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The Survivors of the Chancellor

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  1. Introduction

    4:05

  2. The Chancellor

    3:52

  3. Crew and Passengers

    4:14

  4. Bill of Lading

    2:50

  5. Something About My Fellow Passengers

    9:01

  6. An Unusual Route

    4:34

  7. The Sargasso Sea

    5:08

  8. Voices in the Night

    6:49

  9. Fire on Board

    4:37

  10. Curtis Explains the Situation

    5:13

  11. Picrate of Potash on Board

    5:21

  12. The Passengers Discover Their Danger

    5:21

  13. Curtis Becomes Captain

    7:13

  14. Between Fire and Water

    7:42

  15. Breakers to Starboard!

    5:09

  16. Shipwrecked

    4:37

  17. Sila Huntly Rescued from the Waves

    10:13

  18. M. Letourneur is Pessimistic

    4:57

  19. We Explore the Reef

    8:26

  20. The Cargo Unloaded

    4:19

  21. Examination of the Hold

    7:02

  22. The 'Chancellor' Released from her Prison

    5:12

  23. A New Danger

    4:13

  24. An Attempt at Mutiny

    3:51

  25. Curtis Resolves to Abandon the Ship

    4:35

  26. While There's Life There's Hope

    5:06

  27. Mr. Kear Makes a Business Deal

    6:57

  28. The Whale-Boat Missing

    4:15

  29. Mrs. Kear Succumbs to Fever

    3:23

  30. We Embark on the Raft

    3:28

  31. Our Situation Critical

    2:50

  32. First Day on the Raft

    5:02

  33. We Catch a Supply of Fish

    6:43

  34. Mutiny on the Raft

    6:04

  35. A Squall

    4:33

  36. Two Sailors Washed Overboard

    5:27

  37. We lose Nearly All our Provisions

    3:07

  38. Lieutenant Walter's Condition

    6:25

  39. Mutiny Again

    7:35

  40. A Father's Love

    6:10

  41. Death of Lieutenant Walter

    4:12

  42. Human Flesh for Bait

    5:44

  43. Oxide of Copper Poisoning

    5:20

  44. Owen's Death

    8:36

  45. The Depths of Despair

    7:24

  46. Our Thirst Relieved

    4:41

  47. My Fast is Broken

    6:09

  48. Hobart Hangs Himself

    5:01

  49. Hobart's Body Stolen

    3:19

  50. The Negro Becomes Insane

    3:35

  51. All Hope Gone

    2:17

  52. Flaypole Becomes Delirious

    4:46

  53. I Decide to Commit Suicide

    6:25

  54. We Decide to Draw Lots

    4:03

  55. Miss Herbey Pleads for One Day More

    4:37

  56. Fresh Water

    4:32

  57. Near the Coast of South America

    2:04

  58. Land Ahoy!

    3:50

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Told as the day-by-day diary of passenger J.R. Kazallon, this is one of Verne's darkest stories. The Chancellor sails from Charleston bound for Liverpool with a cargo that is quietly burning below deck. What begins as an ordinary Atlantic crossing turns into fire, shipwreck, and a slow ordeal on a makeshift raft, where thirst, hunger, and finally the temptation of cannibalism strip the survivors down to raw instinct. Verne wrote it with a cold, documentary realism, drawing on real accounts of disaster at sea, and it stands well apart from his lighter adventures. First published in 1875, it remains a gripping study of how people behave when rescue never comes.

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Jules Verne

Jules Gabriel Verne was a French novelist, poet, and playwright.

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Book facts

First published
1875
Reading time
About 4 hours
Pages
161
Language
English
Formats
PDF, EPUB, Read online, Audiobook
Audio read by
Joseph DeNoia