The Maroon by Mayne Reid
Maroon by Thomas Mayne Reid is a thrilling adventure novel set in the Caribbean during the 18th century. The story follows the protagonist, Desmond, a young man who is shipwrecked on a deserted island and forced to fend for himself. As he struggles to survive, he encounters a group of escaped slaves who have formed their own community in the wilds of the island.
Table of Content
Volume 1
Chapter 1 A Jamaica Sugar Estate
Chapter 11 Loftus Vaughan on the Look-out
Chapter 14 Travelling at the Tail
Chapter 18 The Encounter of the Cousins
Chapter 22 A Couch of Silk-Cotton
Chapter 31 An Unexpected Patron
Chapter 33 Another of the Same
Chapter 34 A Sweetheart Expected
Chapter 35 A Love Scene under a Cieba
Volume 2
Chapter 1 Smythje in Shooting Costume
Chapter 4 Smythje Embarrassed by his Boots
Chapter 7 Quashie in a Quandry
Chapter 8 A Scarcity of Trousers
Chapter 9 Herbert in the Happy Valley
Chapter 10 In Search of Justice
Chapter 11 Magistrate and Maroon
Chapter 12 The Smythje Eclipse
Chapter 13 A Proposal Postponed
Chapter 15 An Encounter of Eyes
Chapter 20 Chakra, the Myal-Man
Chapter 24 The Bargain of Obeah
Chapter 25 The Mysterious Motive
Chapter 27 The Invocation of Accompong
Chapter 29 Tracking the Strollers
Chapter 31 Strange Disclosures
Chapter 35 Stalking the Sleeper
Chapter 36 A Mission for the Man-Hunters
Volume 3
Chapter 3 The Mysterious Absence
Chapter 7 Quaco's Queer Encounter
Chapter 9 An Equestrian Excursion
Chapter 10 Smythje Among the Statues
Chapter 11 A Strange Determination
Chapter 12 A Jealous Reconnoissance
Chapter 14 A Fell Purpose Defeated
Chapter 16 A Day of Conjectures
Chapter 19 Two Speculative Travellers
Chapter 21 The Captures of Caçadores
Chapter 23 Chakra on the Back Track
Chapter 24 The Vigil of Love and the Vigil of Jealousy
Chapter 27 Chakra Trimming his Lamp
Chapter 29 The Cry of the Solitaire
Chapter 32 Burglars! Robbers! Murderers!
Chapter 34 Smythje Still Living
Chapter 35 On the Track of the Destroyer
Chapter 37 The Corpse of a Cousin
Chapter 39 A New Job for Chakra
Chapter 41 Quaco Turned Myal-Man
Chapter 45 An Involuntary Suicide