Abaft The Funnel by Rudyard Kipling ~ Full Audiobook [adventure]

Abaft The Funnel by Rudyard Kipling audiobook.

Genre: adventure

Abaft the Funnel gathers Rudyard Kipling's sharp-eyed tales and sketches of men living where comfort ends and work begins: on ships running the China seas, in steamy ports, and in the cramped social worlds that travel with the British Empire. The opening pieces drop you aboard the Whanghoa, where a ship's routine is thrown delightfully off-balance by Erastasius, a cat with a gift for mischief and an instinct for finding trouble. citeturn1view0 From there, Kipling shifts tone and latitude: a smoky night in Manila, a hard lesson in responsibility, and portraits of officers, drifters, and professionals whose reputations can rise or collapse on a single choice. One narrator, in a late-hour dive, recognizes a ruined stranger by the coded fellowship of their shared schooling and listens as the man edges toward confession. citeturn0search3 Across the collection, Kipling writes with brisk humor and sudden seriousness, peering past the polished decks and parlor talk to the pressures below - pride, duty, appetite, fear, and the price of belonging. These stories are less about grand voyages than the human machinery that keeps them moving. citeturn1view0

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 01

(00:11:53) Chapter 02

(00:21:06) Chapter 03

(00:27:33) Chapter 04

(00:35:06) Chapter 05

(00:43:20) Chapter 06

(00:52:45) Chapter 07

(01:03:33) Chapter 08

(01:11:58) Chapter 09

(01:24:15) Chapter 10

(01:32:59) Chapter 11

(01:40:03) Chapter 12

(01:49:01) Chapter 13

(02:00:34) Chapter 14

(02:14:16) Chapter 15

(02:35:31) Chapter 16

(02:59:05) Chapter 17

(03:22:35) Chapter 18

(03:51:19) Chapter 19

(04:01:24) Chapter 20

(04:04:55) Chapter 21

(04:45:22) Chapter 22

(04:52:56) Chapter 23

(05:00:15) Chapter 24

(05:09:35) Chapter 25

(05:20:38) Chapter 26

(05:31:04) Chapter 27

(05:47:15) Chapter 28

(05:55:42) Chapter 29

(06:06:16) Chapter 30

(06:16:17) Chapter 31

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