Tales of the Fish Patrol
Jack London
Read by Don W. Jenkins
Wildest among the fisher-folk may be accounted the Chinese shrimp-catchers. It is the habit of the shrimp to crawl along the bottom in vast armies till it reaches fresh water, when it turns about and crawls back again to the salt. And where the tide ebbs and flows, the Chinese sink great bag-nets to the bottom, with gaping mouths, into which the shrimp crawls and from which it is transferred to the boiling-pot. This in itself would not be bad, were it not for the small mesh of the nets, so small that the tiniest fishes, little new-hatched things not a quarter of an inch long, cannot pass through. The beautiful beaches of Points Pedro and Pablo, where are the shrimp-catchers villages, are made fearful by the stench from myriads of decaying fish, and against this wasteful destruction it has ever been the duty of the fish patrol to act. These stories are set in the waterways around San Francisco Bay and involve the fish patrol with a variety of characters of different ethnicity and cultural backgrounds. ( Description from the opening of "White and Yellow" by Jack London, with addition by Don W. Jenkins) (2 hr 56 min)
Chapters
White and Yellow | 23:04 | Read by Don W. Jenkins |
The King of the Greeks | 24:11 | Read by Don W. Jenkins |
A Raid on the Oyster Pirates | 23:50 | Read by Don W. Jenkins |
The Siege of the Lancashire Queen | 26:10 | Read by Don W. Jenkins |
Charley's Coup | 26:21 | Read by Don W. Jenkins |
Demetrios Contos | 25:30 | Read by Don W. Jenkins |
Yellow Handkerchief | 26:59 | Read by Don W. Jenkins |
Reviews
exciting
adam
An exciting collection of stories of a young man. An engaging quick read that was well narrated. Thank you.
great story
James E
don w makes a story with his reading style many thanks
very entertaining reading, pity for the bad sound quality
Fred Jean Toulouse
great narrating , vivid seatale story
A LibriVox Listener
Patsy McNulty
Such a good book and the reader's voice fits the book perfectly.
Fascinating fisheries enforcement with sails
Chris Jones
Great