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Romance of Modern Exploration

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Exploration
Chapter: 27 | Listen: 9

It may be thought, perhaps, that exploration must be comparatively easy today. Less laborious no doubt it is in some details when Mandeville and Magellan travelled. But there are difficulties enough remaining to leave the romance of exploration untouched. Every explorer carries his life in his hand, however fine may be his outfit. Within the limits of this volume it is impossible even to notice all the modern explorers who have a claim on our admiration. – Summary adapted from the introduction [chương_files]

Sea Fairies

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Action & Adventure
Chapter: 22 | Listen: 4

In 1910, Baum hoped to end the Oz series and follow with a new series about a little girl named Trot and her sailor companion, Cap’n Bill. The Sea Fairies (1911) was the first book in the projected series and took Trot and Cap’n Bill under the sea where they had adventures with mermaids and other fantastic creatures. It was followed by Sky Island (1912) and then Baum returned to the Oz titles. He brought Trot and Cap’n Bill to Oz in the Scarecrow of Oz (1915). (Summary by Judy Bieber) [chương_files]

David and the Phoenix

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Action & Adventure, Children's Fiction
Chapter: 10 | Listen: 1

David knew that one should be prepared for anything when one climbs a mountain, but he never dreamed what he would find that June morning on the mountain ledge. There stood an enormous bird, with a head like an eagle, a neck like a swan, and a scarlet crest. The most astonishing thing was that the bird had an open book on the ground and was reading from it! This was David’s first sight of the fabulous Phoenix and the beginning of a pleasant and profitable partnership. The Phoenix found a great deal lacking in David’s education — he flunked questions like “How do you tell a true from a false Unicorn?” — and undertook to supplement it with a practical education, an education that would be a preparation for Life. The education had to be combined with offensive and defensive measures against a Scientist who was bent on capturing the Phoenix, but the two projects together involved exciting and hilarious adventures for boy and bird. A wonderful read-aloud book, adventurous and very funny, with much of the magic as well as the humor of the fantastic. (Summary from the front flap of the dust jacket.) [chương_files]

Tom Swift in the Land of Wonders

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Action & Adventure
Chapter: 25 | Listen: 3

Tom Swift is the young protagonist in a series of juvenile adventure novels which began in the early twentieth century and continue to the present. Tom Swift is a genius inventor whose breakthroughs in technology (especially transport technology) drive the plots of the novels, placing them in a genre sometimes called “invention fiction” or “Edisonade”. This book is the 20th in the original series published from 1910 -1942, written by a ghost writer using the name of Victor Appleton. This adventure takes Tom and his cohorts to Honduras in search of a Mayan idol of gold. (K. McAsh adapted from information found on Wikipedia) [chương_files]

Moonfleet

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Action & Adventure
Chapter: 24 | Listen:

The novel is set in a fishing village in Dorset during the mid 18th century. The story concerns a 15 year old orphan boy, John Trenchard, who becomes friends with an older man who turns out to be the leader of a gang of smugglers. One night John chances on the smugglers’ store in the crypt beneath the church. He explores but hides behind a coffin when he hears voices. He finds a locket which contains a parchment, in the coffin belonging to Colonel Mohune. Unfortunately after the visitors leave, he finds himself trapped inside, and is only rescued two days later when two of the smugglers, Ratsey, the sexton and Elzevir Block, the innkeeper of the Why Not?, the local pub, investigate his disappearance. His aunt insists he leaves her house and Elzevir Block takes him in to live at the pub. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moonfleet) [chương_files]

Sea and the Jungle

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Exploration, Nature, Travel & Geography
Chapter: 15 | Listen:

Considered one of the greatest travel narratives, The Sea and the Jungle is H.M. Tomlinson’s firsthand account of the first journey of an English steamer up the Madeira in Brazil. Bored with his unfulfilling job in London, Tomlinson boards the steamer “Capella” at Swansea and embarks on a journey to deliver supplies to the men building railroads for the rubber harvest. The book overflows with vivid descriptions of the sea voyage and the tropics, as well as Tomlinson’s dry sense of humor and observations. In his time in the Amazon and at sea, Tomlinson encounters storms, rotted food, yellow fever, angry mules, rapids, mosquitoes, and the foreboding character of the Amazon rainforest. (Summary by Tatiana Chichilla) [chương_files]

Rambles in New Zealand

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Exploration
Chapter: 7 | Listen: 4

John Carne Bidwill came out to Sydney in 1838 to represent his family’s mercantile business. Finding that he had time on his hands he decided to make a journey to New Zealand with the intention of penetrating to the high mountains in the interior of the North Island. This is the story of that journey—that of the first white man to climb Mt. Tongariro and the attendant adventures associated with such. Intermixed is commentary on the botany of that part of New Zealand and the language of the Ma̅ori people. – Summary by Beeswaxcandle [chương_files]

Rinkitink in Oz (version 2)

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Action & Adventure, Dramatic Readings
Chapter: 26 | Listen:

Prince Inga lives a happy life on the island of Pingaree until one day invaders from the north enslave every person on the island, including his parents. Inga, who escaped unnoticed in an apple tree, visiting King Rinkitink who had fallen in a well, and surly talking donkey Bilbil embark on a quest to save the Pingareeans. Armed only with three magic pearls that imbue strength, invincibility, and wisdom, the three take on the open sea, the military might of the islands of Regos and Coregos, and the Nome King. (Summary by Scott Sherris) Narrated by : Robin, Kara Shallenberg, Ed Good, Julian Mackintosh, Cynthia Lyons, Joan Freeman, Kalynda, Kira Belkin, Melissa, Mark F. Smith and Sy. Cast of Characters : – King Kitticut (chapters 01-03, 17, 23 & 24) read by Muhammad Mussnoon – Prince Inga (chapters 01-08, 10, 13-16, 18, 21, 24) read by Henry Frigon – The White Pearl (chapters 01, 05, 08, 14 & 18) read by Alana Jordan – Rinkitink (chapters 02-08, 10, 13, 14, 16, 18, 19, 21-24) read by Angleet – Bilbil (chapters 02-08, 13, 14, 16, 19, 21 & 24) read by Chugosh – The Regos Warriors (chapters 03, 07 & 14) read by Padraig O’hIceadha – The Palace Maid (chapter 08) read by onemagdelen – Nikobob (chapters 09, 11 & 16) read by [Marion](http://librivox.org/sandpit/librivox_catalog – ) – Zella’s Mother (chapter 09) read by Ada Kerman – Queen Cor (chapters 10, 13, 15 & 17) read by Jennifer Lott – King Gos […]

Lost City

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Action & Adventure
Chapter: 32 | Listen: 4

Bruno and Waldo Gillespie are orphaned brothers living with the extremely eccentric Professor Phaeton Featherwit. One day they set off in one of the professor’s machines to investigate a tornado at close range and accidentally get sucked into it! They are then transported by the tornado and find themselves in a barren, uncharted wasteland wherein lies a city– a long lost Aztec city! Find out what happens next to the brothers and the professor in this harrowing and exhilarating adventure! Description by Kehinde [chương_files]

Fame and Fortune

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Action & Adventure, General Fiction
Chapter: 23 | Listen: 9

Richard Hunter, formerly Ragged Dick, continues to advance in the world through luck and excellent morals. He, along with his friend Henry, moves into a better boarding house and then finds a promising job. He is framed for theft by a jealous co-worker and ends up in jail. He is exonerated, given his job back, and then is promoted. He eventually works his way up the ladder and becomes quite successful. (Written by Alys Attewater and Barry Eads) [chương_files]