Thoughts of Wise People for Every Day

The MediaBook studio presents an audiobook of the famous French writer Jules Verne’s “Two Years’ Vacation.”

“On the night of March 9, 1860, clouds, merging with the sea, blocked the horizon. Among the raging waves, with a bluish glint, a light ship with almost no sails was carried along. It was a yacht of one hundred tons displacement. This yacht bore the name ‘Sloughi,’ but the word couldn’t be deciphered at the stern, because part of it above the rail had been torn off by a wave. It was 11 o’clock in the evening. At this latitude, in early March, nights are still short. Dawn comes at five in the morning. But will the danger threatening ‘Sloughi’ diminish when the sun rises? Will the fragile vessel remain at the mercy of the waves? Of course, only the cessation of the squall could save it from a terrible wreck in the middle of the ocean—far from land, where the survivors might find refuge…” © ℗ LLC “MediaBook,” 2018