The Island of Appledore


Read by Roger Melin

(4 stars; 28 reviews)

Any one who knows the coast of New England will know also the Island of Appledore and just where it lies. Such a person can tell you that it is not exactly the place described in this book, that it is small and bare and rocky with no woods, no meadows, no church, or mill, or mill-creek road. Perhaps all that the story tells of it that is true is that there the rocks give forth their strange deep song, “the calling of Appledore,” as warning of a storm, that there the poppies bloom as nowhere else in the world, that there the surf comes rolling in, day in and day out, the whole year through, and that there one’s memory turns back with longing, no matter how many years of absence have gone by.

There, also, you can sit for hours to watch the huge, green breakers come foaming and tumbling in endless procession up the stony beach; you can watch the nimble sandpipers and the tireless, wheeling gulls; and if you choose you can spin for yourself just such a story as this one of Billy Wentworth and Captain Saulsby and Sally Shute, a tale of mysteries and perils and midnight adventures on the shores of Appledore. - Summary by the author's foreward (4 hr 48 min)

Chapters

Peering Eyes 27:54 Read by Roger Melin
The Mill-Creek Road 25:49 Read by Roger Melin
The Cruise of the Josephine 31:16 Read by Roger Melin
Captain Saulsby's Watch 19:12 Read by Roger Melin
The War Game 20:26 Read by Roger Melin
The Ebbing of the Tide 19:55 Read by Roger Melin
Mist and Moonlight 23:59 Read by Roger Melin
The Stranger at the Mill 18:40 Read by Roger Melin
The Calling of the Island 23:41 Read by Roger Melin
Three Quarters of a Year 21:39 Read by Roger Melin
The Watchfires of Appledore 27:29 Read by Roger Melin
The Last Voyage of Johann Happs 28:27 Read by Roger Melin

Reviews

What books are meant to be, excellent reading.


(5 stars)

well read jingoism


(1 stars)

No parental control An impressionable juvenile blindly following a dangerous delusional absolute failed seaman that lives alone on inherited land.