Jacob Faithful by Frederick MARRYAT (1792 - 1848) Genre(s): Fictional Biographies & Memoirs, Nautical & Marine Fiction Read by: NoelBadrian in English Chapters: 00:00:00 - 38 - Chapter 38 00:22:16 - 39 - Chapter 39 00:50:30 - 40 - Chapter 40 01:09:12 - 41 - Chapter 41 01:27:07 - 42 - Chapter 42 01:50:35 - 43 - Chapter 43 02:05:07 - 44 - Chapter 44 02:23:42 - 45 - Chapter 45 02:45:29 - 46 - Chapter 46 Rebelling against the career chosen for him by his wealthy family, Frederic Marryat joined the Royal Navy in 1806 at the age of 14. He first served as a midshipman in the 38-gun frigate 'HMS Imperieuse' commanded by Lord Cochran, 10th Earl of Dundonald whose real life exploits were used by Marryat in his fiction and which formed the basis for other famous fictional characters like Horatio Hornblower and Jack Aubrey. Having survived more than 50 sea battles and attained the rank of Post Captain, he resigned from the Navy and devoted the rest of his life to writing, drawing a good deal on his distinguished career in the Navy and is now considered the Father of Modern Nautical Fiction. He is also noted as the inventor of an effective lifeboat and a widely used system of communicating at sea by the use of flags.Jacob Faithful is a tale centred on the lives of the Thames watermen who made their living along the tidal reaches of that river and in the Port of London. Particularly it deals with the story of young Jacob literally born and raised on the river. He is orphaned in bizarre circumstances, gets an education, is apprenticed to a bargeman and then to a wherryman before being 'pressed' into the Royal Navy. The book gives an interesting insight into the life of London and it's great river at the beginning of the 19th Century.(Summary by Noel Badrian) More information: http://librivox.org/jacob-faithful-by-frederick-marryat/ LibriVox - free public domain audiobooks (https://librivox.org/)

The Lilac Fairy Book by Andrew LANG (1844 - 1912) Genre(s): Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales Read by: ML Cohen, Becky Miller, katyleah, Lucy Burgoyne (1950 - 2014), Elizabeth McAndrew, Betsie Bush, Jessica AC Snyder, Ted Delorme, Claire Goget, John Lieder, Caitlin Kelly, Lizzie Driver, Missie, Kevin McAsh, Mark F. Smith, Ancilla, Megan Stemm-Wade, Joe Konno, Susie G. in English Chapters: 00:00:00 - 01 - Preface 00:08:48 - 02 - Shifty Lad, Scotland 00:33:42 - 03 - False Prince and True, Portugal 00:49:04 - 04 - Jogi's Punishment, India 01:02:59 - 05 - Heart of a Monkey, Swahili 01:25:54 - 06 - Fairy Nurse, Ireland 01:36:17 - 07 - Lost Paradise, France 01:46:03 - 08 - How Brave Walter Hunted Wolves, Finland 02:05:29 - 09 - King of Waterfalls, Scotland 02:30:44 - 10 - French Puck, France 02:36:42 - 11 - Three Crowns, Scotland 02:54:20 - 12 - Story of a Very Bad Boy, France 03:07:51 - 13 - Brown Bear of Norway, Scotland 03:28:05 - 14 - Little Lasse, Finland 03:45:24 - 15 - Moti, Mid-East 04:03:46 - 16 - Enchanted Deer, Scotland 04:20:51 - 17 - Fish Story, Australia 04:26:32 - 18 - Wonderful Tune, Ireland 04:41:57 - 19 - Rich Brother & Poor Brother, Portugal 05:01:51 - 20 - One-Handed Girl, Swahili 05:30:57 - 21 - Bones of Djulung, Unknown 05:40:48 - 22 - Sea King's Gift, Finland 06:08:23 - 23 - The Raspberry Worm, Finland 06:20:06 - 24 - Stones of Plouhinec, France 06:36:34 - 25 - Castle of Kerglas, France 07:05:32 - 26 - Battle of Birds, Scotland 07:29:50 - 27 - Lady of Fountain, Wales 08:00:12 - 28 - Four Gifts, France 08:18:43 - 29 - Groac'h of Isle of Lok, France 08:35:50 - 30 - Escape of Mouse, Wales 08:52:48 - 31 - Believing Husbands, Scotland 08:59:54 - 32 - Hoodie Crow, Scotland 09:08:55 - 33 - Brownie of Lake, France 09:21:13 - 34 - Winning of Olwen, Wales Andrew Lang's Fairy Books or Andrew Lang's 'Coloured' Fairy Books are a twelve-book series of fairy tale collections. Although Andrew Lang did not collect the stories himself from the oral tradition, the extent of his sources (who had collected them originally), made them an immensely influential collection, especially as he used foreign-language sources, giving many of these tales their first appearance in English. As acknowledged in the prefaces, although Lang himself made most of the selections, his wife and other translators did a large portion of the translating and telling of the actual stories. Many of them were illustrated by Henry J. Ford. Lancelot Speed also did some illustrations. (Summary from Wikipedia) More information: http://librivox.org/the-lilac-fairy-book-edited-by-andrew-lang/