An Antarctic Mystery
An Antarctic Mystery by Jules Verne is available here as the complete text, split into 847 reading sections of 5 sentences, each with audio and tap-to-define vocabulary.
An Antarctic Mystery by Jules Verne. Complete source text from Project Gutenberg eBook #10339.
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An Antarctic Mystery
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- Chapter I The Schooner _Halbrane_
- Chapter II
- Chapter III From the Kerguelen Isles to Prince Edward Island
- Chapter IV Edgar Poe's Romance
- Chapter V An Ocean Waif
- Chapter VI Tristan D'acunha
- Chapter VII Bound for the Falklands
- Chapter VIII Fitting Out the _Halbrane_
- Chapter IX The Outset of the Enterprise
- Chapter X From the Sandwich Islands to the Polar Circle
- Chapter XI Between the Polar Circle and the Ice Wall
- Chapter XII Along the Front of the Icebergs
- Chapter XIII
- Chapter XIV Bennet Islet
- Chapter XV
- Chapter XVI
- Chapter XVII A Revelation
- Chapter XVIII Land?
- Chapter XIX "Unmerciful Disaster."
- Chapter XX Amid the Mists
- Chapter XXI In Camp
- Chapter XXII Found at Last
- Chapter XXIII Eleven Years in a Few Pages
- Chapter XXIV "We Were the First."
- Chapter XXV A Little Remnant
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- Halbrane
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- Schooner
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- Three
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- Hundred
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