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When the World Shook

A fictional memoir of Humphrey Arbuthnot of Devonshire, we are taken on a voyage to the island of Orofena, in the South Seas, together with Bickley, the servant Bastin and the spaniel Tommy. It is a land of adventure and danger, the result of which eventually leads to the author's death. - Summary by Lynne Thompson (0 hr 37 min)

Chapters

Arbuthnot Describes Himself

Bastin and Bickley

Natalie

Death and Departure

The Cyclone

Land

The Orofenans

Bastin Attempts the Martyr’s Crown

The Island in the Lake

The Dwellers in the Tomb

Resurrection

Two Hundred and Fifty Thousand Years!

Oro Speaks and Bastin Argues

The Under-world

Oro in His House

Visions of the Past

Yva Explains

The Accident

The Proposals of Bastin and Bickley

Oro and Arbuthnot Travel by Night

Love’s Eternal Altar

The Command

In the Temple of Fate

The Chariot of the Pit

Sacrifice

Tommy

Bastin Discovers a Resemblance

NOTE By J. R. Bickley, M.R.C.S.