Thomas Musgrave — Castaway on the Auckland Isles — Talking Hologram Book
Hear the book talk first — this preview plays the book's own stage: Captain Musgrave himself reading his own journal aloud in Alan's voice while his own sketch map and his mate's engravings pass behind. The full book runs about 5.3 hours.
On the book's own stage, the Captain talks: he reads the whole of Thomas Musgrave's “Castaway on the Auckland Isles” (1865) — the wreck of the schooner Grafton in Carnley Harbour on the third of January 1864, and the twenty months on Auckland Island in the sub-Antarctic south of New Zealand: the house and the forge his five men built, the school and the Bible readings they kept, the seals and birds they lived on, and at last the vessel they made themselves — the wreck's dinghy, lengthened and decked with island timber and iron of their own forging — which the captain and two of his men sailed to Stewart Island in July 1865, sending the relief ship Flying Scud back for George Harris and Henry Folgee, who had remained behind; every man of the five lived — read aloud in Alan's voice, with “The Larboard Watch,” sung by S. H. Dudley and Harry Macdonough in 1901, underneath, while the captain's own sketch map of the islands and the engravings from his mate François Raynal's “Wrecked on a Reef” (1874) pass behind. At the back of the book, set apart and labelled as not the captain's, stands the book's own appendix on the Invercauld — wrecked on the north-west end of the same island in May 1864, while the Grafton men were living at its southern harbour, the two companies never knowing of each other — told in her own captain George Dalgarno's letter and the publishers' note. Musgrave published in 1865 — his hundred years have long run, and his own words are read exactly as he printed them: nothing added, nothing cut, nothing rewritten.
franklinlangston.gumroad.com/l/dmpygu — $39
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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