Blown to Bits

By Ballantyne, Robert Michael

Book Id: WPLBN0000626115
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Reproduction Date: 2005

Title:	Blown to Bits
Author:	Ballantyne, Robert Michael
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Language:	English
Subject:	Literature, Literature & thought, Writing.
Collections:	Classic Literature Collection, Blackmask Online Collection
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Publisher:	Blackmask Online


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Description
Excerpt: Chapter One. The Play Commences. Blown to bits; bits so inconceivably, so ineffably, so ?microscopically? small that?but let us not anticipate. About the darkest hour of a very dark night, in the year 1883, a large brig lay becalmed on the Indian Ocean, not far from that region of the Eastern world which is associated in some minds with spices, volcanoes, coffee, and piratical junks, namely, the Malay Archipelago. Two men slowly paced the brig?s quarterdeck for some time in silence, as if the elemental quietude which prevailed above and below had infected them. Both men were broad, and apparently strong. One of them was tall; the other short. More than this the feeble light of the binnacle?lamp failed to reveal.

Table of Contents
Table of Contents: Blown to Bits, 1 -- R.M. Ballantyne, 1 -- Chapter One. The Play Commences, 2 -- Chapter Two. The Haven in the Coral Ring, 4 -- Chapter Three. Interesting Particulars of Various Kinds, 8 -- Chapter Four. Nigel Undergoes some quite New and Interesting Experiences, 13 -- Chapter Five. Captain Roy surprises and gratifies his Son, who surprises a Negro, and suddenly -- forms an Astonishing Resolve, 18 -- Chapter Six. The Hermit of Rakata Introduced, 23 -- Chapter Seven. Wonders of the Hermit's Cave and Island, 29 -- Chapter Eight. Perboewatan becomes moderately Violent, 34 -- Chapter Nine. Describes, among other Things, a Singular Meeting under Peculiar Circumstances, 38 -- Chapter Ten. A Curious Sea?Going Craft?The Unknown Voyage begun, 42 -- Chapter Eleven. Canoeing on the Sea?A Mysterious Night?Surprise and Sudden Flight, 46 -- Chapter Twelve. Weathering a Storm in The Open Sea, 52 -- Chapter Thirteen. Friends are met with, also Pirates, and a Life?or?Death Paddle ensues, 57 -- Chapter Fourteen. A New Friend found?New Dangers encountered and New Hopes Delayed, 65 -- Chapter Fifteen. Hunting the Great Man?Monkey, 70 -- Chapter Sixteen. Begins with a Terrible Fight and ends with a Hasty Flight, 76 -- Chapter Seventeen. Tells of the Joys, etcetera, of the Professor in the Sumatran Forests, also of a -- Catastrophe averted, 81 -- Chapter Eighteen. A Trying Ordeal?Danger threatens and Flight again resolved on, 86 -- Chapter Nineteen. A Terrible Murder and a Strange Revelation, 90 -- Chapter Twenty. Nigel makes a Confidant of Moses?Undertakes a Lonely Watch and sees -- something Wonderful, 96 -- Chapter Twenty One. In which the Professor distinguishes himself, 103 -- Chapter Twenty Two. A Python discovered and a Geyser interviewed, 110 -- Chapter Twenty Three. Tells of Volcanic Fires and a Strange Return ?Home.?, 113 -- Chapter Twenty Four. An Awful Night and Terrible Morning, 120 -- Chapter Twenty Five. Adventures of the ?Sunshine and an Unexpected Reunion, 126 -- Chapter Twenty Six. A Climax, 133 -- Chapter Twenty Seven. ?Blown to Bits.?, 137 -- Chapter Twenty Eight. The Fate of the ?Sunshine.?, 139 -- Chapter Twenty Nine. Tells Chiefly of the Wonderful Effects of this Eruption on the World at -- Large, 142 -- Chapter Thirty. Coming Events, etcetera?Wonderful Changes among the Islands, 147 -- Chapter Thirty One. Ends with a Struggle between Inclination and Duty, 152 -- Chapter Thirty Two. The Last, 156 -- The End, 161