There are two heroes, a sailor and his non-sailing friend, who are on a late season holiday sailing the Frisian coast. It isn’t a fast, pacy book with lots of action - it was written in 1903, and books took their time then. Anyhow - this is a tale of quiet derring do, probably enjoyed most by sailors as it takes place mostly on a small yacht in German coastal waters, and especially by those who’ve sailed in those very waters. So the style is different from the professional narrators us committed Audible users are accustomed to, and to be fair to Audible, there is a note on the description saying this is a “vintage recording”. It’s actually an RNIB publication, so I presume it’s read by a volunteer - most of their talking books were. This is an old fashioned novel read in an old fashioned way.
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