Michael Strogoff - Or, The Courier of the Czar

Michael Strogoff - Or, The Courier of the Czar

By Jules Verne
Michael Caine
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Length10h 55m

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Michael Strogoff, a 30-year-old native of Omsk,, is a courier for Tsar Alexander II of Russia. The Tartar Khan, Feofar Khan, incites a rebellion and separates the Russion Far East from the mainland, severing telegraph lines. Rebels encircle Irkutsk, where the local governor, brother of the Tsar, is making a last stand. Strogoff is sent to Irkutsk to warn the governor about the traitor Ivan Ogareff. Ogareff, a former colonel, was once demoted and exiled and now seeks revenge against the royal family. He intends to destroy Irkutsk by setting fire to the huge oil storage tanks on the banks of the Angara River. On his way to Irkutsk, Strogoff meets Nadia Fedor, daughter of an exiled political prisoner, Basil Fedor, who has been granted permission to join her father at his exile in Irkutsk, the eng war correspondent Harry Blount of the Daily Telegraph and Alcide Jolivet, a Frenchman reporting for his 'cousin Madeleine'. Blount and Jolivet tend to follow the same route as Michael, separating and meeting again all the way through Siberia. He is supposed to travel under a false identity, but he is discovered by the Tartars when he meets his mother in their home city of Omsk. Michael, his mother and Nadia are eventually taken prisoner by the Tartar forces. Ivan Ogareff alleges that Michael is a spy…  (Excerpt from Wikipedia)

Audiobook details

GenreGeneral Fiction
Length10 hrs 55 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateDec 27, 2015
LanguageEnglish

Table of contents

1BOOK I
18CHAPTER XVII THE RIVALS
2CHAPTER I A FETE AT THE NEW PALACE
19BOOK II
3CHAPTER II RUSSIANS AND TARTARS
20CHAPTER I A TARTAR CAMP
4CHAPTER III MICHAEL STROGOFF MEETS THE CZAR
21CHAPTER II CORRESPONDENTS IN TROUBLE
5CHAPTER IV FROM MOSCOW TO NIJNI-NOVGOROD
22CHAPTER III BLOW FOR BLOW
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6CHAPTER V THE TWO ANNOUNCEMENTS
23CHAPTER IV THE TRIUMPHAL ENTRY
7CHAPTER VI BROTHER AND SISTER
24CHAPTER V "LOOK WHILE YOU MAY!"
8CHAPTER VII GOING DOWN THE VOLGA
25CHAPTER VI A FRIEND ON THE HIGHWAY
9CHAPTER VIII GOING UP THE KAMA
26CHAPTER VII THE PASSAGE OF THE YENISEI
10CHAPTER IX DAY AND NIGHT IN A TARANTASS
27CHAPTER VIII A HARE CROSSES THE ROAD
11CHAPTER X A STORM IN THE URAL MOUNTAINS
28CHAPTER IX IN THE STEPPE
12CHAPTER XI TRAVELERS IN DISTRESS
29CHAPTER X BAIKAL AND ANGARA
13CHAPTER XII PROVOCATION
30CHAPTER XI BETWEEN TWO BANKS
14CHAPTER XIII DUTY BEFORE EVERYTHING
31CHAPTER XII IRKUTSK
15CHAPTER XIV MOTHER AND SON
32CHAPTER XIII THE CZAR'S COURIER
16CHAPTER XV THE MARSHES OF THE BARABA
33CHAPTER XIV THE NIGHT OF THE FIFTH OF OCTOBER
17CHAPTER XVI A FINAL EFFORT
34CHAPTER XV CONCLUSION

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