Length8h 43m
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Excerpt: "The morning was hot, and Kit Musgrave, leaning on the African liner's rail, watched the volcanic rocks of Grand Canary grow out of the silver haze. He was conscious of some disappointment, because on the voyage to Las Palmas he had pictured a romantic white city shining against green palms. Its inhabitants were grave Spaniards, who secluded their wives and daughters in old Moorish houses with shady patios where fountains splashed. Now he saw he had got the picture wrong. Las Palmas was white, but not at all romantic. A sandy isthmus, swept by rolling clouds of dust, connected the town and the frankly ugly port. The houses round the harbor looked like small brown blocks. Behind them rose the Isleta cinder hill; in front, coal-wharfs and limekilns, hidden now and then by dust, occupied the beach. Moreover, the Spaniards on board the boats about the ship were excited, gesticulating ruffians. Bombay peddlers, short, dark-skinned Portuguese, and Canario dealers in wine, tobacco, and singing birds, pushed up the gangway. All disputed noisily in their eagerness to show their goods to the passengers. Yet Kit was not altogether disappointed. Somehow the industrial ugliness of the port and the crowd's businesslike activity were soothing. Kit had not known much romantic beauty, but he knew the Lancashire mining villages and the mean streets behind the Liverpool docks. Besides, he was persuaded that commerce, particularly British commerce, had a civilizing, uplifting power."
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GenreLiterary Classics, Fantasy
Length8 hrs 43 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateMar 9, 2022
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1PART I THE WIDE HORIZON
20CHAPTER VII SHIPPING CAMELS
2CHAPTER I KIT'S PLUNGE
21CHAPTER VIII AN IDLE AFTERNOON
3CHAPTER II OTHER RULES
22CHAPTER IX THE THIRD VOYAGE
4CHAPTER III A MOUNTAIN EXCURSION
23CHAPTER X SMOKE ON THE HORIZON
5CHAPTER IV KIT'S OBSTINACY
24CHAPTER XI MIGUEL TAKES CONTROL
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6CHAPTER V MRS AUSTIN'S VERANDA
25CHAPTER XII THE RETREAT TO THE BOAT
7CHAPTER VI THE INJURED PASSENGER
26PART III KIT FINDS HIS LEVEL
8CHAPTER VII THE BULLET
27CHAPTER I ILLUMINATION
9CHAPTER VIII A SWIMMING MATCH
28CHAPTER II "CAYMAN'S" START
10CHAPTER IX KIT GIVES HIS CONFIDENCE
29CHAPTER III THE WADY
11CHAPTER X MRS. AUSTIN MAKES SOME PLANS
30CHAPTER IV KIT NEGOTIATES
12CHAPTER XI THE PLANS WORK
31CHAPTER V THE RETURN TO THE BEACH
13PART II RESPONSIBILITY
32CHAPTER VI BETTY DEMANDS HELP
14CHAPTER I OLIVIA'S EXPERIMENT
33CHAPTER VII THE "LUCIA" ARRIVES
15CHAPTER II THE FIRST VOYAGE
34CHAPTER VIII "CAYMAN'S" RETURN
16CHAPTER III KIT'S SURPRISE
35CHAPTER IX KIT'S REWARD
17CHAPTER IV WOLF GIVES A FEAST
36CHAPTER X OLIVIA'S REFUSAL
18CHAPTER V WOLF'S OFFER
37CHAPTER XI DAYBREAK
19CHAPTER VI BETTY CARRIES A MESSAGE
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