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The Blockade Runners by Jules Verne is a gripping tale of high-seas adventure set during the American Civil War. Follow a daring crew as they risk everything to navigate perilous waters, evade capture, and challenge the dangers of wartime trade. Packed with suspense, maritime drama, and Verne’s signature attention to detail, this short novel offers a thrilling journey for fans of nautical and historical adventure fiction.

The Blockade Runners is a fast-paced maritime adventure set during the American Civil War. A Scottish merchant, desperate for cotton, builds a speedy ship to evade the Union blockade. But when he gets entangled in a dangerous rescue mission, his plans take an unexpected turn.

The Blockade Runners by Jules Verne. It was published in 1871 in single volume together with novel A Floating City as a part of the Voyages Extraordinaires series (The Extraordinary Voyages). An English translation was published in 1874.The American Civil War plot centers on the exploits of a British merchant captain named James Playfair who must break the Union blockade of Charleston harbor in South Carolina to trade supplies for cotton.Verne's tale was inspired by reality as many ships were actually lost while acting as blockade runners in and around Charleston in the early 1860s.The year is...

Writing at the end of the American Civil War, Verne weaves this story of a Scottish merchant who, in desperation at the interruption of the flow of Southern cotton due to the Union blockade, determines to build his own fast ship and run guns to the Confederates in exchange for the cotton piling up unsold on their wharves. His simple plan becomes complicated by two passengers who board his new ship under false pretenses in order to carry out a rescue mission, one which Capt. Playfair adopts as his own cause. This is going make the Rebels in Charleston rather unhappy with him.Sure, his new ship ...

Ein verhinderter Autor im Bann überdimensionaler Fledermäuse. Ich bin Schriftsteller, kein besonders guter. Ein paar Veröffentlichungen hatte ich schon, meistens waren es Gefälligkeiten. In meinem Beruf lebt man von Gefälligkeiten, oder besser gesagt: überlebt. Ich träume wie der Großteil meiner Kollegen von dem einen Buch, einem echten Knüller, ich habe ihn im Kopf, ich bringe ihn nur nicht aufs Papier. Aber ich bin mir ganz sicher, er wird veröffentlicht werden, mein Bestseller.

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