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Facing the Flag

by Jules Verne

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First published: 1896
Pages: 150

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01 - Healthful House
26:26
02 - Count D'Artigas
22:23
03 - Kidnapped
20:13
04 - The Schooner Ebba
26:03
05 - Where Am I? (Notes by Simon Hart, the Engineer)
26:46
06 - On Deck
20:59
07 - Two Days at Sea
24:13
08 - Back Cup
23:20
09 - Inside Back Cup
24:07
10 - Ker Karraje
26:01
11 - Five Weeks in Back Cup
18:34
12 - Engineer Serko’s Advice
20:32
13 - God Be with It
12:40
14 - Battle Between the “Sword” and the Tug
21:32
15 - Expectation
19:06
16 - Only a few more Hours
15:40
17 - One against Five
16:16
18 - On Board the “Tonnant”
6:04

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Jules Verne pushes his fascination with machines into darker territory here. Thomas Roch, a French chemist driven half-mad by years of rejection, has invented the Fulgurator, a weapon that can obliterate a warship from a great distance. When no government will meet his price, the pirate Ker Karraje abducts him to a hidden island stronghold and pressures him to build it. Simon Hart, an engineer who poses as Roch's keeper, becomes the reader's eyes as he schemes to stop the launch before a fleet is destroyed. The whole story turns on one moral question: whether even a broken man will fire on his own country's flag.