Frank Reade, Jr.'s Search for the Silver Whale
Frank Reade, Jr.'s Search for the Silver Whale by Luis Senarens is available here as the complete text, split into 382 reading sections of 5 sentences, each with audio and tap-to-define vocabulary.
Frank Reade, Jr.'s Search for the Silver Whale Or, Under the Ocean in the Electric "Dolphin" by Luis Senarens. Complete source text from Project Gutenberg eBook #55562.
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Frank Reade, Jr.'s Search for the Silver Whale
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- Chapter I
- Chapter II Stanhope Is Satisfied
- Chapter III The Voyage Begun
- Chapter IV The Sunken Wreck—the Shark
- Chapter V Battle with a Whale
- Chapter VI
- Chapter VII Chasing the Silver Whale
- Chapter VIII The Confession Found
- Chapter IX The Valley of Pearls
- Chapter X The Storm
- Chapter XI The Island—on a Reef
- Chapter XII Castaway—rescue
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