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Dick Rodney; or, the Adventures of an Eton Boy

James Grant

The story follows young Dick Rodney, an Eton schoolboy, as he navigates through a series of exhilarating adventures that begin with his longing for greater accomplishments beyond the confines of school life.

"Dick Rodney; or, The Adventures of an Eton Boy" by James Grant is a novel. The story follows young Dick Rodney, an Eton schoolboy, as he navigates through a series of exhilarating adventures that begin with his longing for greater accomplishments beyond the confines of school life.

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In the relation of the following adventures I do not mean to illustrate the principle maintained by some writers, that by an inevitable course of events in life, that becomes fate, which at first was merely choice; but rather to show how, by a remarkable combination of circumstances (to a great extent beyond my own control), I was involved in a series of perils and perigrinations, such as rarely fall to the lot even of those who have the most restless of dispositions.

That my temperament was, and is still, something of this nature, I must confess; and the reading of my leisure hours—books of wild adventure by field and flood (I have devoured them all from the volumes of dear old Daniel Defoe, to those of the Railway Library), filled my mind with vague longings and airy fancies, for greater achievements than our periodical regatta, or the ranks of our Eton Rifle Volunteer Corps were likely to afford, although I deemed myself by no means an undistinguished member of the latter.

Contents

  1. 01Chapter I. The Eton Boy.
  2. 02Chapter II. Captain Zeervogel.
  3. 03Chapter III. The Three Warnings.
  4. 04Chapter IV. How I Got Adrift.
  5. 05Chapter V. Useless Regrets.
  6. 06Chapter VI. The Eugenie.
  7. 07Chapter VII. The Scotch Mate's Yarn.
  8. 08Chapter VIII. Voyage Continued.
  9. 09Chapter IX. A Hurricane Drives Us to the Fortunate Isles.
  10. 10Chapter X. I Go Ashore.
  11. 11Chapter XI. How Tom Was Tattooed.
  12. 12Chapter XII. Dangerous Company.
  13. 13Chapter XIII. The Ventana.
  14. 14Chapter XIV. Sequel to Our Adventure.
  15. 15Chapter XV the Anchor a-Peak.
  16. 16Chapter XVI. An Incident.
  17. 17Chapter XVII. Antonio El Cubano.
  18. 18Chapter XVIII. The Water-Spout.
  19. 19Chapter XIX. Cuba.
  20. 20Chapter XX. An Evil Spirit.
  21. 21Chapter XXI. We Cross the Line.
  22. 22Chapter XXII. The Cubano Unmasked.
  23. 23Chapter XXIII. Conference of the Crew.
  24. 24Chapter XXIV. I Confront the Cubano.
  25. 25Chapter XXV. I Rescue the Mate.
  26. 26Chapter XXVI. The Requital.
  27. 27Chapter XXVII. The Thunderbolt.
  28. 28Chapter XXVIII. Cast Away.
  29. 29Chapter XXIX. Discover Land.
  30. 30Chapter XXX. The Island of Alphonso.
  31. 31Chapter XXXI. We Build a Hut.
  32. 32Chapter XXXII. A Wild Boar.
  33. 33Chapter XXXIII. A New Perplexity.
  34. 34Chapter XXXIV. The Mystery Increases.
  35. 35Chapter XXXV the Mystery Solved.
  36. 36Chapter XXXVI. A Terrible Interview.
  37. 37Chapter XXXVII. The Fata Morgana.
  38. 38Chapter XXXVIII. Marooned.
  39. 39Chapter XXXIX. A New Danger.
  40. 40Chapter XL. The Revolver Again.
  41. 41Chapter XLI. A Waterlogged Vessel.
  42. 42Chapter XLII. The Old Spanish Book.
  43. 43Chapter XLIII. Sangre Por Sangre.
  44. 44Chapter XLIV. The San Ildefonso.
  45. 45Chapter XLV. We Sail for Europe.
  46. 46Chapter XLVI. The Homeward Voyage.
  47. 47Chapter XLVII. A Mutiny.
  48. 48Chapter XLVIII. Sequel to the Mutiny.
  49. 49Chapter XLIX. The Coast of Africa.
  50. 50Chapter L. Santa Cruz.
  51. 51Chapter LI. The Old Dragon-Tree of Caora.
  52. 52Chapter LII. The Valley of the Diamond.
  53. 53Chapter LIII. The Last of Antonio El Cubano.
  54. 54Chapter LIV. Conclusion.

About this edition

Author
James Grant
Language
English
Era
Modern (c. 1800–1945)
Reading level
Intermediate: some philosophy helps
Formats
EPUB, PDF
Length
328 pages
This edition
Modern Philosophers

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