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The Survivors of the Chancellor
The Survivors of the Chancellor
The Survivors of the Chancellor
Audiobook5 hours

The Survivors of the Chancellor

Written by Jules Verne

Narrated by John Bolen

Rating: 4 out of 5 stars

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Mr. Kazallon thought that booking passage on a cargo ship from Charleston to Liverpool would be a charming way to return to his English homeland. If he only knew! A crazed sea captain, a disaster in the hold, storms, oppressive heat, sharks, and starvation are just some of the many travails that beset both passengers and crew. Will any of them survive the wreck of the Chancellor?
LanguageEnglish
Release dateJun 22, 2009
ISBN9781400180929
Author

Jules Verne

Jules Gabriel Verne was born in the seaport of Nantes, France, in 1828 and was destined to follow his father into the legal profession. In Paris to train for the bar, he took more readily to literary life, befriending Alexander Dumas and Victor Hugo, and living by theatre managing and libretto-writing. His first science-based novel, Five Weeks in a Balloon, was issued by the influential publisher Pierre-Jules Hetzel in 1862, and made him famous. Verne and Hetzel collaborated to write dozens more such adventures, including 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea in 1869 and Around the World in 80 Days in 1872. In later life Verne entered local politics at Amiens, where had had a home. He also kept a house in Paris, in the street now named Boulevard Jules Verne, and a beloved yacht, the Saint Michel, named after his son. He died in 1905.

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  • Rating: 2 out of 5 stars
    2/5
    I may have actually liked this book had I been able to read the print copy. Unfortunately I will never know. I was stuck listening to the audiobook narrated by John Bolen, as it was all my library had. What a terrible narrator! He kept slipping in and out of accents, which were god awful anyway. On top of that, I've seen people do the thorazine shuffle with more enthusiasm than Bolen could muster in his narration. At least it was short.

  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    An amazingly gripping, dramatic and in places quite horrific and even, towards the end, occasionally disgusting story of the survivors of a ship stranded on a raft after their ship sinks. This is not one of Verne's better known stories, but for me it is way up there with his most famous works in terms of dramatic tension, and miles better than other of his less celebrated efforts I have read recently, such as Black Diamonds, Hunt for the Meteor, To the Sun/Off on a Comet or Carpathian Castle.