Ocean's Story
Ocean's Story by Frank B. (Frank Boott) Goodrich is available here as the complete text, split into 1508 reading sections of 5 sentences, each with audio and tap-to-define vocabulary.
Ocean's Story by Frank B. (Frank Boott) Goodrich. Complete source text from Project Gutenberg eBook #46372.
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Ocean's Story
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- Chapter I The Purpose of this Work--The Ocean in the Scriptural
- Chapter II The Flood and the Building of the Ark--The Arguments of
- Chapter III The Ships, Commerce, and Navigation of the
- Chapter IV Construction of Greek Vessels--The Prow, Poop,
- Chapter V The Voyage of Hanno the Carthaginian--He sees
- Chapter VI The Scandinavian Sailors--Their Piracies and
- Chapter VII The Travels of Marco Polo--The First Mention of
- Chapter VIII The Portuguese on the Coast of Africa--The Spaniards and
- Chapter IX
- Chapter X The Port of Palos--The Superstition of its Mariners--The
- Chapter XI Discovery of Guanahani--Ceremonies of taking
- Chapter XII
- Chapter XIII Da Gama and the Negroes--The Hottentots and
- Chapter XIV Spread of the Portuguese East Indian Empire--Alphonzo
- Chapter XV Ponce de Leon--The Fountain of Youth--Discovery of
- Chapter XVI Discovery of the Philippines--The King of Zubu
- Chapter XVII
- Chapter XVIII Drake's Exploit with a Sleeping Spaniard--His
- Chapter XIX Policy of Queen Elizabeth--Thomas Cavendish--His
- Chapter XX Discovery of the Solomon Islands by Mendana--He seeks
- Chapter XXI Attempts of the Dutch to discover a Northeast
- Chapter XXII The Five Ships of Rotterdam--Battle at the Island of
- Chapter XXIII The Fleet of Joris Spilbergen--Arrival in
- Chapter XXIV A Famous Vessel--The Mayflower--Her
- Chapter XXV
- Chapter XXVI
- Chapter XXVII Piratical Voyage under George Anson--Unparalleled
- Chapter XXVIII The First Scientific Voyage of Circumnavigation--The
- Chapter XXIX Expedition despatched at the Instance of the Royal
- Chapter XXX Cook's Second Voyage--A Storm--Separation of the
- Chapter XXXI
- Chapter XXXII The Transplantation of the Bread-Fruit Tree--The
- Chapter XXXIII Arctic Explorations--Russian Researches under
- Chapter XXXIV Ross's Second Voyage--The North Magnetic
- Chapter XXXV The Second Grinnell Expedition--The Advance in
- Chapter XXXVI Second and Third Attempts to lay the Atlantic
- Chapter XXXVII
- Chapter XXXVIII Dredging in modern times--What it has taught
- Chapter XXXIX Our knowledge of the earth and sea--How it has
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- Period--the
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- Marvels
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- Sea--the
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- Classic
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