# First and Last

An audiobook by Hilaire Belloc, read by LibriVox volunteers (7 h 27 min, English).

“When a man weighs anchor in a little ship or a large one he does a jolly thing! He cuts himself off and he starts for freedom and for the chance of things. He pulls the jib a-weather, he leans to her slowly pulling round, he sees the wind getting into the mainsail, and he feels that she feels the helm. He has her on a slant of the wind, and he makes out between the harbour piers.” (quotation from Hilaire Belloc)

[Listen](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/books/librivox/3215)
[Read the book](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/books/gutenberg/7352/read)