Drawing on his own experience as a merchant seaman, Russell gives us the fictionalized narrative of one Paul Rodney who found an icebound vessel in the South Atlantic, while captaining a pirate ship. Russell has been hailed as the pre-eminent English writer of his ilk, compared to such American writers as Melville and Dana. - Summary by Lynne Thompson
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Chapters
- Chapter 1
The Storm
12:11 - Chapter 2
The Iceberg
18:21 - Chapter 3
I Lose My Companions
12:39 - Chapter 4
I Quit the Wreck
14:09 - Chapter 5
I Sight a White Coast
17:30 - Chapter 6
An Island of Ice
22:36 - Chapter 7
I am Startled by a Discovery
18:13 - Chapter 8
The Frozen Schooner
18:23 - Chapter 9
I Lose my Boat
20:20 - Chapter 10
Another Startling Discovery
20:09 - Chapter 11
I Make further Discoveries
17:33 - Chapter 12
A Lonely Night
22:10 - Chapter 13
I Explore the Hold and the Forecastle
23:57 - Chapter 14
An Extraordinary Occurrence
24:17 - Chapter 15
The Pirate's Story
37:04 - Chapter 16
I Hear of a Great Treasure
23:57 - Chapter 17
The Treasure
24:09 - Chapter 18
We Talk Over our Situation
16:27 - Chapter 19
We Take a View of the Ice
16:55 - Chapter 20
A Merry Evening
33:48 - Chapter 21
We Explore the Mines
22:45 - Chapter 22
A Change Comes Over the Frenchman
23:42 - Chapter 23
The Ice Breaks Away
29:16 - Chapter 24
The Frenchman Dies
22:50 - Chapter 25
The Schooner Frees Herself
39:14 - Chapter 26
I am Troubled by Thoughts of the Treasure
23:11 - Chapter 27
I Encounter a Whaler
24:02 - Chapter 28
I Strike a Bargain with the Yankee
21:12 - Chapter 29
I Value the Lading
19:17 - Chapter 30
Our Progress to the Channel
16:38 - Chapter 31
The End
18:34 - Chapter 32
Postscript
04:26