Beyond the Great South Wall
Beyond the Great South Wall by Frank (Frank Mackenzie) Savile is available here as the complete text, split into 821 reading sections of 5 sentences, each with audio and tap-to-define vocabulary.
Beyond the Great South Wall: The Secret of the Antarctic by Frank (Frank Mackenzie) Savile. Complete source text from Project Gutenberg eBook #66187.
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Beyond the Great South Wall
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- Chapter I
- Chapter II The Tale of a Coincidence
- Chapter III The Testimony of Sir John Dorinecourte, Knt
- Chapter IV What Baines Knew
- Chapter V Professor Lessaution’s Opinion
- Chapter VI We Sail South
- Chapter VII A Light in the Darkness
- Chapter VIII Before the Gale
- Chapter IX The Leaping of the Wall
- Chapter X Behind the Barrier
- Chapter XI A Glacier Cave and What Lay Therein
- Chapter XII The Great God Cay
- Chapter XIII A Closed Door
- Chapter XIV In the Ninth Circle
- Chapter XV The Mountain Wakes
- Chapter XVI The Temple and the Lair of Cay
- Chapter XVII A Little Dog’s Stumble
- Chapter XVIII A Desperate Betrothal
- Chapter XIX A Wondrous Breaching of the Wall
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- Beyond
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- Great
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