Man on the Ocean A Book about Boats and Ships
By R. M. Ballantyne
Length5h 47m
About this audiobook
Excerpt: "Ships are, as it were, the electric sparks of the world, by means of which the superabundance of different countries is carried forth to fill, reciprocally, the voids in each. They are not only the media of intercourse between the various families of the human race, whereby our shores are enriched with the produce of other lands, but they are the bearers of inestimable treasures of knowledge from clime to clime, and of gospel light to the uttermost ends of the earth. But for ships, we should never have heard of the wonders of the coral isles and the beauties of the golden South, or the phenomena and tempests of the icy North. But for ships, the stirring adventures and perils of Magellan, Drake, Cook, etcetera, had never been encountered; and even the far-famed Robinson Crusoe himself had never gladdened, and saddened, and romantically maddened the heart of youth with his escapes, his fights, his parrots, and his philosophy, as he now does, and as he will continue to do till the end of time."
Audiobook details
GenreLiterary Classics
Length5 hrs 47 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateMay 9, 2019
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Introduction
9Chapter Eight.
2Chapter One.
10Chapter Nine.
3Chapter Two.
11Chapter Ten.
4Chapter Three.
12Chapter Eleven.
5Chapter Four.
13Chapter Twelve.
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6Chapter Five.
14Chapter Thirteen.
7Chapter Six.
15Chapter Fourteen.
8Chapter Seven.
16Chapter Fifteen.
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