Mature
Length8h 20m
About this audiobook
Excerpt: "When my own boy and girls, who call me "Daddy," read any of my books at home—and I am proud to say they all do—a question almost invariably asked is: "But do tell us, is it all true?" I answer as best I can. Now, no tale in the world is ever "all true": it would not be a story if it were, would it? Nevertheless I have knocked about all over the world so much, and made so many notes and observations, that I have my imagination to fall back upon less often than if I had stayed by the fireside all my life. Now I want to tell you right away, that most of my people or heroes in this story have had their prototypes, and I have tried to paint them from the life."
Audiobook details
GenreGeneral Fiction, Fantasy
Length8 hrs 20 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateJan 5, 2024
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1A WORD TO MY BOY READERS
20CHAPTER VIII INVASION BY SAVAGES—FEARFUL FIGHTING
2BOOK I THE HERMIT OF THE OLD WINDMILL (A SUMMER IDYLL)
21CHAPTER IX A FLEET OF THE DEAD
3CHAPTER I “WAS IT AN APPARITION?”
22CHAPTER X AFLOAT ON SUMMER SEAS
4CHAPTER II AT THE OLD WINDMILL
23BOOK III ADRIFT ON AN ECHOLESS OCEAN
5CHAPTER III CAPTAIN ANTONIO’S GLASS EYE
24CHAPTER I MUTINY AND DEATH
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6CHAPTER IV THE TRANSFORMATION SCENE
25CHAPTER II THE DOOM OF THE MUTINEERS
7CHAPTER V A WONDERFUL EVENING
26CHAPTER III THE DREAD STILLNESS BROKEN BY A WAILING SHRIEK
8CHAPTER VI “THE TWILIGHT IS SAD AND CLOUDY, AND THE WIND BLOWS WILD AND FREE”
27CHAPTER IV WHAT A WORLD OF LIFE WAS EVERYWHERE AROUND THEM
9CHAPTER VII “YES, YES,” SHE WEPT, “ON A FEARFUL NIGHT LIKE THIS THEY WERE ALL DROWNED”
28CHAPTER V A LONG LOST DERELICT
10CHAPTER VIII AT THE MERCY OF THE WAVES
29CHAPTER VI THE CRUNCHING NOISE ADDED TO THE HORROR OF THE SITUATION
11CHAPTER IX “THE MORN WAS FAIR, THE SKY WAS CLEAR, NO BREATH CAME O’ER THE SEA”
30CHAPTER VII THE BALLOON HAD BURST IN MID AIR
12BOOK II PEARL FISHING IN CANNIBAL ISLES
31CHAPTER VIII STRANGE ADVENTURES—SECRETS OF THE SEA
13CHAPTER I THE STOWAWAY
32CHAPTER IX AT THE DERELICT AGAIN
14CHAPTER II AT SEA
33CHAPTER X “SAYS GRANNIE, ‘JOHNNIE,’ SHE SAYS, ‘YOU’RE GOIN’ HOME’”
15CHAPTER III WILD LIFE ON THE OCEAN WAVE
34CHAPTER XI “WHERE CAN MEN DIE BETTER THAN IN FACING FEARFUL ODDS?”
16CHAPTER IV STRANGE STORY OF A STOLEN DIAMOND
35CHAPTER XII “NO HELP! NO HOPE! AND DAY AFTER DAY FLEW BY”
17CHAPTER V ASHORE ON A CANNIBAL ISLAND
36CHAPTER XIII SO PASSED THE LONG, BRIGHT HOURS AWAY
18CHAPTER VI THE KOH-I-NOOR PEARL
37CHAPTER XIV BROTHER JOSÉ’S STORY, AND DAVIE DRAKE’S LITTLE JOKE
19CHAPTER VII LEONA AND THE ISLANDERS
38FOOTNOTES:
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