The Sphinx of the Ice Fields

The Sphinx of the Ice Fields

By Jules Verne
Michael Caine
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Length8h 56m

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The story is set in 1839, eleven years after the events in Edgar Allan Poe's novel "Arthur Gordon Pym". The narrator is a wealthy American, named Jeorling, who has entertained himself with private studies of the wildlife on the Kerguelen Islands and is now looking for a passage back to the USA. The Halbrane is one of the first ships to arrive at Kerguelen, and its captain Len Guy who somewhat reluctantly agrees to have Jeorling as a passenger. Underway, they meet a stray iceberg with a dead body on it, which turns out to be a sailor from the Jane. A note found with him indicates that he and several others including Jane's captain William Guy had survived the assassination attempt at Tsalal and are still alive… (Excerpt from Wikipedia)

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Rating★★★★ 3.8 (3K)
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GenreGeneral Fiction
Length8 hrs 56 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateDec 27, 2015
LanguageEnglish

Table of contents

1Introduction
2CHAPTER I. THE KERGUELEN ISLANDS
3CHAPTER II. THE SCHOONER HALBRANE
4CHAPTER III. CAPTAIN LEN GUY
5CHAPTER IV. FROM THE KERGUELEN ISLES TO PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND
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6CHAPTER V. EDGAR POE’S ROMANCE
7CHAPTER VI. AN OCEAN WAIF.
8CHAPTER VII. TRISTAN D’ACUNHA.
9CHAPTER VIII. BOUND FOR THE FALKLANDS.
10CHAPTER IX. FITTING OUT THE HALBRANE
11CHAPTER X. THE OUTSET OF THE ENTERPRISE.
12CHAPTER XI. FROM THE SANDWICH ISLANDS TO THE POLAR CIRCLE.
13CHAPTER XII. BETWEEN THE POLAR CIRCLE AND THE ICE WALL.
14CHAPTER XIII. ALONG THE FRONT OF THE ICEBERGS.
15CHAPTER XIV. A VOICE IN A DREAM.
16CHAPTER XV. BENNET ISLET.
17CHAPTER XVI. TSALAL ISLAND.
18CHAPTER XVII. AND PYM?
19CHAPTER XVIII. A REVELATION.
20CHAPTER XIX. LAND?
21CHAPTER XX. “UNMERCIFUL DISASTER”
22CHAPTER XXI. AMID THE MISTS.
23CHAPTER XXII. IN CAMP.
24CHAPTER XXIII. FOUND AT LAST
25CHAPTER XXIV. ELEVEN YEARS IN A FEW PAGES.
26CHAPTER XXV. “WE WERE THE FIRST.”
27CHAPTER XXVI. A LITTLE REMNANT.
28THE END.
29End of the Voyage Extraordinaire

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