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Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands

par Mary Seacole · 21 parties · about 4 hours 51 minutes de lecture

Bonjour, je m'appelle Finn et je vais t'aider à comprendre ce livre.

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Mary Seacole a appris à soigner de sa mère en Jamaïque, où les gens venaient à la maison de sa famille quand ils étaient malades. Elle a traversé la mer jusqu'au Panama pour soigner des gens frappés par le choléra, puis a navigué vers une guerre en Crimée quand l'armée a refusé son aide. Elle y est allée quand même, a ouvert un hôtel près des combats, a nourri les soldats et soigné les blessés. C'est sa propre histoire pleine de vie.

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Chapitres

Introductory Preface1 min Chapter 1: My Birth and Parentage, Early Tastes and Travels, Marriage, and Widowhood8 min Chapter 2: Struggles for Life, the Cholera in Jamaica, I Leave Kingston for the Isthmus of Panama, Chagres, Navy Bay, and Gatun, Life in Panama, Up the River Chagres to Gorgona and Cruces16 min Chapter 3: My Reception at the Independent Hotel, a Cruces Table D'Hote, Life in Cruces, Amusements of the Crowds, a Novel Four-Post Bed9 min Chapter 4: An Unwelcome Visitor in Cruces, the Cholera, Success of the Yellow Doctress, Fearful Scene at the Mule-Owner's, the Burying Parties, the Cholera Attacks Me17 min Chapter 5: American Sympathy, I Take an Hotel in Cruces, My Customers, Lola Montes, Miss Hayes and the Bishop, Gambling in Cruces, Quarrels Amongst the Travellers, New Granada Military, the Thieves of Cruces, a Narrow Escape18 min Chapter 6: Migration to Gorgona, Farewell Dinners and Speeches, a Building Speculation, Life in Gorgona, Sympathy with American Slaves, Dr. Casey in Trouble, Floods and Fires, Yankee Independence and Freedom18 min Chapter 7: The Yellow Fever in Jamaica, My Experience of Death-Bed Scenes, I Leave Again for Navy Bay, and Open a Store There, I Am Attacked with the Gold Fever, and Start for Escribanos, Life in the Interior of the Republic of New Granada, a Revolutionary Conspiracy on a Small Scale, the Dinner Delicacies of Escribanos, Journey Up the Palmilla River, a Few Words on the Present Aspect of Affairs on the Isthmus of Panama21 min Chapter 8: I Long to Join the British Army Before Sebastopol, My Wanderings About London for That Purpose, How I Fail, Establishment of the Firm of "Day and Martin", I Embark for Turkey13 min Chapter 9: Voyage to Constantinople, Malta, Gibraltar, Constantinople, and What I Thought of It, Visit to Scutari Hospital, Miss Nightingale14 min Chapter 10: "Jew Johnny", I Start for Balaclava, Kindness of My Old Friends, on Board the "Medora", My Life on Shore, the Sick Wharf14 min Chapter 11: Alarms in the Harbour, Getting the Stores on Shore, Robbery by Night and Day, the Predatory Tribes of Balaclava, Activity of the Authorities, We Obtain Leave to Erect Our Store, and Fix Upon Spring Hill as Its Site, the Turkish Pacha, the Flood, Our Carpenters, I Become an English Schoolmistress Abroad16 min Chapter 12: The British Hotel, Domestic Difficulties, Our Enemies, the Russian Rats, Adventures in Search of a Cat, Light-Fingered Zouaves, Crimean Thieves, Powdering a Horse16 min Chapter 13: My Work in the Crimea14 min Chapter 14: My Customers at the British Hotel17 min Chapter 15: My First Glimpse of War, Advance of My Turkish Friends on Kamara, Visitors to the Camp, Miss Nightingale, Mons. Soyer and the Cholera, Summer in the Crimea, "Thirsty Souls", Death Busy in the Trenches12 min Chapter 16: Under Fire on the Fatal 18th of June, Before the Redan, at the Cemetery, the Armistice, Deaths at Head-Quarters, Depression in the Camp, Plenty in the Crimea, the Plague of Flies, Under Fire at the Battle of the Tchernaya, Work on the Field, My Patients20 min Chapter 17: Inside Sebastopol, the Last Bombardment of Sebastopol, on Cathcart's Hill, Rumours in the Camp, the Attack on the Malakhoff, the Old Work Again, a Sunday Excursion, Inside "Our" City, I Am Taken for a Spy, and Thereat Lose My Temper, I Visit the Redan, Etc., My Share of the "Plunder."14 min Chapter 18: Holiday in the Camp, a New Enemy, Time, Amusements in the Crimea, My Share in Them, Dinner at Spring Hill, at the Races, Christmas Day in the British Hotel, New Year's Day in the Hospital15 min Chapter 19: New Year in the Crimea, Good News, the Armistice, Barter with the Russians, War and Peace, Tidings of Peace, Excursions Into the Interior of the Crimea, to Simpheropol, Baktchiserai, Etc., the Troops Begin to Leave the Crimea, Friends' Farewells, the Cemeteries, We Remove from Spring Hill to Balaclava, Alarming Sacrifice of Our Stock, a Last Glimpse of Sebastopol, Home!14 min Conclusion4 min