The Lost Mine of the Amazon
The Lost Mine of the Amazon by Percy Keese Fitzhugh is available here as the complete text, split into 554 reading sections of 5 sentences, each with audio and tap-to-define vocabulary.
The Lost Mine of the Amazon: A Hal Keen Mystery Story by Percy Keese Fitzhugh. Complete source text from Project Gutenberg eBook #49989.
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The Lost Mine of the Amazon
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- Chapter I
- Chapter II An Intruder
- Chapter III Pizella, the Inscrutable
- Chapter IV A Deck Chase
- Chapter V A Story of the Past
- Chapter VI A Familiar Follower
- Chapter VII Hunches
- Chapter VIII A Dutch Uncle
- Chapter IX Exit Rene
- Chapter X Safety?
- Chapter XI A Vigil
- Chapter XII For the “Cause”
- Chapter XIII Alone and Waiting
- Chapter XIV Rodriguez Has Company
- Chapter XV A Day and a Night
- Chapter XVI With the Morning
- Chapter XVII A Guest of Savages
- Chapter XVIII Convalescence
- Chapter XIX A Prisoner
- Chapter XX The Passing of Big Boy
- Chapter XXI A Jungle Vision
- Chapter XXII Felice and Hal
- Chapter XXIII Some Talk
- Chapter XXIV Old Marcellus
- Chapter XXV After Dinner
- Chapter XXVI A Familiar Voice
- Chapter XXVII
- Chapter XXVIII He Who Risks Nothing
- Chapter XXIX A Snooping Yankee
- Chapter XXX Pale Death
- Chapter XXXI A Decision
- Chapter XXXII The Coronel Goncalves
- Chapter XXXIII Renan!
- Chapter XXXIV A Fear
- Chapter XXXV A Phantom of Hope
- Chapter XXXVI Adios!
This edition of The Lost Mine of the Amazon by Percy Keese Fitzhugh carries the complete text of Project Gutenberg eBook #49989, divided into 36 chapters and 554 reading sections of 5 sentences each. Every sentence of the source is kept, and each chapter records which sentences cover which part of the story. Any word can be tapped for its pronunciation and dictionary entry.
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Rather than presenting The Lost Mine of the Amazon as unbroken pages, the text is grouped into 554 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 sections are gathered into 36 chapters.
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Is this the complete text of The Lost Mine of the Amazon?
Yes. All 2769 sentences of Project Gutenberg eBook #49989 are kept, with a record of which sentences cover which part.
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Project Gutenberg eBook #49989, unabridged. The Project Gutenberg header, footer and licence are removed.
How long does The Lost Mine of the Amazon take to read?
About 230 minutes of reading across 554 sections of 5 sentences each, at an unhurried pace.
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Vocabulary met early in The Lost Mine of the Amazon
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- Lloyd
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- Author
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- Copperhead
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- Trail
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