The Loss of the Wager — Talking Hologram Book
Hear the book talk first — this preview plays the book's own stage: John Byron himself, in the portrait Sir Joshua Reynolds painted of him in 1759, reading his shipwreck aloud in Alan's voice while the age's own pictures pass behind. The full book runs about 4.0 hours.
On the book's own stage, John Byron himself talks: he reads the whole of his Narrative of the Loss of the Wager (1768) — the wreck of His Majesty's ship Wager in the Guayaneco Archipelago in May 1741, the starvation on the island, the parting of the company, the long journey north among the Indians of those coasts, the surrender to the Spaniards at Chiloé, the captivity in Chile, and the coming home at last in 1746, nearly six years gone — read aloud in Alan's voice, with Thomas Arne's “Rule, Britannia!” of 1740 underneath, while the age's own pictures pass behind: van de Velde's great storm at sea, Seale's chart of the Centurion's track, Bellin's charts of the Patagonian coast and the Strait of Magellan, and the print of 1764 that shows him received by the Patagonians. John Byron was born in 1723 and died a vice-admiral in 1786 — his hundred years have long run, and his own words are read exactly as he published them: nothing added, nothing cut, nothing rewritten.
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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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