First and Last
Hilaire Belloc
Gelesen von Ray Clare





“When a man weighs anchor in a little ship or a large one he does a jolly thing! He cuts himself off and he starts for freedom and for the chance of things. He pulls the jib a-weather, he leans to her slowly pulling round, he sees the wind getting into the mainsail, and he feels that she feels the helm. He has her on a slant of the wind, and he makes out between the harbour piers.” (quotation from Hilaire Belloc) (7 hr 27 min)
Kapitel
Chapter 01 On Weighing Anchor | 6:28 | Gelesen von Ray Clare |
Chapter 02 On Reveillon | 8:16 | Gelesen von Ray Clare |
Chapter 03 On Cheeses | 10:55 | Gelesen von Ray Clare |
Chapter 04 The Captain of Industry | 12:25 | Gelesen von Ray Clare |
Chapter 05 The Inventor | 13:04 | Gelesen von Ray Clare |
Chapter 06 The Views of England | 10:55 | Gelesen von Ray Clare |
Chapter 07 The Lunatic | 10:59 | Gelesen von Ray Clare |
Chapter 08 The Inheritance of Humour | 8:17 | Gelesen von Ray Clare |
Chapter 09 The Old Gentelman's Opinions | 11:57 | Gelesen von Ray Clare |
Chapter 10 On Historical Evidence | 18:45 | Gelesen von Ray Clare |
Chapter 11 The Absence of the Past | 11:46 | Gelesen von Ray Clare |
Chapter 12 St. Patrick | 8:59 | Gelesen von Ray Clare |
Chapter 13 The Lost Things | 8:01 | Gelesen von Ray Clare |
Chapter 14 On Historical Evidence | 12:53 | Gelesen von Ray Clare |
Chapter 15 The Victory | 8:52 | Gelesen von Ray Clare |
Chapter 16 Reality | 13:33 | Gelesen von Ray Clare |
Chapter 17 On the Decline of the Book | 22:44 | Gelesen von Ray Clare |
Chapter 18 Jose Maria de Heredia | 9:20 | Gelesen von Ray Clare |
Chapter 19 Normandy and the Normans | 9:54 | Gelesen von Ray Clare |
Chapter 20 The Old Things | 11:19 | Gelesen von Ray Clare |
Chapter 21 The Battle of Hastings | 11:01 | Gelesen von Ray Clare |
Chapter 22 The Roman Roads in Picardy | 9:45 | Gelesen von Ray Clare |
Chapter 23 The Reward of Letters | 12:27 | Gelesen von Ray Clare |
Chapter 24 The Eye-Openers | 9:21 | Gelesen von Ray Clare |
Chapter 25 The Public | 11:02 | Gelesen von Ray Clare |
Chapter 26 On Entries | 11:45 | Gelesen von Ray Clare |
Chapter 27 Companions of Travel | 9:06 | Gelesen von Ray Clare |
Chapter 28 On the Sources of Rivers | 8:36 | Gelesen von Ray Clare |
Chapter 29 On Error | 10:31 | Gelesen von Ray Clare |
Chapter 30 The Great Sight | 13:55 | Gelesen von Ray Clare |
Chapter 31 The Decline of a State | 9:03 | Gelesen von Ray Clare |
Chapter 32 On Past Greatness | 7:15 | Gelesen von Ray Clare |
Chapter 33 Mr. The Duke: The Man of Malplaquet | 10:15 | Gelesen von Ray Clare |
Chapter 34 The Game of Cards | 12:59 | Gelesen von Ray Clare |
Chapter 35 "King Lear" | 8:46 | Gelesen von Ray Clare |
Chapter 36 The Excursion | 12:01 | Gelesen von Ray Clare |
Chapter 37 The Tide | 9:54 | Gelesen von Ray Clare |
Chapter 38 On a Great Wind | 9:24 | Gelesen von Ray Clare |
Chapter 39 The Letter | 9:14 | Gelesen von Ray Clare |
Chapter 40 The Regret | 9:32 | Gelesen von Ray Clare |
Chapter 41 The End of the World | 12:06 | Gelesen von Ray Clare |