Courage, True Hearts
Courage, True Hearts by Gordon Stables is available here as the complete text, split into 896 reading sections of 5 sentences, each with audio and tap-to-define vocabulary.
Courage, True Hearts: Sailing in Search of Fortune by Gordon Stables. Complete source text from Project Gutenberg eBook #39729.
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Courage, True Hearts
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- Chapter I
- Chapter II Hurrah for "Merrie England"!
- Chapter III
- Chapter IV Wild Sports on Moorland and Ice
- Chapter V A Highland Blizzard--the Lost Sheep and Shepherd
- Chapter VI "The Breath of God Was Over All the Land."
- Chapter VII The Parting Comes at Last
- Chapter VIII The Terrors of the Ocean
- Chapter IX A Fearful Experience
- Chapter X Bound for Southern Seas of Ice
- Chapter XI On the Wings of the Wind
- Chapter XII
- Chapter XIII "Back Water All! for Life, Boys, for Life!"
- Chapter XIV "Here’s to the Loved Ones at Home."
- Chapter XV Captain Talbot Spins a Yarn
- Chapter XVI Tongues of Lurid Fire, Blue, Green, and Deepest Crimson
- Chapter XVII So Poor Conal Must Perish!
- Chapter XVIII Thus Hand in Hand the Brothers Sleep
- Chapter XIX Winter Life in an Antarctic Pack
- Chapter XX A Chaos of Rolling and Dashing Ice
- Chapter XXI
- Chapter XXII The Isles of Desolation
- Chapter XXIII Shipwreck on a Lonely Isle
- Chapter XXIV A Weary Time
- Chapter XXV Children of the Sky
- Chapter XXVI Treasure-Hunters. the Forest
- Chapter XXVII Fighting the Gorillas
- Chapter XXVIII
- Chapter XXIX The Mysterious Stone
- Chapter XXX The Battle at the Ford
- Chapter XXXI
- Chapter XXXII
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Project Gutenberg eBook #39729, unabridged. The Project Gutenberg header, footer and licence are removed.
How long does Courage, True Hearts take to read?
About 373 minutes of reading across 896 sections of 5 sentences each, at an unhurried pace.
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- Author
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- Naval
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- Cadet
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- Liberty
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