Wrecked on a Reef
Contents
- Wrecked on a Reef
- Introduction p. 13
- Chapter I — Object of our Expedition - The Schooner "Grafton" - our Departure p. 23
- Chapter II. — My Comrades - a Tempest - We Arrive at Campbell Island p. 29
- Chapter III — Uselessness of our Explorations - I am taken ill - We Leave Campbell Island p. 36
- Chapter IV. — Appearance of the Seals - The Auckland Islands -a Night of Anguish - the Shipwreck p. 43
- Chapter V. — A Moment of Despair - Our Encampment - a Combat of Sea-Lions - Capture of One of These Animals p. 52
- Chapter VI. — The Blue Flies - Our Birds - Our First Joint of Roast Meat -we Project the Building of a House - Common Prayer p. 63
- Chapter VII — Building of the Framework and Chimney of our hut - Visit to the west Channel, and to the Monument Island p. 69
- Chapter VIII. — Completion of Our Hut -I Manufacture Some Soap -From the Summit of the Mountain - Erection of a Signal Post - the Cormorants p. 77
- Chapter IX. — A Massacre of Innocents - our Furniture - Adoption of Certain Regulations - the Evening School - our Pastimes p. 89
- Chapter X. — A Grindstone - The Charts - A Temptation - Visit to the Eighth Island - The Patriarch of the Phoge p. 102
- Chapter XI. — We Erect Another Signal - A New Dish - my Reasons for Giving up Beer - Our Parroquets - Dogs in the Island p. 108
- Chapter XII. — A Night in the Open Air - 1 Undertake to Tan the Skins of the Sea-Lions p. 115
- Chapter XIII. — The Snow-Storm - Migration of the Seals - Death of his Majesty, Royal tom -The Aurora Australis, or "Southern Lights" - A Shock of Earthquake p. 122
- Chapter XIV. — Excursion to the west Channel - Discovery of an Ancient Encampment - Shipwrecks p. 128
- Chapter XV. — Distress - In the Recesses of the Gulf - Return of Plenty -A Moment of Happiness p. 134
- Chapter XVI. — The Peak of The Cavern-We are Surprised in a Thick Mist-Visit to the Central Harbour-The Currants-an Impracticable Idea p. 142
- Chapter XVII. — My Experiences as a Boot and Shoe Maker -Our Despairing Conjectures - Return of The Summer Season -Our Geographical Studies p. 149
- Chapter XVIII. — Project of Deliverance - Invention and Erection of a Forge- Bellows - Devotion of Everybody to the Common Work p. 156
- Chapter XIX. — Manufacturing Our Tools - we Resolve on Adopting a New Plan p. 162
- Chapter XX. — Completion and Launch of the Boat - a Separation p. 168
- Chapter XXI. — Storms and Famine - Land! - We Disembark at Port Adventure -Our Removal to Invercargill p. 176
- Chapter XXII. — Musgrave Returns to the Aucklands, and Brings Back our Two Companions - Narrative of His Voyage - The Dead Body at Port Ross p. 185
- Chapter XXIII. — Departure for Sydney - We Put Into Port Chalmers - The Mystery of Port Ross is Explained - I Return to France p. 196
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[appendices] p. 201
- Appendix — I. — Narrative of the Wreck of the "Invercauld Among the Auckland Islands, — By Captain Dalgarno.* — by George Dalgarno p. 201
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II — Wreck of The Ship "General Grant" - Sixty-Eight Dead - Ten Survivors Confined For Eighteen Months upon a Desert Island — by Sydney Herald p. 205
- [Wreck of The Ship General Grant] p. 205
- Narrative of the Surviors p. 206
- III — The Sea-Lions p. 210
- IV — Proof of the Authenticity of the Foregoing Narrative p. 215
- [the end]
- Commentaries — by — Christiane Mortelier — by Christiane Mortelier
- [maps] p. 217
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— I — The Auckland Islands p. 219
- [the Auckland Islands] p. 218
- The Auckland Islands today p. 226
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— II — François Edouard Raynal p. 229
- His life and his book
- Raynal's return to France p. 231
- Raynal's book p. 234
- III — Alphonse De Neuville — Illustrator of Wrecked on a Reef p. 240
- — IV — Captain Thomas Musgrave frgs, Master Mariner — (1832-1891) p. 242
- — V — Influence of Raynal's Wrecked on a Reef on Jules Verne's Novels p. 246
- Selected Critical Studies on Jules Verne's Work Mentioning Lîle Mystérieuse p. 257
- Christiane Mortelier p. 258
- Acknowledgements p. 259
- Glossary p. 260
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[appendices] p. 201