Count Luckner, The Sea Devil

by Lowell Thomas

28 chapters9h 19mEnglish1927

About this book

Count Felix von Luckner, German naval war officer of World War One, through the words of Lowell Thomas, relates his adventures at sea as a young man through his German naval command in Word War I. Von Luckner is best known as the one who broke through the British blockade and disrupted Allied shipping in a windjammer, under sail, while managing to avoid killing any Allied crews. (Summary by Mark Harrington)

Chapters (28)

1Ch. 1 - We Meet a Flying Buccaneer

855

2Ch. 2 - Felix Runs Off To Sea

1352

3Ch. 3 - Saved By an Albatross

892

4Ch. 4 - Salvation, Kangaroos, and Fakirs In Australia; Ch. 5 - Wrestling Champion Of Sankt Pauli

1605

5Ch. 6 - The Tragic Cruise of the "Caesarea"

1922

6Ch. 7 - The Beach Comber's Adventure With the "Panther"

783

7Ch. 8 - Pitfalls For the Sailor, and the Canary That Spoke Low Deutsch

862

8Ch. 9 - The Runaway Comes Home

740

9Ch. 10 - From Pig-Sty Cleaner To Kaiser's Protégé

1017

10Ch. 11 - In the Camaroons, and the Fairy of Fuerteventura

1096

11Ch. 12 - Fake Norwegians for a Pirate Cruise

2570

12Ch. 13 - Running the British Blockade in a Hurricane

1863

13Ch. 14 - We Capture the "Gladys Royal" and the "Lundy Island"

1348

14Ch. 15 - Raiding Along the Equator, and an Interrupted Honeymoon

1175

15Ch. 16 - Windjammer vs. Steamer

645

16Ch. 17 - The Last Cruise of the Poor Old "Pinmore"

784

17Ch. 18 - The Life of a Modern Buccaneer

904

18Ch. 19 - How We made Our Prisoners Walk the Plank; Ch. 20 - The Battle of the Falkland Islands

1489

19Ch. 21 - Racing the Enemy Around Cape Horn

1131

20Ch. 22 - Raiding the Pacific

752

21Ch. 23 - Shipwrecked in Southern Seas

795

22Ch. 24 - Castaways on a Coral Atoll

854

23Ch. 25 - Let's Go Raiding Again!

649

24Ch. 26 - From the Society Islands to the Cook Islands in an Open Boat

1541

25Ch. 27 - Through a Sea of Floating Brimstone to Fiji

1294

26Ch. 28 - Caught by the British at Wakaya

1202

27Ch. 29 - Jailed in Fiji While Others Escape to Easter Island

1221

28Ch. 30 - The Escape from New Zealand to the Smoking Isle

2212

Count Luckner, The Sea Devil

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