EPISODE · Apr 9, 2026 · 26 MIN
The Wrecker Chapter 17 - Light From the Man of War
from The Robert Louis Stevenson Library · host Robert Louis Stevenson
In which the narrator, cast ashore in the bustling yet ancient harbour of Honolulu, encounters a British naval officer and his reticent doctor aboard the man-of-war Tempest, whose knowledge of the shipwrecked Flying Scud and its enigmatic survivor, Mr. Carthew, draws him into a subtle dance of guarded confidences and sombre reflections. Through their civil yet elusive discourse, he glimpses a deeper and darker truth behind the misfortunes of the wreck, tempered by the doctor's grave admonitions and the inscrutable ways of fate.
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In which the narrator, cast ashore in the bustling yet ancient harbour of Honolulu, encounters a British naval officer and his reticent doctor aboard the man-of-war Tempest, whose knowledge of the shipwrecked Flying Scud and its enigmatic survivor, Mr. Carthew, draws him into a subtle dance of guarded confidences and sombre reflections. Through their civil yet elusive discourse, he glimpses a deeper and darker truth behind the misfortunes of the wreck, tempered by the doctor's grave admonitions and the inscrutable ways of fate.
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