Land and Sea Tales for Boys and Girls
By Rudyard Kipling
Length6h 15m
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Excerpt: "The history of the Victoria Cross has been told so often that it is only necessary to say that the Order was created by Queen Victoria on January 29th, 1856, in the year of the peace with Russia, when the new racing Cunard paddle-steamer Persia of three thousand tons was making thirteen knots an hour between England and America, and all the world wondered at the advance of civilization and progress Any officer of the English Army, Navy, Reserve or Volunteer forces, from a duke to a negro, can wear on his left breast the little ugly bronze Maltese cross with the crowned lion atop and the inscription "For Valour" below, if he has only "performed some signal act of valour" or devotion to his country "in the presence of the enemy." Nothing 2else makes any difference; for it is explicitly laid down in the warrant that "neither rank, nor long service, nor wounds, nor any other circumstance whatsoever, save the merit of conspicuous bravery, shall be held to establish a sufficient claim to this Order." There are many kinds of bravery, and if one looks through the records of the four hundred and eleven men, living and dead, that have held the Victoria Cross before the Great War, one finds instances of every imaginable variety of heroism."
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GenreGeneral Fiction
Length6 hrs 15 mins
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FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateJan 5, 2024
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1PREFACE
11THE BURNING OF THE “SARAH SANDS”
2WINNING THE VICTORIA CROSS
12THE LAST LAP
3THE WAY THAT HE TOOK
13THE PARABLE OF BOY JONES
4AN UNQUALIFIED PILOT
14A DEPARTURE
5THE JUNK AND DHOW
15THE BOLD ’PRENTICE
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6HIS GIFT
16THE NURSES
7PROLOGUE TO THE MASTER-COOK’S TALE
17THE SON OF HIS FATHER
8A FLIGHT OF FACT
18AN ENGLISH SCHOOL
9“STALKY”
19A COUNTING-OUT SONG
10THE HOUR OF THE ANGEL[19]
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