General Fiction

The Quest of the Silver Swan A Land and Sea Tale for Boys

By W. Bert Foster

Listen with Sir Michael Caine™ and 1,000+ voices

Get for $2.30

Length7h 42m

About this audiobook

Excerpt: "The sun, whose upper edge had just appeared above the horizon, cast its first red beams aslant a deserted wilderness of heaving billows. Here and there a flying fish, spurning its usual element, cut the air like a swift ray of light, falling back into the sea again after its short flight with a splash that sent myriad drops flashing in the sunlight. There were not a few triangular objects, dark in color, and looking like tiny sails, darting along the surface of the sea, first in this direction and then in that. There was a peculiar sinister motion to these fleshy sails, an appearance to make the beholder shudder involuntarily; for these objects were the dorsal fins of sharks, and there is nothing more bloodthirsty and cruel than these "tigers of the sea." It was quite noticeable that these monsters had gathered about an object which, in comparison with the vast expanse of sea and sky, was but a speck. It labored heavily upon the surface of the sea, and seemed to possess a great attraction for the sharks."

Adventure Survival Journey Epic Quest Coming of Age Family Mystery Hero Thriller Identity Nature & Wilderness

Audiobook details

GenreGeneral Fiction

Length7 hrs 42 mins

Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices

FormateBook with Audio

Publish dateJul 15, 2022

LanguageEnglish

1CHAPTER I THE RAFT AT SEA

2CHAPTER II INTRODUCING BRANDON TARR AND UNCLE ARAD

3CHAPTER III AN ACCOUNT OF THE WRECK OF THE SILVER SWAN

4CHAPTER IV BRANDON COMES TO A DECISION

5CHAPTER V UNCLE ARAD HAS RECOURSE TO LEGAL FORCE

Show all chapters

6CHAPTER VI RELATING A MEETING BETWEEN UNCLE ARAD AND THE SAILOR

7CHAPTER VII INTRODUCING “SQUARE” HOLT AND HIS OPINIONS

8CHAPTER VIII SOMETHING ABOUT LEAVING THE FARM

9CHAPTER IX ANOTHER LETTER FROM NEW YORK

10CHAPTER X BRANDON’S ARRIVAL AT THE METROPOLIS

11CHAPTER XI THE FIRM OF ADONIRAM PEPPER &amp; CO.

12CHAPTER XII IN WHICH BRANDON VENTURES INTO RATHER DISREPUTABLE SOCIETY

13CHAPTER XIII THE OLD SAILOR WITH THE WOODEN LEG

14CHAPTER XIV THE OLD SAILOR’S EXCITEMENT

15CHAPTER XV CALEB RECEIVES A STARTLING COMMUNICATION

16CHAPTER XVI TELLING HOW BRANDON BEARDED THE LION IN HIS LAIR

17CHAPTER XVII HOW THE OMNIPRESENT WEEKS PROVES HIS RIGHT TO THE TERM

18CHAPTER XVIII BRANDON LISTENS TO A SHORT FAMILY HISTORY

19CHAPTER XIX TELLING A GREAT DEAL ABOUT DERELICTS IN GENERAL

20CHAPTER XX THE CONTENTS OF SEVERAL INTERESTING DOCUMENTS

21CHAPTER XXI IN WHICH MR. PEPPER MAKES A PROPOSITION TO CALEB AND DON

22CHAPTER XXII INTO BAD COMPANY

23CHAPTER XXIII MR. ALFRED WEEKS AT A CERTAIN CONFERENCE

24CHAPTER XXIV HOW A NEFARIOUS COMPACT WAS FORMED

25CHAPTER XXV UNCLE ARAD MAKES AN ANNOUNCEMENT

26CHAPTER XXVI CALEB WETHERBEE OBSTRUCTS THE COURSE OF THE LAW

27CHAPTER XXVII WHEREIN BRANDON TARR CONCEALS HIMSELF

28CHAPTER XXVIII THE DEPARTURE OF THE WHALEBACK, NUMBER THREE

29CHAPTER XXIX THE STOWAWAY ABOARD THE SUCCESS

30CHAPTER XXX SHOWING WHAT MISS MILLY DOES FOR BRANDON

31CHAPTER XXXI WHEREIN NUMBER THREE APPROACHES THE SUPPOSED VICINITY OF THE SILVER SWAN

32CHAPTER XXXII RELATING HOW THE SILVER SWAN WAS HEARD FROM

33CHAPTER XXXIII IN WHICH COMRADES IN COURAGE LAUNCH THEMSELVES UPON THE DEEP

34CHAPTER XXXIV THE INCIDENTS OF A NIGHT OF PERIL

35CHAPTER XXXV SHOWING HOW CALEB APPEARED ON THE SCENE JUST TOO LATE

36CHAPTER XXXVI THE CASTAWAYS ON THE BRIG SUCCESS

37CHAPTER XXXVII LEFT IN DOUBT

38CHAPTER XXXVIII HOW THE ENEMY APPEARED

39CHAPTER XXXIX SHOWING HOW MR. WEEKS MADE HIS LAST MOVE

40CHAPTER XL IN WHICH THE ENEMY IS DEFEATED AND THE QUEST OF THE SILVER SWAN IS ENDED

Series

Classics To Go

More from W. Bert Foster

Swept Out to Sea, or Clint Webb Among the WhalersW. Bert Foster5h 37m$2.30

From Sea to Sea, or Clint Webb's Cruise on the WindjammerW. Bert Foster5h 35m$2.30

More from Literature & Fiction

WhistlerAnn Patchett10h 45m4.6 (4.6K)$29 · $0.00

Demon CopperheadBarbara Kingsolver21h 3m4.5 (949.4K)$46 · $0.00

To Kill a MockingbirdHarper Lee12h 18m4.5 (7.4M)$29 · $0.00

Remarkably Bright CreaturesShelby Van Pelt11h 17m4.4 (1.7M)$29 · $0.00

This Side of Paradise - The Original 1920 Edition (Annotated)F. Scott Fitzgerald11h 30m4.6 (1.6K)$2 · $0.00

War LordBernard Cornwell13h 21m4.6 (33.1K)$33 · $0.00

The Great Gatsby: Original 1925 Edition (An F. Scott Fitzgerald Classic NovelFrancis Scott Fitzgerald4h 45m4.6 (9.3K)$18 · $0.00

Something Like LoveBeverly Jenkins10h 21m4.6 (2.7K)$29 · $0.00

Black History CollectionFrederick Douglass, Harriet Ann Jacobs, Booker T. Washington, W.E.B. Du Bois27h 9m4.6 (2.6K)$18 · $0.00

The Old Man and the Sea (Annotated)Ernest Hemingway4h 27m4.6 (1.4K)$2 · $0.00

White HotIlona Andrews13h 18m4.5 (136.9K)$5 · $0.00

The Ghost by the Billabong (The Matilda Saga, #5)Jackie French14h 58m4.6 (773)$33 · $0.00

Cast in BloodMichelle Sagara16h 35m4.6 (607)$33 · $0.00

The Captain Blood Trilogy (Annotated)Rafael Sabatini29h 20m4.6 (1K)$3 · $0.00

Ship of the Line (Annotated)Cecil Louis Troughton Smith11h 13m4.6 (1K)$2 · $0.00

The George Orwell CollectionGeorge Orwell24h 46m4.5 (14.4K)$12 · $0.00

Time RegainedMarcel Proust15h 38m4.5 (9.2K)$2 · $0.00

Driving ForceElle James4h 58m4.6 (407)$20 · $0.00

When God Calls the HeartBrian Bird, Michelle Cox3h 24m4.6 (439)$10 · $0.00

Five Little IndiansMichelle Good10h 34m4.5 (64.5K)$29 · $0.00

View all