"An Antarctic Mystery" by Jules Verne

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Chapter 1: The Kerguelen Islands

The picture used is "Ships of James Cook at Christmas Harbour, Kerguelen Islands, December 1776. John Webber del. Newton sculp", published in 1784.

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Chapter 2: The Schooner Halbrane

The picture used is "The approach of the Halbrane"

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Chapter 3: Captain Len Guy

The picture used is "Going aboard the Halbrane".

Today you get to laugh at my shameful attempt at a Scouse accent! I wouldn't try it but that Len Guy is explicitly said to be from Liverpool, so gotta do it. Enjoy! :)

(The point is less to get the accent right as it is to make sure you can distinguish which character is speaking at any given moment...)

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Chapter 4: From the Kerguelen Isles to Prince Edward Island

The picture used is "Colours of the Great Southern Ocean 5." by david takes photos, licensed for reuse under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 2.0 Generic license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.0/)

Sheesh my Scouse accent is bloody awful, embarrassingly so. Oh well, we're stuck with it now :-P

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If my voice sounds a bit stuffy or otherwise off, I did some swimming today and I always git a bit of sinusitis when swimming in a pool. Yuck.

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Chapter 5: Edgar Poe's Romance

If you have already read or listened to the "Narrative of A. Gordon Pym of Nantucket" by Edgar Allen Poe, unless you need a refresh of it, this chapter can be safely skipped. If you haven't read or listened to it, go check my playlist of it and give it a listen!

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Still a little bit of sinusitis from the swim. Also, there's a low hum in the background - I believe I have the gain set too high on my mic, I will adjust that and see if it improves.

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Chapter 6: An Ocean Waif

I'm not going to try a different voice for every single crew member of the Halbrane, only a couple of the more important ones like the captain and boatswain. I did try to give the lieutenant a more stern, projecting voice, but I wasn't forceful enough and it fails to come through. Oh well.

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Chapter 7: Tristan D'Acunha

The picture used is "Tristan W coast 45" by michael clarke stuff, licensed for reuse under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.0 Generic license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/deed.en)

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Chapter 8: Bound for the Falklands

The picture used is "Cook's route was effectively barred by ice floes"

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"An Antarctic Mystery", chapter 9, by Jules Verne, translated by Cashel Hoey.

Chapter 9: Fitting out the Halbrane

The picture used is "West Falkland from near Keppel Island." by Ben Tubby, licensed for reused under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/deed.en)

I had trouble rediscovering Hurliguerly's accent, it's all over the place in this chapter :(

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Chapter 10: The Outset of the Enterprise

The picture used is "Taking in sail under difficulties"

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Chapter 11: From the Sandwich Islands to the Polar Circle

The picture used is "There, look there! That's a fin-back!"

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It's completely hopeless for me to regain my accent for Hurliguerly. Sorry :(

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Chapter 12: Between the Polar Circle and the Ice Wall

The picture used is "Hunt to the rescue!"

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Chapter 13: Along the Front of the Icebergs

The picture used is "Four sailors at the oars, and one at the helm."

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Boy, I sound awful in this one, like I'm dead. I did have a long day and was tired by the time I got around to recording. I may also have been a bit dehydrated, which is probably the biggest culprit. Ugh. My Len Guy accent is especially terrible - sounds like a leprechaun! Not to mention way too much trill in the R's. I should probably re-record this one, but this isn't a commercial product, I'm on a schedule, so out it goes. You get what you pay for :-P

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Chapter 14: A Voice in a Dream

A very short chapter!

The picture used is of a John Dory fish - I didn't know what a John Dory was, and I figure many listeners might also not know, but now you do! Specifically, the picture is "lat. Zeus faber" by de:Benutzer:Kleines.Opossum, licensed for reuse under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/deed.en)

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Chapter 15: Bennet Islet

Of course, there's no actual Bennett Islet, so I had to use a picture of an island that I thought might be very similar to the islet as described in the story. In this case, Cockburn Island.

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Chapter 16: Tsalal Island

The picture used is: "Hunt extended his enormous hand, holding a metal collar"

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Chapter 17: And Pym

The picture used is "Dirk Peters shows the way"

A long, but important, chapter. And hey, no mention of Christmas!?

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Chapter 18: A Revelation

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Chapter 19: Land?

The picture used is: "The Halbrane fast in the iceberg"

Temperatures given are in Fahrenheit. 32F = 0C, 26F = -3.3C

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Chapter 20: "Unmerciful Disaster"

46F = 7.8C, 53F = 11.7C

The picture used is: The Halbrane, staved in, broken up

Holy cow this is a shockingly long chapter! And regrettably, this chapter uses a now verboten word (not to mention some unfortunate stereotypes). Because I am not one to alter a historic text for any reason, I have uttered the forbidden word (it is used only once) to preserve the integrity of the text as written. Sorry about that, but there's nothing for it. Hopefully bitchute won't penalize me for saying the word used in this text that was still in common usage in the 19th-century...

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Chapter 21: Amid the Mists

The picture used is "Iceberg in fog at the harbour entrance in Upernavik, Greenland." by Kim Hansen, licensed for reuse under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).

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Chapter 22: In Camp

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Chapter 23: Found at Last

36F = 2.2C; 32F = 0C

The picture used is "William Guy"

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Chapter 24: Eleven Years in a Few Pages

The picture used is "Pendulum Cove (Deception Island, Antarctica)" by Delphinidaesy, licensed for reuse under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 2.0 Generic (CC BY-NC 2.0) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.0/). Which is meant to stand-in for post-earthquake Tsalal Island.

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Chapter 25: "We Were the First"

23F = -5C; 32F = 0C

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