Historic Boys: Their Endeavours, Their Achievements, and Their TimesBrooks, Elbridge S. (Elbridge Streeter)
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Historic Boys: Their Endeavours, Their Achievements, and Their Times
Brooks, Elbridge S. (Elbridge Streeter)
Biography -- Juvenile literature; Boys -- Biography
Commencing amid the fairy-like scenes and surroundings of a West Indian
home, this story passes to Tom Eastman's setting sail from the Windward
Islands on a voyage to England. At first the good ship _Josephine_ glides
buoyantly through the balmy waters of the Caribbean Sea, but getting out
into the broad Atlantic, calm and whirlwind are succeeded by a gale which
drives her to the confines of the Sargasso Sea, that meadow-like portion
of the ocean, between the Azores and Bermuda, which is constantly covered
with the fibrous tentacles of the gulf-weed. Here a sudden and unexpected
"white squall" assails her--the _Josephine_ is turned over on her
beam-ends, and the captain and crew climb up on the ship's keel for
shelter. How they extricate themselves from this terrible predicament, and
how the _Josephine_ is righted and pursues her voyage safely to the
English Channel, the reader will discover in the book.
_THE WRECK OF THE NANCY BELL:_
Or, Cast Away on Kerguelen Land. By JOHN C. HUTCHESON. Illustrated
by 6 full-page Pictures by FRANK FELLER, in black and tint.
Crown 8vo, cloth extra, 3_s._ 6_d._
This is a book after a boy's own heart. The story narrates the eventful
voyage of a vessel from the port of London to New Zealand, and the haps
and mishaps that befell her, culminating in the wreck of the _Nancy Bell_
on Kerguelen Land. There is no lack of incident. From the opening chapter,
with the cowardly steward's alarm of "a ghost in the cabin," to the end of
the story, which details the rescue of the shipwrecked passengers, one
engrossing narrative holds the attention of the reader.
"A full circumstantial narrative such as boys delight in. The
ship so sadly destined to wreck on Kerguelen Land is manned by
a very life-like party, passengers and crew. The life in the
Antarctic Iceland is well treated."--_Athenaeum._
_TOM FINCH'S MONKEY_
And other Yarns. By JOHN C. HUTCHESON. With 2 full-page
Illustrations in black and tint. Crown 8vo, cloth extra, 1_s._
6_d._
"Short stories of an altogether unexceptionable character, with
adventure sufficient for a dozen books of its size."--_United
Service Gazette._
#BY JOHN C. HUTCHESON.#
"Mr. Hutcheson is master of a capital style for boy
readers."--_Scotsman._
_PICKED UP AT SEA:_
Or the Gold Miners of Minturne Creek; and other Stories. By JOHN C.
HUTCHESON. With 6 full-page Pictures in tints. Crown 8vo, cloth
extra, 3_s._ 6_d._
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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