The Land of Fire, A Tale of Adventure
By Thomas Mayne Reid
Length4h 40m
About this audiobook
Excerpt: "A ship tempest-tossed, labouring amid the surges of an angry sea; her crew on the alert, doing their utmost to keep her off a lee-shore. And such a shore! None more dangerous on all ocean's edge; for it is the west coast of Tierra del Fuego, abreast the Fury Isles and that long belt of seething breakers known to mariners as the "Milky Way," the same of which the great naturalist, Darwin, has said: "One sight of such a coast is enough to make a landsman dream for a week about shipwreck, peril, and death." There is no landsman in the ship now exposed to its dangers. All on board are familiar with the sea—have spent years upon it. Yet is there fear in their hearts and pallor on their cheeks, as their eyes turn to that belt of white frothy water between them and the land, trending north and south beyond the range of vision. Technically speaking, the endangered vessel is not a ship, but a barque, as betokened by the fore-and-aft rig of her mizenmast. Nor is she of large dimensions; only some six or seven hundred tons. But the reader knows this already, or will, after learning her name. As her stern swings up on the billow, there can be read upon it the Calypso; and she is that Calypso in which Henry Chester sailed out of Portsmouth Harbour to make his first acquaintance with a sea life."
Audiobook details
Rating★★★★ 3.8 (54)
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GenreGeneral Fiction, Young Adult
Length4 hrs 40 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateNov 20, 2023
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Preface.
13Chapter Twelve.
2Chapter One.
14Chapter Thirteen.
3Chapter Two.
15Chapter Fourteen.
4Chapter Three.
16Chapter Fifteen.
5Chapter Four.
17Chapter Sixteen.
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6Chapter Five.
18Chapter Seventeen.
7Chapter Six.
19Chapter Eighteen.
8Chapter Seven.
20Chapter Nineteen.
9Chapter Eight.
21Chapter Twenty.
10Chapter Nine.
22Chapter Twenty One.
11Chapter Ten.
23Chapter Twenty Two.
12Chapter Eleven.
24Chapter Twenty Three.
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