Java Head
Java Head is a novel of the American merchant marine at the beginning of the great clipper ship era. It is laid in Salem, when that city was still a port rich with the traffic of the East Indies; a story of choleric ship masters, charming girls, and an aristocratic Manchu woman in carmine and jades and crusted gold. There is a drama as secret and poisonous as opium, lovely old gardens with lilac trees and green lattices, and elm-shaded streets ending at the harbor with the brigs unloading ivory from Africa and the ships crowding on their topsails for Canton. It is a romantic novel-and yet true-rather than a study of drab manners; there is no purpose in it other than the pleasure to be found in the spectacle of life supported by high courage and made beautiful by women in peacock shawls. (From the back cover of the 1919 edition)
Genre(s): Culture & Heritage Fiction, Family Life
Language: English
Section | Chapter | Reader | Time |
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Play 01 | Chapter 1 | Margaret Espaillat |
00:47:25 |
Play 02 | Chapter 2 | Margaret Espaillat |
00:45:27 |
Play 03 | Chapter 3 | Margaret Espaillat |
00:33:09 |
Play 04 | Chapter 4 | Margaret Espaillat |
00:46:57 |
Play 05 | Chapter 5 | Margaret Espaillat |
00:47:55 |
Play 06 | Chapter 6 | Margaret Espaillat |
00:41:14 |
Play 07 | Chapter 7, Part 1 | Margaret Espaillat |
00:34:10 |
Play 08 | Chapter 7, Part 2 | Margaret Espaillat |
00:30:09 |
Play 09 | Chapter 8 | Margaret Espaillat |
00:58:45 |
Play 10 | Chapter 9 | Margaret Espaillat |
00:52:56 |
Play 11 | Chapter 10 | Margaret Espaillat |
00:33:39 |