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The Island of Appledore

Gelesen von Roger Melin

(4,036 Sterne; 28 Bewertungen)

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

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The Last Voyage of Johann Happs

28:27

Read by Roger Melin

Bewertungen

What books are meant to be, excellent reading.

(5 Sterne)

well read jingoism

(1 Sterne)

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