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    Sea Urchins: Fifteen Humorous Sailor's Tales
    Sea Urchins: Fifteen Humorous Sailor's Tales
    Sea Urchins: Fifteen Humorous Sailor's Tales
    Audiobook5 hours

    Sea Urchins: Fifteen Humorous Sailor's Tales

    Written by W. W. Jacobs

    Narrated by Cathy Dobson

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    About this audiobook

    "Fifteen humorous stories by W.W. Jacobs, set on board sailing boats, schooners, barges, and around the docks and quays of London and the South Coast.

    Includes:

    ""Smoked Skipper""
    ""A Safety Match""
    ""A Rash Experiment""
    ""The Cabin Passenger""
    ""Choice Spirits""
    ""A Disciplinarian""
    ""Brother Hutchins""
    ""The Disbursement Sheet""
    ""Rule of Three""
    ""Pickled Herring""
    ""Two of a Trade""
    ""An Intervention""
    ""The Grey Parrot""
    ""Money-Changers""
    ""The Lost Ship"""
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRed Door Consulting
    Release dateSep 27, 2013
    ISBN9781467654210
    Sea Urchins: Fifteen Humorous Sailor's Tales
    Author

    W. W. Jacobs

    William Wymark Jacobs was an English author of short stories and novels. Quite popular in his lifetime primarily for his amusing maritime tales of life along the London docks (many of them humorous as well as sardonic in tone). Today he is best known for a few short works of horror fiction.

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