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

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09/13/22

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214m

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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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New Discoveries at Jamestown by John L. Cotter ~ Full Audiobook [history]

September 13, 2022

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132m

New Discoveries at Jamestown by John L. Cotter audiobook.

Genre: history

Chances are, you are reading this because you are aware that Jamestown, Virginia, celebrated its 400th birthday in 2007. It was the first 'successful' English settlement in America. Although the colonists eventually moved upriver to be quit of the hard luck and difficult conditions on the small island, they left behind a trove of possessions - used, worn out, or forgotten.

Did you ever stop to consider just how many different items you have, need, or use, to live, work, and amuse yourself? Chances are that you would seriously underestimate! But once you put such a list together, another person could tell quite a story about the life you lead.

The puzzle of archeology is how to tell that story, just from the discovery of the traces you leave behind. Literally hundreds of thousands of artifacts have been recovered from this pioneering community during three major efforts (1903, the 1950's, and 1994-present) to reconstruct how Europeans of the early 17th century managed to transplant themselves to a wild and hostile land.

The authors, writing for the National Park Service in 1956, relate a fascinating tale of the colonists' resources, their possessions, and their manufactures. They relate documentary evidence from England, Virginia, and elsewhere, and then match it up with items found on the site.

Think about packing for a trip to a new world, where you will spend the rest of your life. There are no shops, no regular supply deliveries. You will build your own home. Food is strictly grown or caught on your own. The local folks (Indians) may be (and were, at some times!) hostile to your presence. You will depend on only a few dozen other people to help you with the things you don't know how to do, and they will depend on you. How do you prepare? What do you take?

This is that story.

Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 1

(00:04:07) Chapter 2

(00:31:37) Chapter 3

(01:12:25) Chapter 4

(01:27:20) Chapter 5

(01:34:39) Chapter 6

(01:49:15) Chapter 7

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

September 14, 2022

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128m

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