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The Adventures of Captain Horn
- 396 pages · about 7 hours
- First published 1895
- 29 editions
- Free to read
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1 About this book
Early in the spring of the year 1884 the three-masted schooner Castor, from San Francisco to Valparaiso, was struck by a tornado off the coast of Peru. The storm, which rose with frightful suddenness, was of short duration, but it left the Castor a helpless wreck.
Her masts had snapped off and gone overboard, her rudder-post had been shattered by falling wreckage, and she was rolling in the trough of the sea, with her floating masts and spars thumping and bumping her sides.
Good for readers who want: a classic, a thriller, and a book they can read free online.
- Classics
- Thrillers
- Adventure
- Voyages and travels
- Outdoor life
- Sea stories
- Shipwrecks
- Ship captains
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