Bulkeley and Cummins — A Voyage to the South-Seas — Talking Hologram Book
Hear the book talk first — this preview plays the book's own stage: THE READER reading the men's own journal aloud in Alan's voice while the age's own pictures pass behind. No portrait of either man survives, and none has been invented. The full book runs about 4.7 hours.
On the book's own stage, THE READER talks: he reads the whole of John Bulkeley and John Cummins' “A Voyage to the South-Seas, in the Years 1740-1” (1743) — the wreck of His Majesty's ship Wager in the Gulf of Peñas in May 1741, the starvation on the island, the taking of Captain Cheap prisoner, the parting of the company, and the voyage home of the greater part of her people in the ship's long-boat, lengthened and renamed the Speedwell, through the Strait of Magellan and up the coast of Brazil, and so by Rio de Janeiro, Bahia, and Lisbon to Spithead on New Year's Day 1743, thirty men left of eighty-one — read aloud in Alan's voice, with William Boyce's “Heart of Oak” underneath, while the age's own pictures pass behind: Charles Brooking's paintings of the wreck, made in 1744 from this very journal, Lieutenant Brett's own sketch of the ship, and the charts of the Strait of Magellan and the Patagonian coast. Bulkeley and Cummins published in 1743 — their hundred years have long run, and their own words are read exactly as they published them: nothing added, nothing cut, nothing rewritten. This is the long-boat company's side of the Wager quarrel; John Byron's Narrative of 1768, on this same shelf, tells it otherwise.
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PLEASE NOTE — this is a DIGITAL talking book (an e-book that talks): after checkout, Gumroad delivers one file that opens and plays in the browser on your phone, tablet, or computer — you will see the narrator and hear the book read aloud. No physical book is shipped.
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