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Asiatic Breezes

Asiatic Breezes by Oliver Optic is available here as the complete text, split into 812 reading sections of 5 sentences, each with audio and tap-to-define vocabulary.

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Asiatic Breezes by Oliver Optic. Complete source text from Project Gutenberg eBook #25620.

36 chaptersComplete chronicle
Five linesIn each reading
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Academic course · 36 chapters

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Asiatic Breezes

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  1. Chapter I 22 readings five lines each Open chapter
  2. Chapter II 19 readings five lines each Open chapter
  3. Chapter III 18 readings five lines each Open chapter
  4. Chapter IV 23 readings five lines each Open chapter
  5. Chapter V 21 readings five lines each Open chapter
  6. Chapter VI 22 readings five lines each Open chapter
  7. Chapter VII 24 readings five lines each Open chapter
  8. Chapter VIII 22 readings five lines each Open chapter
  9. Chapter IX 24 readings five lines each Open chapter
  10. Chapter X 22 readings five lines each Open chapter
  11. Chapter XI 24 readings five lines each Open chapter
  12. Chapter XII 25 readings five lines each Open chapter
  13. Chapter XIII 24 readings five lines each Open chapter
  14. Chapter XIV 23 readings five lines each Open chapter
  15. Chapter XV 23 readings five lines each Open chapter
  16. Chapter XVI 20 readings five lines each Open chapter
  17. Chapter XVII 21 readings five lines each Open chapter
  18. Chapter XVIII 19 readings five lines each Open chapter
  19. Chapter XIX 23 readings five lines each Open chapter
  20. Chapter XX 23 readings five lines each Open chapter
  21. Chapter XXI 22 readings five lines each Open chapter
  22. Chapter XXII 23 readings five lines each Open chapter
  23. Chapter XXIII 22 readings five lines each Open chapter
  24. Chapter XXIV 20 readings five lines each Open chapter
  25. Chapter XXV 23 readings five lines each Open chapter
  26. Chapter XXVI 18 readings five lines each Open chapter
  27. Chapter XXVII 24 readings five lines each Open chapter
  28. Chapter XXVIII 23 readings five lines each Open chapter
  29. Chapter XXIX 19 readings five lines each Open chapter
  30. Chapter XXX 21 readings five lines each Open chapter
  31. Chapter XXXI 19 readings five lines each Open chapter
  32. Chapter XXXII 23 readings five lines each Open chapter
  33. Chapter XXXIII 17 readings five lines each Open chapter
  34. Chapter XXXIV 20 readings five lines each Open chapter
  35. Chapter XXXV 23 readings five lines each Open chapter
  36. Chapter XXXVI 39 readings five lines each Open chapter

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Is this the complete text of Asiatic Breezes?

Yes. All 4059 sentences of Project Gutenberg eBook #25620 are kept, with a record of which sentences cover which part.

Which edition of Asiatic Breezes is used?

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How long does Asiatic Breezes take to read?

About 338 minutes of reading across 812 sections of 5 sentences each, at an unhurried pace.

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Series
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