Pirate Jack : A Podcast Novel

Episodes

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   Important Podcast Message

   DOWNLOAD MP3 AUDIO MESSAGE This podcast has moved to CandlelightStories.com. You should subscribe to the new feed right here on this blog or at the CandlelightStories.com site.

   Apr 10, 2009
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   Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe - Part 12

   Download Robinson Crusoe - Part 12 Make sure you switch over to the new Robinson Crusoe podcast feed before next week's part 13. Here's the feed url: http://feeds.feedburner.com/RobinsonCrusoe Or you can search in the podcast area on iTunes for 'Robinson Crusoe.' We're the one with the book and...

   Sep 6, 2006
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   We are Moving Robinson Crusoe to its Own Podcast

   Download Information on How to Keep Listening to Robinson Crusoe We are moving Robinson Crusoe to its own podcast. The 'Pirate Jack' novel will stay here in its entirety. Robinson Crusoe will now be offered via this feed: http://feeds.feedburner.com/RobinsonCrusoe Or you can just go to...

   Sep 6, 2006
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   Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe - Part 11

   Download Robinson Crusoe - Part 11 Crusoe makes another shocking discovery and sets himself on a course of action that leads him to one of the book's most interesting passages. It is here, in Crusoe's struggle with his own outrage and his ideas about what makes for civilized behavior, that Defoe...

   Aug 25, 2006
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   Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe - Part 10

   Download Robinson Crusoe - Part 10 Our lone character, Robinson Crusoe, succeeds in raising his herd of goats and learns to use them for meat, milk and cheese. But his shocking discovery on a beach shakes his foundation and fills him with dread.

   Aug 19, 2006
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   Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe - Part 9

   Download Robinson Crusoe - Part 9 Let's get on with our story, shall we? It's a good story and reading it is a lot of fun. Difficult, but fun. Defoe's language is up and down and backward and forward. It makes you think fast. Try picking up the book and reading any part of it out loud and fast....

   Aug 9, 2006
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   Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe - Part 8

   Download Robinson Crusoe - Part 8 Robinson Crusoe struggles to harvest his corn, make bread, build a boat and sew some clothes. The efforts he makes are constantly set back by mistakes and errors in judgement. He deals with his lack of expertise in the various arts that he must call upon with a...

   Jun 8, 2006
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   Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe - Part 7

   Download Robinson Crusoe - Part 7 Crusoe details how he learns to grow crops that will help sustain him when his ammunition runs out. He journeys to the far side of the island, finding better land and more plentiful game there. He describes the difficulties overcome in learning to weave baskets…

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   May 2, 2006
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   Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe - Part 6

   Download Robinson Crusoe - Part 6 Crusoe continues to offer the reader his journal entries, describing how he brought supplies from off the shipwreck. He battles sickness and finds a way to speed his recovery. He begins to read a copy of the Bible that he finds in one of his chests. This causes…

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   Apr 10, 2006
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    Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe - Part 5

    Download Robinson Crusoe - Part 5 Crusoe explains how he made his own tools and built his home on the island. He begins to show us his journal entries which track each day's activities. He goes hunting and, much to his surprise, begins to use agriculture. All his mental efforts are bent toward...

    Apr 3, 2006
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    Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe - Part 4

    Download Robinson Crusoe - Part 4 Crusoe experiences a terrifying shipwreck and is the only survivor. His struggle for food, water, and a place to sleep begin. No matter what situation Crusoe finds himself in, he never stops thinking. The illustration is by NC Wyeth (1920). It illustrates…

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    Mar 27, 2006
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    Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe - Part 3

    Download Robinson Crusoe - Part 3 In this section of the novel, Crusoe continues making good on his escape. He then makes a series of fateful decisions as he tries to get on his feet and make a life for himself. Defoe begins to get into the slavery issue and how it plays the major role in…

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    Mar 18, 2006
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    Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe - Part 2

    Download Robinson Crusoe - Part 2 Crusoe learns more of what it means to be a seaman. He is captured off the west coast of Africa and made a slave. In this section of the novel we get into Defoe's treatment of the issues of slavery and race. Reading the early parts of the novel, one might get the...

    Mar 9, 2006
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    Promo for Sound Stories - It Helps Us Keep Recording

    Listen to the Sound Story Promo Pirate Jack and Robinson Crusoe are free podcasts. In order to help finance the continuing operations here at the blog and at CandlelightStories.com, I offer this little promotional piece of audio that tells you a little bit about the audio stories available in the...

    Mar 4, 2006
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    Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe - Part 1

    Click here to download Robinson Crusoe - Part 1 Here is the little surprise I promised last week. 'Robinson Crusoe' by Daniel Defoe is one of the greatest novels in existence. It marks the start of English novel-writing. There's so much more in this book than one would ever know from the silly...

    Mar 3, 2006