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Vagabond Adventures

Gelesen von John Greenman

(4,53 Sterne; 33 Bewertungen)

Ralph Keeler failed as a novelist, but this autobiography reflects a life well-lived with humor and adventure. Keeler was in the same literary circle as satirist Bret Harte, novelist Charles Warren Stoddard, editor Thomas Bailey Aldrich, and essayist William Dean Howells. He so impressed Mark Twain that Twain wrote an essay about him called "Ralph Keeler". In 1873, on his way to Cuba, he reportedly was thrown overboard by a Spanish loyalist who objected to his backing of the revolutionary, anti-Spanish movement. - Summary by John Greenman (5 hr 20 min)

Chapters

BOOK I. AMONG WHARVES AND CABINS. CHAPTER I. Prefatory

3:49

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CHAPTER II. Family Matters

12:10

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CHAPTER III. A Fugitive

13:20

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CHAPTER IV. A Stormy Time

16:08

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CHAPTER V. A Boy’s Paradise

7:44

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CHAPTER VI. The Contumely of Captains

10:09

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CHAPTER VII. Almost a Tragedy

10:56

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CHAPTER VIII. Taken Prisoner

11:03

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CHAPTER IX. Squalor

11:38

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CHAPTER X. A Final Triumph

11:26

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BOOK II. THREE YEARS AS A NEGRO-MINSTREL. CHAPTER I. My First Company

8:57

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CHAPTER II. I become a Beneficiary

10:14

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CHAPTER III. The Fate of the Serenaders

15:39

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CHAPTER IV. The Trials and Triumphs of the “Booker Troupe”

19:13

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CHAPTER V. The Last of the “Booker Troupe”

13:28

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CHAPTER VI. “The Mitchells”

22:05

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CHAPTER VII. On the Floating Palace

17:37

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CHAPTER VIII. Wild Life

21:58

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CHAPTER IX. The Performer Socially

11:13

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CHAPTER X. Adieu to the Stage

8:41

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BOOK III. THE TOUR OF EUROPE FOR $181 IN CURRENCY. CHAPTER I. Starting on a …

8:43

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CHAPTER II. Taking to European Ways

14:31

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CHAPTER III. Student Life and Wanderings

15:17

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CHAPTER IV. A Fight with Famine

13:48

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CHAPTER V. The Conclusion

10:46

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good tale well told

(5 Sterne)

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