Adrift in Pacific and Other Great Adventures – 17 Titles in One Volume (Illustrated Edition). Jules Verne
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| Автор произведения | Jules Verne |
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Jules Verne
Adrift in Pacific and Other Great Adventures – 17 Titles in One Volume (Illustrated Edition)
The Lesser Known Works from the Father of Science Fiction and the Famous Author of 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, Journey to the Center of the Earth and Around the World in 80 days Translator: Virginia Champlin, A. Estoclet, Laura E. Kendall, Mary de Hauteville, N. D'Anvers, W. H. G. Kingston,Illustrator: Édouard Riou, Léon Benett, George Roux
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Table of Contents
Adrift in Pacific or, Two Years' Vacation
Michael Strogoff: or, The Courier of the Czar
Tribulations of a Chinaman in China
North Against South or, Texar’s Revenge
The Flight to France or, The Memoirs of a Dragoon
The Star of the South or, The Vanished Diamond
Ticket No. “9672” or, The Lottery Ticket
Adrift in Pacific or, Two Years' Vacation
CHAPTER III. The First Day Ashore
CHAPTER IV. The View From The Cape
CHAPTER XV. The Enemy In Sight
CHAPTER XVI. Diamond Cut Diamond
CHAPTER XVII. The Fortune Of War
CHAPTER XVIII. Afloat Once More
CHAPTER I.
The Storm
It was the 9th of March, 1860, and eleven o'clock at night. The sea and sky were as one, and the eye could pierce but a few fathoms into the gloom. Through the raging sea, over which the waves broke with a livid light, a little ship was driving under almost bare poles.
She was a schooner of a hundred tons. Her name was the Sleuth, but you would have sought it in vain on her stern, for an accident of some sort had torn it away.
In this latitude, at the beginning of March, the nights are short. The day would dawn about five o'clock. But would the dangers that threatened the schooner grow less when the sun illumined the sky ? Was not the frail vessel at the mercy of the waves ? Undoubtedly; and only the calming of the billows and the lulling of the gale could save her from that most awful of shipwrecks—foundering in the open sea far from any coast on which the survivors might find safety.
In the stern of the schooner were three boys, one about fourteen, the two others about thirteen years of age; these, with a young negro some twelve years old, were at the wheel, and with their united strength strove to check the lurches which threatened every instant to throw the vessel broadside on. It was a difficult task, for the wheel seemed as though it would turn in spite of all they could do, and hurl them against the bulwarks.