Blockade Runners, The by VERNE, Jules

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Writing at the end of the American Civil War, Verne weaves this story of a Scottish merchant who, in desperation at the interruption of the flow of Southern cotton due to the Union blockade, determines to build his own fast ship and run guns to the Confederates in exchange for the cotton piling up unsold on their wharves. His simple plan becomes complicated by two passengers who board his new ship under false pretenses in order to carry out a rescue mission, one which Capt. Playfair adopts as his own cause. This is going make the Rebels in Charleston rather unhappy with him.Sure, his new ship is fast - but can it escape the cannonballs of both North and South? (Summary by Mark Smith)

  • 12 minutes 23 seconds
    01 - The Dolphin
  • 12 minutes 26 seconds
    02 - Getting Under Sail
  • 13 minutes 45 seconds
    03 - Things Are Not What They Seem
  • 15 minutes 10 seconds
    04 - Crockston's Trick
  • 13 minutes 7 seconds
    05 - The Shot From the Iroquois, and Miss Jenny's Arguments
  • 10 minutes 58 seconds
    06 - Sullivan Island Channel
  • 10 minutes 27 seconds
    07 - A Southern General
  • 16 minutes 57 seconds
    08 - The Escape
  • 14 minutes 15 seconds
    09 - Between Two Fires
  • 3 minutes 17 seconds
    10 - St. Mungo
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