Island of Appledore

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By Listen TheBook Posted on Jun 1, 2023

In Category - Published 1900 onward, Action & Adventure Fiction, Nautical & Marine Fiction

Authors: Cornelia Meigs In Year : 1917

Book Language: English

Audiobook: Island of Appledore

Peering Eyes
The Mill-Creek Road
The Cruise of the Josephine
Captain Saulsby's Watch
The War Game
The Ebbing of the Tide
Mist and Moonlight
The Stranger at the Mill
The Calling of the Island
Three Quarters of a Year
The Watchfires of Appledore
The Last Voyage of Johann Happs

Any one who knows the coast of New England will know also the Island of Appledore and just where it lies. Such a person can tell you that it is not exactly the place described in this book, that it is small and bare and rocky with no woods, no meadows, no church, or mill, or mill-creek road. Perhaps all that the story tells of it that is true is that there the rocks give forth their strange deep song, “the calling of Appledore,” as warning of a storm, that there the poppies bloom as nowhere else in the world, that there the surf comes rolling in, day in and day out, the whole year through, and that there one’s memory turns back with longing, no matter how many years of absence have gone by. There, also, you can sit for hours to watch the huge, green breakers come foaming and tumbling in endless procession up the stony beach; you can watch the nimble sandpipers and the tireless, wheeling gulls; and if you choose you can spin for yourself just such a story as this one of Billy Wentworth and Captain Saulsby and Sally Shute, a tale of mysteries and perils and midnight adventures on the shores of Appledore. - Summary by the author's foreward