The Blockade Runners (Audio)

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, on which Capt. Playfair adopts as his own cause. This is going make the Rebels in Charleston rather unhappy with him.

Sure, his new ship is fast - but can it escape the cannonballs of both North and South?

01 - The Dolphin
02 - Getting Under Sail
03 - Things Are Not What They Seem
04 - Crockston's Trick
05 - The Shot From the Iroquois, and Miss Jenny's Arguments
06 - Sullivan Island Channel
07 - A Southern General
08 - The Escape
09 - Between Two Fires
10 - St. Mungo