Doctor Dogbody's Leg by James Norman Hall, Read by Vincent Caruso

Podcast: Book Friends Forever · HachetteAudio

Opublikowano: 2026-10-20

An uproariously funny collection of sea tales from the coauthor of Mutiny on the Bounty—a cult classic available in print again for the first time in this century. In Portsmouth, by the fireside of the Cheerful Tortoise taproom, British seamen regale themselves with tales of seafaring adventures and mishaps. Enter the one-legged Royal Navy surgeon, Doctor F. Dogbody, raconteur extraordinaire. In each of the ten stories collected here, the good doctor recounts the loss of his “larboard” leg, and each story is more outrageous and hilarious than the last. Weaving rich historical detail into his fantastical tapestry, Dogbody encounters such r...