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Across the Salt Seas

Across the Salt Seas by John Bloundelle-Burton is available here as the complete text, split into 912 reading sections of 5 sentences, each with audio and tap-to-define vocabulary.

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Across the Salt Seas: A Romance of the War of Succession by John Bloundelle-Burton. Complete source text from Project Gutenberg eBook #52102.

32 chaptersComplete chronicle

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