The Blockade Runners by Jules Verne ~ Full Audiobook [adventure]

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09/14/22

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128m

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The Blockade Runners by Jules Verne audiobook.

Genre: adventure

Writing at the end of the American Civil War, Verne weaves this story of a Scottish merchant who, in desperation at the interruption of the flow of Southern cotton due to the Union blockade, determines to build his own fast ship and run guns to the Confederates in exchange for the cotton piling up unsold on their wharves. His simple plan becomes complicated by two passengers who board his new ship under false pretenses in order to carry out a rescue mission, one which Capt. Playfair adopts as his own cause. This is going make the Rebels in Charleston rather unhappy with him.

Sure, his new ship is fast - but can it escape the cannonballs of both North and South?

Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 01

(00:12:25) Chapter 02

(00:24:54) Chapter 03

(00:38:41) Chapter 04

(00:53:53) Chapter 05

(01:07:02) Chapter 06

(01:18:02) Chapter 07

(01:28:31) Chapter 08

(01:45:31) Chapter 09

(01:59:49) Chapter 10

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The Point of Honor by Joseph Conrad ~ Full Audiobook [drama]

September 13, 2022

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214m

The Point of Honor by Joseph Conrad audiobook.

Genre: drama

Set during the Napoleonic Wars, this story features two French Hussar officers, D'Hubert and Feraud. Their quarrel over an initially minor incident turns into a bitter, long-drawn out struggle over the following fifteen years, interwoven with the larger conflict that provides its backdrop. At the beginning, Feraud is the one who jealously guards his honor and repeatedly demands satisfaction anew when a duelling encounter ends inconclusively; he aggressively pursues every opportunity to locate and duel his foe. As the story progresses, D'Hubert also finds himself caught up in the contest, unable to back down or walk away.

This Conrad short story evidently has its genesis in the real duels that two French Hussar officers fought in the Napoleonic era. Their names were Dupont and Fournier, which Conrad disguised slightly, changing Dupont into D'Hubert and Fournier into Feraud. In 1977, it was turned into a movie, 'The Duellists', starring Keith Carradine and Harvey Keitel.

Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 1

(00:49:04) Chapter 2

(01:34:09) Chapter 3

(02:22:33) Chapter 4

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The Master of the World by Jules Verne ~ Full Audiobook [scifi]

September 14, 2022

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304m

The Master of the World by Jules Verne audiobook.

Genre: scifi

Chief Inspector Strock gets the tough cases. When a volcano suddenly appears to threaten mountain towns of North Carolina amid the non-volcanic Blue Ridge Mountains, Strock is posted to determine the danger. When an automobile race in Wisconsin is interrupted by the unexpected appearance of a vehicle traveling at multiples of the top speed of the entrants, Strock is consulted. When an odd-shaped boat is sighted moving at impossible speeds off the New England coast, Stock and his boss begin to wonder if the incidents are related. And when Strock gets a hand-lettered note warning him to abandon his investigation, on pain of death, he is intrigued rather than deterred.

Set in a period when gasoline engines were in their infancy and automobiles were rare, and when even Chief Inspectors had to engage a carriage and horses to move about, the appearance of a vehicle that can move at astounding speeds on land, on water - and as later revealed, underwater and through the air - marks a technological advance far beyond the reach of nations. It is technology invented by and for the sole benefit of a man who styles himself (with some justification) 'The Master of the World.'

This book is a sequel to an earlier Verne novel, 'Robur the Conqueror', but enough detail is given to fully appreciate this story without having first read the other.

Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 1

(00:15:42) Chapter 2

(00:32:13) Chapter 3

(00:55:21) Chapter 4

(01:12:26) Chapter 5

(01:29:36) Chapter 6

(01:40:51) Chapter 7

(01:58:29) Chapter 8

(02:18:04) Chapter 9

(02:20:24) Chapter 10

(02:34:56) Chapter 11