Tales of the Enchanted Islands of the Atlantic-Thomas Wentworth Higginson
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Preface of Tales of the Enchanted Islands of the Atlantic. This is a Libervox recording. All Libervox recordings are in the public domain. For more information or to volunteer, please visit libervox dot org According by Arnie Horton Tales of the Enchanted Islands of the Atlantic. By Thomas Higginson. Preface Hawthorne, in his wonder book, has described the beautiful Greek myths and traditions, but no one has yet made similar use of the wondrous tales that gathered for more than a thousand years about the islands of the Atlantic deep. Although they are a part of the mythical period of American history, these hazy legends were altogether disdained by the earlier historians. Indeed, George Bancroft made it a matter of actual pride that the beginning of the American Annals was bare and literal.
But in truth, no national history has been less prosaic as to its earlier traditions, because every visitor had to cross the sea to reach it, and the sea has always been, by the mystery of its horizon, the fury of its storms, and the variableness of the atmosphere above it, the foreordained land of romance. In all ages and with all sea going races, there has always been something especially fascinating about an island amid the ocean. Its very existence has for all explorers an air of magic. An island offers to us heights rising from depths, it exhibits that which is most fixed beside that which is most changeable, the fertile beside the barren, and safety after danger. The ocean forever tends to encroach on the islands.
The island upon the ocean. They exist side by side. Friends, yet enemies, the islands signify safety and calm. And yet danger in storms. In a tempest, the sailor rejoices that he is not near it, even if previously bound for it, he puts about and steers for the open sea. Often if he seeks it, he cannot reach it. The present writer spent a winter on the island of Fayal, and saw in a storm a full rigged ship drift through the harbour disabled, having lost her anchors, and it was a week before she again made the port. There are groups of islands scattered over the tropical ocean, especially to which might well be given Herman Melville's name Las Encantadas, the Enchanted Islands. These islands, usually volcanic, have no vegetation but cactuses or wiry bushes with strange names and
No inhabitants but insects and reptiles, lizards, spiders, snakes, with vast tortoises which seem of immemorial age, and are coated with seaweed and the slime of the ocean. If there are any birds, it is the strange and heavy penguin, the passing albatross, or the mother carry's chicken, which has been called the hummingbird of ocean, and here finds a place for its young. By night these birds come for their repose. At earliest dawn they take wing and hover over the sea. Leaving the isle deserted. The only busy or beautiful life which always surrounds it is that of a myriad species of fish of all forms and shapes, and often more gorgeous than any butterflies in gold and scarlet and yellow.
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Chapters
5 chapters
1
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0:00–9:55
2
How does the narrator introduce the Preface and set the stage for the tales?
9:55–10:50
3
What is the story of the lost island of Atlantis and its warning to future generations?
10:50–18:03
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How does the tale of the Radiant Brow (Taliesin) unfold and lead into the next legends?
18:03–2:09:53
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What adventures do Morgana and her sisters experience?
2:09:53–4:54:41