Blue Lights: Hot Work in the Soudan
Blue Lights: Hot Work in the Soudan by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne is available here as the complete text, split into 880 reading sections of 5 sentences, each with audio and tap-to-define vocabulary.
Blue Lights: Hot Work in the Soudan by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne. Complete source text from Project Gutenberg eBook #21719.
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Blue Lights: Hot Work in the Soudan
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Blue Lights: Hot Work in the Soudan is presented in 11 chapters, each split into sections of 5 sentences for steady reading.
Rather than presenting Blue Lights: Hot Work in the Soudan as unbroken pages, the text is grouped into 880 sections of 5 sentences each. A section is short enough to hold in mind at once, which suits a reader working in a second language or returning to a long work in short sittings. The 11 chapters follow the divisions of the source edition, and each section carries a contextual illustration drawn from the passage it accompanies rather than a stock image.
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Yes. All 4400 sentences of Project Gutenberg eBook #21719 are kept, with a record of which sentences cover which part.
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Project Gutenberg eBook #21719, unabridged. The Project Gutenberg header, footer and licence are removed.
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About 366 minutes of reading across 880 sections of 5 sentences each, at an unhurried pace.
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Vocabulary met early in Blue Lights: Hot Work in the Soudan
Words and structures a reader meets early in Blue Lights: Hot Work in the Soudan, each tappable for pronunciation and meaning.
- Lights
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- Ballantyne
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- Chapter
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- Soudan
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