In the Sargasso Sea
In the Sargasso Sea follows a young engineer on his perilous voyage to Africa, where he faces treachery, shipwrecks, and the eerie challenges of the Sargasso Sea, all of which test his survival instincts and resolve.
By Thomas A. Janvier · First published 1898 · Genre: Adventure, Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction · 39 chapters
Contents
- I Pay for my Passage to Loango
- How I Boarded the Brig _golden Hind_
- I have a Scare, and Get over It
- Captain Luke Makes me an Offer
- I Give Captain Luke my Answer
- I Tie up my Broken Head, and Try to Attract Attention
- I Encounter a Good Doctor and a Violent Gale
- The "Hurst Castle" is Done For
- On the Edge of the Sargasso Sea
- I Take a Cheerful View of a Bad Situation
- My Good Spirits are Wrung out of Me
- I have a Fever and See Visions
- I Hear a Strange Cry in the Night
- Of my Meeting with a Murdered Man
- I have some Talk with a Murderer
- I Rid myself of Two Dead Men
- How I Walked myself into a Maze
- I Find the Key to a Sea Mystery
- Of a Good Plan that Went Wrong with Me
- How I Spent a Night Wearily
- My Thirst is Quenched, and I Find a Compass
- I Get some Food in me and Form a Crazy Plan
- How I Started on a Journey Due North
- Of what I Found Aboard a Spanish Galleon
- I am the Master of a Great Treasure
- Of a Strange Sight that I Saw in the Night-Time
- I Set myself to a Heavy Task
- How I Rubbed Shoulders with Despair
- I Get into a Sea Charnel-House
- I Come to the Wall of my Sea-Prison
- How Hope Died out of my Heart
- I Fall in with a Fellow-Prisoner
- I Make a Glad Discovery
- I End a Good Job Well, and Get a Set-Back
- I am Ready for a Fresh Hazard of Fortune
- How my Cat Promised me Good Luck
- How my Cat Still Farther Cheered Me
- How I Fought my Way through the Sargasso Weed
- Why my Cat Called out to Me
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