There's a good version on Standard Ebooks. Greg Wagland's rendition is also great.^👂

For thirty years, I've sailed the seas and seen good and bad, better and worse, fair weather and foul, provisions running out, knives going, and what not. Well, now I tell you, I never seen good come o' goodness yet. Him as strikes first is my fancy; dead men don't bite; them's my views—amen, so be it.

• It's wild to think how many of today's pirate tropes this popularized or influenced^☠️ Yo ho ho and a bottle of rum!
• Pew was a really menacing minor villain! I was genuinely scared of him.
• Despite the mutiny, everyone has a very strong code of honour. Jim makes promises to the pirates and desperately hopes to keep them, to his great personal risk.
• They didn't know what caused malaria back then. The doctor is going on about the quality of the air: low, boggy air was bad. dry, mountainous air was good. Cool to see some proto-science.
• The novel's awash with nautical terminology. How many of these words and terms did the average British kid know back then?

I think I might be entering my audiobook era. Going for a run getting lost in a story is a delightful double-dip, though I wish it were possible to highlight noteworthy excerpts while listening.