Classic Audiobook Collection Abaft The Funnel by Rudyard Kipling ~ Full Audiobook [adventure]
Abaft The Funnel by Rudyard Kipling audiobook.
Genre: adventure
Abaft the Funnel gathers Rudyard Kipling's sharp-eyed tales and sketches of men living where comfort ends and work begins: on ships running the China seas, in steamy ports, and in the cramped social worlds that travel with the British Empire. The opening pieces drop you aboard the Whanghoa, where a ship's routine is thrown delightfully off-balance by Erastasius, a cat with a gift for mischief and an instinct for finding trouble. citeturn1view0 From there, Kipling shifts tone and latitude: a smoky night in Manila, a hard lesson in responsibility, and portraits of officers, drifters, and professionals whose reputations can rise or collapse on a single choice. One narrator, in a late-hour dive, recognizes a ruined stranger by the coded fellowship of their shared schooling and listens as the man edges toward confession. citeturn0search3 Across the collection, Kipling writes with brisk humor and sudden seriousness, peering past the polished decks and parlor talk to the pressures below - pride, duty, appetite, fear, and the price of belonging. These stories are less about grand voyages than the human machinery that keeps them moving. citeturn1view0
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Chapters (Approximate)
(00:00:00) Chapter 01
(00:11:53) Chapter 02
(00:21:06) Chapter 03
(00:27:33) Chapter 04
(00:35:06) Chapter 05
(00:43:20) Chapter 06
(00:52:45) Chapter 07
(01:03:33) Chapter 08
(01:11:58) Chapter 09
(01:24:15) Chapter 10
(01:32:59) Chapter 11
(01:40:03) Chapter 12
(01:49:01) Chapter 13
(02:00:34) Chapter 14
(02:14:16) Chapter 15
(02:35:31) Chapter 16
(02:59:05) Chapter 17
(03:22:35) Chapter 18
(03:51:19) Chapter 19
(04:01:24) Chapter 20
(04:04:55) Chapter 21
(04:45:22) Chapter 22
(04:52:56) Chapter 23
(05:00:15) Chapter 24
(05:09:35) Chapter 25
(05:20:38) Chapter 26
(05:31:04) Chapter 27
(05:47:15) Chapter 28
(05:55:42) Chapter 29
(06:06:16) Chapter 30
(06:16:17) Chapter 31
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