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Vagabond Adventures

Vagabond Adventures

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Number of Chapters: 25

Length: 05 hours and 20 minutes

Language: English

Ralph Keeler failed as a novelist, but this autobiography reflects a life well-lived with humor and adventure. Keeler was in the same literary circle as satirist Bret Harte, novelist Charles Warren Stoddard, editor Thomas Bailey Aldrich, and essayist William Dean Howells. He so impressed Mark Twain that Twain wrote an essay about him called "Ralph Keeler". In 1873, on his way to Cuba, he reportedly was thrown overboard by a Spanish loyalist who objected to his backing of the revolutionary, anti-Spanish movement. - Summary by John Greenman

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BOOK I. AMONG WHARVES AND CABINS. CHAPTER I. Prefatory (John Greenman)
CHAPTER II. Family Matters (John Greenman)
CHAPTER III. A Fugitive (John Greenman)
CHAPTER IV. A Stormy Time (John Greenman)
CHAPTER V. A Boy’s Paradise (John Greenman)
CHAPTER VI. The Contumely of Captains (John Greenman)
CHAPTER VII. Almost a Tragedy (John Greenman)
CHAPTER VIII. Taken Prisoner (John Greenman)
CHAPTER IX. Squalor (John Greenman)
CHAPTER X. A Final Triumph (John Greenman)
BOOK II. THREE YEARS AS A NEGRO-MINSTREL. CHAPTER I. My First Company (John Greenman)
CHAPTER II. I become a Beneficiary (John Greenman)
CHAPTER III. The Fate of the Serenaders (John Greenman)
CHAPTER IV. The Trials and Triumphs of the “Booker Troupe” (John Greenman)
CHAPTER V. The Last of the “Booker Troupe” (John Greenman)
CHAPTER VI. “The Mitchells” (John Greenman)
CHAPTER VII. On the Floating Palace (John Greenman)
CHAPTER VIII. Wild Life (John Greenman)
CHAPTER IX. The Performer Socially (John Greenman)
CHAPTER X. Adieu to the Stage (John Greenman)
BOOK III. THE TOUR OF EUROPE FOR $181 IN CURRENCY. CHAPTER I. Starting on a Cattle-Train (John Greenman)
CHAPTER II. Taking to European Ways (John Greenman)
CHAPTER III. Student Life and Wanderings (John Greenman)
CHAPTER IV. A Fight with Famine (John Greenman)
CHAPTER V. The Conclusion (John Greenman)
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