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Java Head

Java Head is a novel of the American merchant marine at the beginning of the great clipper ship era. It is laid in Salem, when that city was still a port rich with the traffic of the East Indies; a story of choleric ship masters, charming girls, and an aristocratic Manchu woman in carmine and jades and crusted gold. There is a drama as secret and poisonous as opium, lovely old gardens with lilac trees and green lattices, and elm-shaded streets ending at the harbor with the brigs unloading ivory from Africa and the ships crowding on their topsails for Canton. It is a romantic novel-and yet true-rather than a study of drab manners; there is no purpose in it other than the pleasure to be found in the spectacle of life supported by high courage and made beautiful by women in peacock shawls. (From the back cover of the 1919 edition)

Year of Publication: 1918Genres: Family Life,Culture & Heritage Fiction

Running Time: 07 hours 51 minutes 46 seconds(11 chapters)

Language: EnglishRead by: Margaret Espaillat

#	Chapter Name
	Chapter 1 Margaret Espaillat	47:25
	Chapter 2 Margaret Espaillat	45:27
	Chapter 3 Margaret Espaillat	33:09
	Chapter 4 Margaret Espaillat	46:57
	Chapter 5 Margaret Espaillat	47:55
	Chapter 6 Margaret Espaillat	41:14
	Chapter 7, Part 1 Margaret Espaillat	34:10
	Chapter 7, Part 2 Margaret Espaillat	30:09
	Chapter 8 Margaret Espaillat	58:45
	Chapter 9 Margaret Espaillat	52:56
	Chapter 10 Margaret Espaillat	33:39