Thrilling Adventures Collection

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Embark on an exhilarating journey with the "Thrilling Adventures Collection," where every day invites you to immerse yourself in a captivating new audiobook that ignites your sense of wonder and exploration. This series is a vibrant tapestry of adventure, featuring a dynamic range of stories that transport you to uncharted territories, perilous quests, and heart-pounding escapades. From the high seas to hidden jungles, each episode offers a fresh narrative that captures the essence of adventure literature, ensuring that listeners are consistently engaged and entertained. Discover the thrill of the unknown as you traverse landscapes filled with danger and excitement, and experience the triumphs and trials of unforgettable characters. This is not merely a collection of stories; it is an invitation to escape the ordinary and dive into a world where every day brings a new adventure waiting to be explored. Join us and discover a new book every day, fueling your imagination and sense of adventure.

  1. Aug 29

    Surprising Adventures of Bampfylde Moore Carew King of the Beggars - Bampfylde Moore Carew Robert Goadby

    The Surprising Adventures of Bampfylde Moore Carew recounts the wide-ranging exploits of a real-life rogue – a wily professional mendicant who roams 18th-century England extracting charity from merchants, clergyman, and members of the landed gentry alike, employing in his craft an ingenious variety of deceptions and disguises put on for the purpose. Often he impersonates a shipwreck-surviving seaman and uses his wide knowledge of foreign parts and personages to achieve plausibility. Or he might appear on a doorstep as a destitute woman in widow's weeds, toting borrowed babes to enhance the effect. In the course of his psychological experiments in the science of inducing charity, Bampfylde Moore Carew takes great delight in touching the same mark more than once, back to back, offering up a different identity each time he scores. Sometimes, after the fact, he unmasks to his prey, and a drinking-party ensues. Twice, though, he is apprehended and transported to colonial America to be sold into slavery. During his first American sojourn, he lives among peaceful Indians before wangling his way back to England, feigning smallpox en route to avoid being pressed into military service. On another occasion, though, he is press-ganged onto a warship bound up the Baltic but, as always, uses his wits to make his way back to his beloved wife and daughter in England. This book opens a panoramic window onto the day-to-day problems and social practices of those attempting to survive the precarious first half of the 18th century. Appended to the tale is A Dictionary of the Cant Language, listing the colorful, semi-secret argot used by mendicants to, among other things, describe targets of opportunity while evading comprehension by overhearing ears. A sort of urban dictionary of its day, it includes such surprising entries as "flaybottomist - a schoolmaster," "lousetrap - a comb" and "tip the velvet - to tongue a woman." (Grant Hurlock)

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Embark on an exhilarating journey with the "Thrilling Adventures Collection," where every day invites you to immerse yourself in a captivating new audiobook that ignites your sense of wonder and exploration. This series is a vibrant tapestry of adventure, featuring a dynamic range of stories that transport you to uncharted territories, perilous quests, and heart-pounding escapades. From the high seas to hidden jungles, each episode offers a fresh narrative that captures the essence of adventure literature, ensuring that listeners are consistently engaged and entertained. Discover the thrill of the unknown as you traverse landscapes filled with danger and excitement, and experience the triumphs and trials of unforgettable characters. This is not merely a collection of stories; it is an invitation to escape the ordinary and dive into a world where every day brings a new adventure waiting to be explored. Join us and discover a new book every day, fueling your imagination and sense of adventure.