I love to read, but I don’t have the time to sit down with a good book as often as I’d like. A lot of people are in that same boat, I think. So I’ve started narrating Audio Books for you to enjoy whenever is most convenient. I’m starting with pirate themed fiction. If you’d like to hear me narrate non-fiction like The Buccaneers of America and A General History of the Pyrates, that’s all on Patreon. But for Treasure Island, Captain Blood, and Peter Pan, you can find them here, with much more to come. Enjoy.
Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
Young Jim Hawkins works at The Admiral Benbow Inn for his mother and father, when a mysterious Mariner arrives with a wooden leg, a looking glass, and a sea chest. The Old Buccaneer will set Jim on an adventure that involves sea travel, mutiny, pirates, and the infamous Long John Silver.
Washington’s War, 1779
Despite great limits of money and manpower, George Washington sought to wage an aggressive war in 1779. He launched the Sullivan-Clinton campaign against Britain’s Iroquois allies in upstate New York, and in response to British attacks up the Hudson River and against coastal Connecticut, he authorized raids on British outposts at Stony Point and Paulus Hook. But given power by Congress to plan and execute operations with the French on a continental scale, Washington planned his boldest campaign. When it appeared that the French would bring a fleet and an army to America, and supported by intelligence from his famed “Culper” spy network, the American commander proposed a joint Franco-American attack on the bastion of British power in North America – New York City – to capture its garrison. Such a blow, he hoped, would end the war in 1779.
No Limits to Their Sway
Following the 1808 French invasion of the Iberian Peninsula, the important port town of Cartagena rejected Spanish authority, finally declaring independence in 1811. Cartagena welcomed merchants, revolutionaries, and adventurers from Venezuela, the Antilles, the United States, and Europe. Based on handwritten and printed sources in Spanish, English, and French, this book tells the story of Cartagena’s multinational and multicultural seafarers, revealing the Trans-Atlantic and maritime dimensions of South American independence.