Up the River

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By Listen TheBook Posted on May 30, 2023

In Category - General Fiction, Nautical & Marine Fiction

Authors: Oliver Optic In Year : 1882

Book Language: English

Audiobook: Up the River

00 - Preface
01 - In Captain Boomsby's Salon
02 - Four Thousand Dollars
03 - Adieu to the Boomsbys
04 - Nick Boomsby has Aspirations
05 - The Strange Movement of the Islander
06 - A Lively Chase
07 - A Fog off the Florida Coast
08 - A Port in a Storm
09 - A Visit from an Old Acquaintance
10 - Intelligence of the Islander
11 - Difficult Navigation
12 - The Calamity on French Reef
13 - A Night Lost in the Storm
14 - Looking for the Islander
15 - A Partial Solution of the Mystery
16 - Across the Gulf of Mexico
17 - The Sylvania in Ambush
18 - How Nick Boomsby managed his Case
19 - A Search for the Lost Treasure
20 - The Theory and the Facts
21 - Up the Mississippi
22 - The Islander in a Bad Fix
23 - An Embarrassing Situation
24 - A Crevasse on the Mississippi
25 - Sailing Across the Fields
26 - A Desperate Struggle with the Rushing Waters
27 - The Planter and his Family
28 - A Distinguished Passenger
29 - Up the River for many Days
30 - Up another River and Home Again

Up the River is the sixth and last of "The Great Western Series." The events of the story occur on the coast of Florida, in the Gulf of Mexico, and on the Mississippi River. The volume and the series close with the return of the hero, by a route not often taken by tourists, to his home in Michigan. His voyaging on the ocean, the Great Lakes, and the Father of Waters, is finished for the present; but the writer believes that his principal character has grown wiser and better since he was first introduced to the reader. He has made mistakes of judgment, but whatever of example and inspiration he may impart to the reader will be that of a true and noble boy, with no vices to disfigure his character, and no low aims to lead him from "the straight and narrow path" of duty.
Dorchester, Mass., June 1, 1881(Introduction by Author)

This book was written under the pseudonym of Oliver Optic.