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Author: John Conroy Hutcheson (1840-1897)
Added by: NicholasHodson
Added Date: 2007-02-11
Language: English
Subjects: Athelstane; Hutcheson; Ghost; Ship; PDF; HTML;
Publishers: Athelstane e-Books, London, England, United Kingdom
Collections: folkscanomy fiction, folkscanomy, additional collections
Pages Count: 319
PPI Count: 72
PDF Count: 2
Total Size: 113.46 MB
PDF Size: 74.97 MB
Extensions: djvu, gif, htm, pdf, gz, torrent, zip
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Year: 1903
Contributor: Nick Hodson
License: Unknown License
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Total Files: 23
Media Type: texts
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Description
This book intentionally veers in and out of the supernatural, as the title implies. The officers get more and more bewildered as they work out their position, and yet again encounter the same vessel going in an impossible direction.
Having warned you of this, I must say that it is a well-written book about life aboard an ocean-going steamer at about the end of the nineteenth century.
You will find it worth listening to, or reading, and I recommend it.
It has been very hard to find anything about the life of John Conroy Hutcheson. He was born in Jersey, Channel Islands, in 1840, and died in Portsea, England, in late 1896 or early 1897. This was picked up from the Register of Births, Deaths and Marriages. He wrote about 18 novels, most, though not all, about the sea.
A PDF of scans and an HTML version of this book are provided. We also provide a plain TEXT version and full instructions for using this to make your own audiobook. To find these click on the PDF, HTML or TXT links on the left.
These transcriptions of books by various nineteenth century authors of instructive books for teenagers, were made during the period 1997 to the present day by Athelstane e-Books. Most of the books are concerned with the sea, but in any case all will give a good idea of life in the nineteenth century. This of course includes attitudes prevalent at the time, but frowned upon nowadays.
We used a Hewlett-Packard scanner, a Plustek OpticBook 3600 scanner or a Nikkon Coolpix 5700 camera to scan the pages. We then made a pdf which we used to assist with editing the OCRed text.
To make a text version we used TextBridge Pro 98 or ABBYY Finereader 7 or 8 to produce a first draft of the text, and Athelstane software to find misreads and improve the text. We proof-read the chapters, and then made a CD with the book read aloud by either Fonix ISpeak or TextAloud MP3. The last step enables us to hear and correct most of the errors that may have been missed by the other steps, as well as entertaining us during the work of transcription.
The resulting text can be read either on the Internet Archive or at www.athelstane.co.uk
