CHAPTER XLIV. THE GRATITUDE OF HIS WIFE.
16CHAPTER XVI. BESET WITHOUT HOPE.
45CHAPTER XLV. FLIGHT.
17CHAPTER XVII. THE DEATH-SHIP.
46CHAPTER XLVI. FLIGHT CONTINUED.
18CHAPTER XVIII. LEAVES FROM THE LOG.
47CHAPTER XLVII. THE WOOD OF THE DEVIL.
19CHAPTER XIX. THE GRAVES ON THE STARBOARD BOW.
48CHAPTER XLVIII. RETAKEN.
20CHAPTER XX. ADRIFT ON THE DEAD FLOE.
49CHAPTER XLIX. THE CARAVAN.
21CHAPTER XXI. CAPE FAREWELL.
50CHAPTER L. WE REACH THE CAPITAL.
22CHAPTER XXII. THE MUSK-OX.
51CHAPTER LI. AN OLD FRIEND IN A NEW PLACE.
23CHAPTER XXIII. THE FOUR BEARS.
52CHAPTER LII. HARTLY'S STORY.
24CHAPTER XXIV. WOLMAR FYNBÖE.
53CHAPTER LIII. THE FEMALE GUARDS.
25CHAPTER XXV. ADIEU TO THE REGION OF ICE.
54CHAPTER LIV ATTEMPT TO ESCAPE AGAIN.
26CHAPTER XXVI. A SHARK.
55CHAPTER LV THE FORMOSA.
27CHAPTER XXVII. THE FATAL VOYAGE OF THE HEER VAN ESTELL.
56CHAPTER LVI. A PERILOUS JOURNEY.
28CHAPTER XXVIII. THE FATAL VOYAGE—HOW THEY CAST LOTS.
57CHAPTER LVII. PURSUIT AGAIN.
29CHAPTER XXIX. ADVENTURE WITH A WHALE.
58CONCLUSION.
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