Length12h 47m
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Redburn: His First Voyage is the fourth book by the American writer Herman Melville, first published in London in 1849. The book is semi-autobiographical and recounts the adventures of a refined youth among coarse and brutal sailors and the seedier areas of Liverpool. Unable to find employment at home, young Wellingborough Redburn signs on the Highlander, a merchantman out of New York City bound for Liverpool, England. Representing himself as the "son of a gentleman" and expecting to be treated as such, he discovers that he is just a green hand, a "boy", the lowest rank on the ship, assigned all the duties no other sailor wants, like cleaning out the "pig-pen", a longboat that serves as a shipboard sty...
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GenreBiography and Memoir, General Fiction
Length12 hrs 47 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateOct 8, 2021
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1CHAPTER I. HOW WELLINGBOROUGH REDBURN’S TASTE FOR THE SEA WAS BORN AND BRED IN HIM
2CHAPTER II. REDBURN’S DEPARTURE FROM HOME
3CHAPTER III. HE ARRIVES IN TOWN
4CHAPTER IV. HOW HE DISPOSED OF HIS FOWLING-PIECE
5CHAPTER V. HE PURCHASES HIS SEA-WARDROBE, AND ON A DISMAL RAINY DAY PICKS UP HIS BOARD AND LODGING ALONG THE WHARVES
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6CHAPTER VI. HE IS INITIATED IN THE BUSINESS OF CLEANING OUT THE PIG-PEN, AND SLUSHING DOWN THE TOP-MAST
7CHAPTER VII. HE GETS TO SEA AND FEELS VERY BAD
8CHAPTER VIII. HE IS PUT INTO THE LARBOARD WATCH; GETS SEA-SICK; AND RELATES SOME OTHER OF HIS EXPERIENCES
9CHAPTER IX. THE SAILORS BECOMING A LITTLE SOCIAL, REDBURN CONVERSES WITH THEM
10CHAPTER X. HE IS VERY MUCH FRIGHTENED; THE SAILORS ABUSE HIM; AND HE BECOMES MISERABLE AND FORLORN
11CHAPTER XI. HE HELPS WASH THE DECKS, AND THEN GOES TO BREAKFAST
12CHAPTER XII. HE GIVES SOME ACCOUNT OF ONE OF HIS SHIPMATES CALLED JACKSON
13CHAPTER XIII. HE HAS A FINE DAY AT SEA, BEGINS TO LIKE IT; BUT CHANGES HIS MIND
14CHAPTER XIV. HE CONTEMPLATES MAKING A SOCIAL CALL ON THE CAPTAIN IN HIS CABIN
15CHAPTER XV. THE MELANCHOLY STATE OF HIS WARDROBE
16CHAPTER XVI. AT DEAD OF NIGHT HE IS SENT UP TO LOOSE THE MAIN-SKYSAIL
17CHAPTER XVII. THE COOK AND STEWARD
18CHAPTER XVIII. HE ENDEAVORS TO IMPROVE HIS MIND; AND TELLS OF ONE BLUNT AND HIS DREAM BOOK
19CHAPTER XIX. A NARROW ESCAPE
20CHAPTER XX. IN A FOG HE IS SET TO WORK AS A BELL-TOLLER, AND BEHOLDS A HERD OF OCEAN-ELEPHANTS
21CHAPTER XXI. A WHALEMAN AND A MAN-OF-WAR’S-MAN
22CHAPTER XXII. THE HIGHLANDER PASSES A WRECK
23CHAPTER XXIII. AN UNACCOUNTABLE CABIN-PASSENGER, AND A MYSTERIOUS YOUNG LADY
24CHAPTER XXIV. HE BEGINS TO HOP ABOUT IN THE RIGGING LIKE A SAINT JAGO’S MONKEY
25CHAPTER XXV. QUARTER-DECK FURNITURE
26CHAPTER XXVI. A SAILOR A JACK OF ALL TRADES
27CHAPTER XXVII. HE GETS A PEEP AT IRELAND, AND AT LAST ARRIVES AT LIVERPOOL
28CHAPTER XXVIII. HE GOES TO SUPPER AT THE SIGN OF THE BALTIMORE CLIPPER
29CHAPTER XXIX. REDBURN DEFERENTIALLY DISCOURSES CONCERNING THE PROSPECTS OF SAILORS
30CHAPTER XXX. REDBURN GROWS INTOLERABLY FLAT AND STUPID OVER SOME OUTLANDISH OLD GUIDE-BOOKS
31CHAPTER XXXI. WITH HIS PROSY OLD GUIDE-BOOK, HE TAKES A PROSY STROLL THROUGH THE TOWN
32CHAPTER XXXII. THE DOCKS
33CHAPTER XXXIII. THE SALT-DROGHERS, AND GERMAN EMIGRANT SHIPS
34CHAPTER XXXIV. THE IRRAWADDY
35CHAPTER XXXV. GALLIOTS, COAST-OF-GUINEA-MAN, AND FLOATING CHAPEL
36CHAPTER XXXVI. THE OLD CHURCH OF ST. NICHOLAS, AND THE DEAD-HOUSE
37CHAPTER XXXVII. WHAT REDBURN SAW IN LAUNCELOTT’S-HEY
38CHAPTER XXXVIII. THE DOCK-WALL BEGGARS
39CHAPTER XXXIX. THE BOOBLE-ALLEYS OF THE TOWN
40CHAPTER XL. PLACARDS, BRASS-JEWELERS, TRUCK-HORSES, AND STEAMERS
41CHAPTER XLI. REDBURN ROVES ABOUT HITHER AND THITHER
42CHAPTER XLII. HIS ADVENTURE WITH THE CROSS OLD GENTLEMAN
43CHAPTER XLIII. HE TAKES A DELIGHTFUL RAMBLE INTO THE COUNTRY; AND MAKES THE ACQUAINTANCE OF THREE ADORABLE CHARMERS
44CHAPTER XLIV. REDBURN INTRODUCES MASTER HARRY BOLTON TO THE FAVORABLE CONSIDERATION OF THE READER
45CHAPTER XLV. HARRY BOLTON KIDNAPS REDBURN, AND CARRIES HIM OFF TO LONDON
46CHAPTER XLVI. A MYSTERIOUS NIGHT IN LONDON
47CHAPTER XLVII. HOMEWARD BOUND
48CHAPTER XLVIII. A LIVING CORPSE
49CHAPTER XLIX. CARLO
50CHAPTER L. HARRY BOLTON AT SEA
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