The Young Ice Whalers

The Young Ice Whalers

By Winthrop Packard
Michael Caine
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Length8h 48m

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Excerpt: ""I will do what I can to help make matters easy, father." The speaker was a handsome, well-built boy of seventeen, with a frank, winsome face that ordinarily showed neither strength nor weakness of character,—the face of a boy out of whom circumstances make much that is good, or sometimes much that is ill, according to what experiences life brings him. There are boys who will grow up strong and able men, anyway. They seem to have it in them from the start. There are others who have an inborn tendency to evil and dissipation, which no amount of training and opportunity for better things can eradicate. Harry Desmond was of neither of these types; his character was rather that which responds easily to outside influences, whose weaknesses may easily grow upon it, or whose strong points may be developed and brought out by use. "Thank you, my son," said the other simply, extending his hand; "I was very sure you would. The business will of course go on, and may be built up again with care and strict economy; but the outside investments, whose returns have made us well-to-do, and from which the money for your education was coming, are totally swept away. I'm afraid we shall have to withdraw you from the preparatory school. It is an expensive place, and just at present I do not feel able to supply you with the money necessary to keep up your standing among the boys there. In another year I had hoped to see you in the freshman class at Harvard, and that may yet be managed. There are always scholarships to be had.""

Audiobook details

GenreBiography and Memoir, Travel
Length8 hrs 48 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateApr 6, 2022
LanguageEnglish

Table of contents

1CHAPTER I A CHANGE IN LIFE’S PLANS
2CHAPTER II BOUND FOR THE ARCTIC
3CHAPTER III BUCKING ICE IN BERING SEA
4CHAPTER IV THE LITTLE MEN OF THE DIOMEDES
5CHAPTER V WHEN THE ICE CAME IN
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6CHAPTER VI WINTER LIFE AND INNUIT FRIENDS
7CHAPTER VII THE GHOST WOLVES OF THE NUNATAK
8CHAPTER VIII WHALING IN EARNEST
9CHAPTER IX IN THE ENEMY’S POWER
10CHAPTER X “THE FEAST OF THE OLD SEAL’S HEAD”
11CHAPTER XI “THE VILLAGE WHERE NO ONE LIVES”
12CHAPTER XII IN THE HEART OF BLIZZARDS
13CHAPTER XIII THE MEETING OF TRIBES
14CHAPTER XIV STAKING OUT A FORTUNE
15CHAPTER XV HOME AGAIN

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