Michael Strogoff - Or, The Courier of the Czar
By Jules Verne
Length10h 55m
About this audiobook
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)
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GenreGeneral Fiction
Length10 hrs 55 mins
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FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateDec 27, 2015
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1BOOK I
2CHAPTER I A FETE AT THE NEW PALACE
3CHAPTER II RUSSIANS AND TARTARS
4CHAPTER III MICHAEL STROGOFF MEETS THE CZAR
5CHAPTER IV FROM MOSCOW TO NIJNI-NOVGOROD
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6CHAPTER V THE TWO ANNOUNCEMENTS
7CHAPTER VI BROTHER AND SISTER
8CHAPTER VII GOING DOWN THE VOLGA
9CHAPTER VIII GOING UP THE KAMA
10CHAPTER IX DAY AND NIGHT IN A TARANTASS
11CHAPTER X A STORM IN THE URAL MOUNTAINS
12CHAPTER XI TRAVELERS IN DISTRESS
13CHAPTER XII PROVOCATION
14CHAPTER XIII DUTY BEFORE EVERYTHING
15CHAPTER XIV MOTHER AND SON
16CHAPTER XV THE MARSHES OF THE BARABA
17CHAPTER XVI A FINAL EFFORT
18CHAPTER XVII THE RIVALS
19BOOK II
20CHAPTER I A TARTAR CAMP
21CHAPTER II CORRESPONDENTS IN TROUBLE
22CHAPTER III BLOW FOR BLOW
23CHAPTER IV THE TRIUMPHAL ENTRY
24CHAPTER V "LOOK WHILE YOU MAY!"
25CHAPTER VI A FRIEND ON THE HIGHWAY
26CHAPTER VII THE PASSAGE OF THE YENISEI
27CHAPTER VIII A HARE CROSSES THE ROAD
28CHAPTER IX IN THE STEPPE
29CHAPTER X BAIKAL AND ANGARA
30CHAPTER XI BETWEEN TWO BANKS
31CHAPTER XII IRKUTSK
32CHAPTER XIII THE CZAR'S COURIER
33CHAPTER XIV THE NIGHT OF THE FIFTH OF OCTOBER
34CHAPTER XV CONCLUSION
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