Shifting Winds

Shifting Winds

R. M. Ballantyne, scottish author of juvenile fiction who wrote more than 100 books (1825-1894)


This ebook presents «Shifting Winds», from R. M. Ballantyne. A dynamic table of contents enables to jump directly to the chapter selected.


Table of Contents

-01- About this book

-02- The Cottage and its Inmates

-03- Wrecked, Rescued, and Resuscitated

-04- The Cottage at Cove invaded

-05- The Rescue

-06- The Breakfast Party at Seaside Villa

-07- Kenneth indulges in Suspicions and Surmises

-08- Lizzie Gordon is run away with, and Gaff is pumped

-09- Dan Horsey does the Agreeable in the Kitchen

-10- The Sailors’ Home and the Mad Skipper

-11- The Dinner in the Restaurant

-12- The Writing of the Hambigoo-ous Letter

-13- The Bu’ster wills to accomplish Mischief

-14- The Storm, and its Consequences

-15- Gaff and Billy become the Sport of Fortune, and see Strange Things

-16- The Dinner Party

-17- Jack Tar before and after the Institution of the S.F.M.S

-18- Mrs Gaff endeavours fruitlessly to understand the Nature of Cash

-19- Mrs Gaff becomes a Woman of Business

-20- The Open Boat on the Pacific

-21- The Voyage of the Bottle

-22- The Fortunes of Gaff and Billy continued

-23- The Island-Home Examined

-24- Relating to Improvements in the Hut, and Mrs Gaff’s Perplexities

-25- Miss Peppy undertakes a Journey

-26- Perplexities and Musical Charms

-27- Mad Haco startled at last

-28- Plot and Counterplot, ending in a Long Chase

-29- Plotters Counterplotted

-30- Dreadful Suspicions aroused in Anxious Bosoms

-31- Strange Scenes and Doings far away

-32- Delivered, Wrecked, and Rescued

-33- Home Again

-34- The Sailors’ Home and the New Secretary

-35- Failures and Hopes Deferred, and Consequences

-36- Conclusion