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Historic Adventures, Tales from American History, by Rupert S. Holland. : (full image Illustrated) Rupert S. Holland (Editor) B00C0DUEU6 File Size: 857 KB     BUY NOW Book Description :- Historic Adventures, Tales from American History, by Rupert S. Holland. : (full image Illustrated) Contents : I. The Lost Children II. The Great Journey of Lewis and Clark III. The Conspiracy of Aaron Burr IV. How the Young Republic Fought the Barbary Pirates V. The Fate of Lovejoy's Printing-Press VI. How Marcus Whitman Saved Oregon VII. How the Mormons Came to Settle Utah VIII. The Golden Days of 'Forty-Nine IX. How the United States Made Friends with Japan X. The Pig that Almost Caused a War XI. John Brown at Harper's Ferry XII. An Arctic Explorer XIII. The Story of Alaska XIV. How the "Merrimac" was Sunk in Santiago Harbor Illustrations : Shooting tongues of smoke from their great black throats Sawquehanna seemed to remember the voice Decatur caught the Moor's arm The last six hundred miles were the hardest Nauvoo had handsome houses and public buildings Wherever there was a stream explorers began to dig The teams, exhausted, began to fail Spanish boats pulled close to them   True Tales of Mountain Adventures For Non-Climbers Young and Old by Mrs. Aubrey Le Blond : (full image Illustrated) MRS AUBREY LE BLOND (Author, Preface) B00CXS40I0 File Size: 3294 KB     BUY NOW Book Description :- There is no manlier sport in the world than mountaineering. It is true that all the sports Englishmen take part in are manly, but mountaineering is different from others, because it is sport purely for the sake of sport. There is no question of beating any one else, as in a race or a game, or of killing an animal or a bird as in hunting or shooting. A mountaineer sets his skill and his strength against the difficulty of getting to the top of a steep peak. Either he conquers the mountain, or it conquers him. If he fails, he keeps on trying till he succeeds. This teaches him perseverance, and proves to him that anything is possible if he is determined to do it. In mountaineering, all the party share the pleasures and the dangers. Every climber has to help the others. Every climber has to rely both on himself and on his companions. Mountaineering makes a person quick in learning how to act in moments of danger. It cultivates his presence of mind, it teaches him to be unselfish and thoughtful for others who may be with him. It takes him amongst the grandest scenery in the world, it shows him the forces of nature let loose in the blinding snow-storm, or the roaring avalanche. It lifts him above all the petty friction of daily life, and takes him where the atmosphere is always pure, and the outlook calm and wide. It brings him health, and leaves him delightful recollections. It gives him friends both amongst his fellow-climbers, and in the faithful guides who season after season accompany him. It is a pursuit which he can commence early in life, and continue till old age, for the choice of expeditions is endless, and ascents of all scales of difficulty and of any length are easily found. That I do not exaggerate the joys and the benefits of mountaineering will be borne out by those extracts from the true tales from the hills of which this book chiefly consists. Some may think I have dwelt at undue length on the catastrophes which have darkened the pages of Alpine history. I do not apologize. If in one single instance any one who reads these pages becomes afterwards a climber, and takes warning from anything I have told him, I am amply justified. It has been difficult in a work like this to know always what to include and what to omit. My guiding principle has been to give preference to descriptions which are either so exciting by reason of the facts narrated, or else so brilliantly and wittily written, that they cannot fail to excite the reader's interest. To these I have added four chapters, those on mountaineering, on glaciers, on avalanches, and on the guides of the Alps, which may help to make climbing more intelligible to those who have never attempted it. My warm thanks are due to Sir Leslie Stephen, Messrs Whymper, Tuckett, Charles Pilkington, and Clinton Dent who have rendered the production of this book possible by allowing me to quote at considerable length from their writings; also to Messrs Longman who have permitted me to make extracts from works of which they hold the copyright, and to Messrs Newnes and Messrs Hutchinson for their kind permission to re-print portions of my articles which have appeared in their publications. I am also under a debt of gratitude to Mr Philip Gosset, who has not only allowed me to reprint his account of the avalanche on the Haut-de-Cry, but has also most kindly placed his wide knowledge of glaciers at my disposal by offering to revise the chapter I have written on that subject in this book. Dr Kennedy, whose beautiful edition of Mr Moore's diary, "The Alps in 1864," recently appeared, has generously given me permission to make any extracts I desire from it. Colonel Arkwright, whose brother perished on Mont Blanc in 1866, has been good enough to allow me to reproduce a most interesting and hitherto unpublished photograph of the relics discovered in 1897. The illustrations, except those connected with the Arkwright accident, and a view of the Matterhorn, by the late Mr W. F. Donkin, are   The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Complete by Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) : (full image Illustrated) Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) File Size: 8786 KB.     BUY NOW Book Description :- The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Complete by Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) : (full image Illustrated) fiction, Adventure, Strategic, Triumph, Reward, Self-Examination, Pirates PREFACE Most of the adventures recorded in this book really occurred; one or two were experiences of my own, the rest those of boys who were schoolmates of mine. Huck Finn is drawn from life; Tom Sawyer also, but not from an individual?he is a combination of the characteristics of three boys whom I knew, and therefore belongs to the composite order of architecture. The odd superstitions touched upon were all prevalent among children and slaves in the West at the period of this story?that is to say, thirty or forty years ago. Although my book is intended mainly for the entertainment of boys and girls, I hope it will not be shunned by men and women on that account, for part of my plan has been to try to pleasantly remind adults of what they once were themselves, and of how they felt and thought and talked, and what queer enterprises they sometimes engaged in. THE AUTHOR. HARTFORD, 1876. CONTENTS CHAPTER I. Y-o-u-u Tom-Aunt Polly Decides Upon her Duty ?Tom Practices Music ?The Challenge ?A Private Entrance CHAPTER II. Strong Temptations ?Strategic Movements ?The Innocents Beguiled CHAPTER III. Tom as a General ?Triumph and Reward ?Dismal Felicity ?Commission and Omission CHAPTER IV. Mental Acrobatics ?Attending Sunday ?School ?The Superintendent ?"Showing off" ?Tom Lionized CHAPTER V. A Useful Minister ?In Church ?The Climax CHAPTER VI. Self-Examination ?Dentistry ?The Midnight Charm ?Witches and Devils ?Cautious Approaches ?Happy Hours CHAPTER VII. A Treaty Entered Into ?Early Lessons ?A Mistake Made CHAPTER VIII. Tom Decides on his Course ?Old Scenes Re-enacted CHAPTER IX. A Solemn Situation ?Grave Subjects Introduced ?Injun Joe Explains CHAPTER X. The Solemn Oath ?Terror Brings Repentance ?Mental Punishment CHAPTER XI. Muff Potter Comes Himself ?Tom's Conscience at Work CHAPTER XII. Tom Shows his Generosity ?Aunt Polly Weakens CHAPTER XIII. The Young Pirates ?Going to the Rendezvous ?The Camp ?Fire Talk CHAPTER XIV. Camp-Life ?A Sensation ?Tom Steals Away from Camp CHAPTER XV. Tom Reconnoiters ?Learns the Situation ?Reports at Camp CHAPTER XVI. A Day's Amusements ?Tom Reveals a Secret ?The Pirates take a Lesson ?A Night Surprise ?An Indian War CHAPTER XVII. Memories of the Lost Heroes ?The Point in Tom's Secret CHAPTER XVIII. Tom's Feelings Investigated ?Wonderful Dream ?Becky Thatcher Overshadowed ?Tom Becomes Jealous ?Black Revenge CHAPTER XIX. Tom Tells the Truth CHAPTER XX. Becky in a Dilemma ?Tom's Nobility Asserts Itself CHAPTER XXI. Youthful Eloquence ?Compositions by the Young Ladies ?A Lengthy Vision ?The Boy's Vengeance Satisfied CHAPTER XXII. Tom's Confidence Betrayed ?Expects Signal Punishment CHAPTER XXIII. Old Muff's Friends ?Muff Potter in Court ?Muff Potter Saved CHAPTER XXIV. Tom as the Village Hero ?Days of Splendor and Nights of Horror ?Pursuit of Injun Joe CHAPTER XXV. About Kings and Diamonds ?Search for the Treasure ?Dead People and Ghosts CHAPTER XXVI. The Haunted House ?Sleepy Ghosts ?A Box of Gold ?Bitter Luck CHAPTER XXVII. Doubts to be Settled ?The Young Detectives CHAPTER XXVIII. An Attempt at No. Two ?Huck Mounts Guard CHAPTER XXIX. The Pic-nic ?Huck on Injun Joe's Track ?The "Revenge" Job ?Aid for the Widow CHAPTER XXX. The Welchman Reports ?Huck Under Fire ?The Story Circulated ?A New Sensation ?Hope Giving Way to Despair CHAPTER XXXI. An Exploring Expedition ?Trouble Commences ?Lost in the Cave ?Total Darkness ?Found but not Saved CHAPTER XXXII. Tom tells the Story of their Escape ?Tom's Enemy in Safe Quarters CHAPTER XXXIII. The Fate of Injun Joe ?Huck and Tom Compare Notes ?An Expedition to the Cave ?Protection Against Ghosts ?"An Awful Snug Place" ?A Reception at the Widow Douglas's CHAPTER XXXIV. Springing a Secret ?Mr. Jones' Surprise a Failure CHAPTER XXXV. A New Order of Things ?Poor Huck ?New Adventures Planned ILLUSTRATIONS Tom Sawyer Tom at Home Aunt Polly Beguiled A Good Opportunity Who's Afraid Late Home Jim 'Tendin' to Business Ain't that Work? Cat and Toys Amusement Becky Thatcher Paying Off After the Battle "Showing Off" Not Amiss Mary Tom Contemplating Dampened Ardor Youth Boyhood Using the "Barlow" The Church Necessities Tom as a Sunday-School Hero The Prize At Church The Model Boy The Church Choir A Side Show Result of Playing in Church The Pinch-Bug Sid Dentistry Huckleberry Finn Mother Hopkins Result of Tom's Truthfulness Tom as an Artist Interrupted Courtship The Master Vain Pleading Tail Piece The Grave in the Woods Tom Meditates Robin Hood and his Foe Death of Robin Hood Midnight Tom's Mode of Egress Tom's Effort at Prayer Muff Potter Outwitted The Graveyard Forewarnings Disturbing Muff's Sleep Tom's Talk with his Aunt Muff Potter A Suspicious Incident Injun Joe's two Victims In the Coils Peter Aunt Polly seeks Information A General Good Time Demoralized Joe Harper On Board Their First Prize The Pirates Ashore Wild Life The Pirate's Bath The Pleasant Stroll The Search for the Drowned The Mysterious Writing River View What Tom Saw Tom Swims the River Taking Lessons The Pirates' Egg Market Tom Looking for Joe's Knife The Thunder Storm Terrible Slaughter The Mourner Tom's Proudest Moment Amy Lawrence Tom tries to Remember The Hero A Flirtation Becky Retaliates A Sudden Frost Counter-irritation Aunt Polly Tom justified The Discovery Caught in the Act Tom Astonishes the School Literature Tom Declaims Examination Evening On Exhibition Prize Authors The Master's Dilemma The School House The Cadet Happy for Two Days Enjoying the Vacation The Stolen Melons The Judge Visiting the Prisoner Tom Swears The Court Room The Detective Tom Dreams The Treasure The Private Conference A King; Poor Fellow! Business The Ha'nted House Injun Joe The Greatest and Best Hidden Treasures Unearthed The Boy's Salvation Room No. 2 The Next Day's Conference Treasures Uncle Jake Buck at Home The Haunted Room "Run for Your Life" McDougal's Cave Inside the Cave Huck on Duty A Rousing Act Tail Piece The Welchman Result of a Sneeze Cornered Alarming Discoveries Tom and Becky stir up the Town Tom's Marks Huck Questions the Widow Vampires Wonders of the Cave Attacked by Natives Despair The Wedding Cake A New Terror Daylight "Turn Out" to Receive Tom and Becky The Escape from the Cave Fate of the Ragged Man The Treasures Found Caught at Last Drop after Drop Having a Good Time A Business Trip "Got it at Last!" Tail Piece Widow Douglas Tom Backs his Statement Tail Piece Huck Transformed Comfortable Once More High up in Society Contentment   Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (TOM SAWYER'S COMRADE), Complete by Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) : (full image Illustrated) Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) B00HUDBK3G File Size: 9909 KB.     BUY NOW Book Description :- Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (TOM SAWYER'S COMRADE), Complete by Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) : (full image Illustrated) fiction, children, Adventure, boys, widow, robber, tales YOU don't know about me without you have read a book by the name of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer; but that ain't no matter. That book was made by Mr. Mark Twain, and he told the truth, mainly. There was things which he stretched, but mainly he told the truth. That is nothing. I never seen anybody but lied one time or another, without it was Aunt Polly, or the widow, or maybe Mary. Aunt Polly ? Tom's Aunt Polly, she is ? and Mary, and the Widow Douglas is all told about in that book, which is mostly a true book, with some stretchers, as I said before. Now the way that the book winds up is this: Tom and me found the money that the robbers hid in the cave, and it made us rich. We got six thousand dollars apiece ? all gold. It was an awful sight of money when it was piled up. Well, Judge Thatcher he took it and put it out at interest, and it fetched us a dollar a day apiece all the year round ? more than a body could tell what to do with. The Widow Douglas she took me for her son, and allowed she would sivilize me; but it was rough living in the house all the time, considering how dismal regular and decent the widow was in all her ways; and so when I couldn't stand it no longer I lit out. I got into my old rags and my sugar-hogshead again, and was free and satisfied. But Tom Sawyer he hunted me up and said he was going to start a band of robbers, and I might join if I would go back to the widow and be respectable. So I went back. CONTENTS Civilizing Huck. ? Miss Watson. ? Tom Sawyer Waits. The Boys Escape Jim. ? Torn Sawyer's Gang. ? Deep-laid Plans. A Good Going-over. ? Grace Triumphant. ? "One of Tom Sawyers's Lies". Huck and the Judge. ? Superstition. Huck's Father. ? The Fond Parent. ? Reform. He Went for Judge Thatcher. ? Huck Decided to Leave. ? Political Economy. ? Thrashing Around. Laying for Him. ? Locked in the Cabin. ? Sinking the Body. ? Resting. Sleeping in the Woods. ? Raising the Dead. ? Exploring the Island. ? Finding Jim. ? Jim's Escape. ? Signs. ? Balum. The Cave. ? The Floating House. The Find. ? Old Hank Bunker. ? In Disguise. Huck and the Woman. ? The Search. ? Prevarication. ? Going to Goshen. Slow Navigation. ? Borrowing Things. ? Boarding the Wreck. ? The Plotters. ? Hunting for the Boat. Escaping from the Wreck. ? The Watchman. ? Sinking. A General Good Time. ? The Harem. ? French. Huck Loses the Raft. ? In the Fog. ? Huck Finds the Raft. ? Trash. Expectation. ? A White Lie. ? Floating Currency. ? Running by Cairo. ? Swimming Ashore. An Evening Call. ? The Farm in Arkansaw. ? Interior Decorations. ? Stephen Dowling Bots. ? Poetical Effusions. Col. Grangerford. ? Aristocracy. ? Feuds. ? The Testament. ? Recovering the Raft. ? The Wood ? pile. ? Pork and Cabbage. Tying Up Day ? times. ? An Astronomical Theory. ? Running a Temperance Revival. ? The Duke of Bridgewater. ? The Troubles of Royalty. Huck Explains. ? Laying Out a Campaign. ? Working the Camp ? meeting. ? A Pirate at the Camp ? meeting. ? The Duke as a Printer. Sword Exercise. ? Hamlet's Soliloquy. ? They Loafed Around Town. ? A Lazy Town. ? Old Boggs. ? Dead. Sherburn. ? Attending the Circus. ? Intoxication in the Ring. ? The Thrilling Tragedy. Sold. ? Royal Comparisons. ? Jim Gets Home-sick. Jim in Royal Robes. ? They Take a Passenger. ? Getting Information. ? Family Grief. Is It Them? ? Singing the "Doxologer." ? Awful Square ? Funeral Orgies. ? A Bad Investment . A Pious King. ? The King's Clergy. ? She Asked His Pardon. ? Hiding in the Room. ? Huck Takes the Money. The Funeral. ? Satisfying Curiosity. ? Suspicious of Huck, ? Quick Sales and Small. The Trip to England. ? "The Brute!" ? Mary Jane Decides to Leave. ? Huck Parting with Mary Jane. ? Mumps. ? The Opposition Line. Contested Relationship. ? The King Explains the Loss. ? A Question of Handwriting. ? Digging up the Corpse. ? Huck Escapes. The King Went for Him. ? A Royal Row. ? Powerful Mellow. Ominous Plans. ? News from Jim. ? Old Recollections. ? A Sheep Story. ? Valuable Information. Still and Sunday ? like. ? Mistaken Identity. ? Up a Stump. ? In a Dilemma. A Nigger Stealer. ? Southern Hospitality. ? A Pretty Long Blessing. ? Tar and Feathers. The Hut by the Ash Hopper. ? Outrageous. ? Climbing the Lightning Rod. ? Troubled with Witches. Escaping Properly. ? Dark Schemes. ? Discrimination in Stealing. ? A Deep Hole. The Lightning Rod. ? His Level Best. ? A Bequest to Posterity. ? A High Figure. The Last Shirt. ? Mooning Around. ? Sailing Orders. ? The Witch Pie. The Coat of Arms. ? A Skilled Superintendent. ? Unpleasant Glory. ? A Tearful Subject. Rats. ? Lively Bed ? fellows. ? The Straw Dummy. Fishing. ? The Vigilance Committee. ? A Lively Run. ? Jim Advises Doctor. The Doctor. ? Uncle Silas. ? Sister Hotchkiss. ? Aunt Sally in Trouble. Tom Sawyer Wounded. ? The Doctor's Story. ? Tom Confesses. ? Aunt Polly Arrives. ? Hand Out Them Letters . Out of Bondage. ? Paying the Captive. ? Yours Truly, Huck Finn.   Abroad at Home / American Ramblings, Observations, and Adventures of Julian Street by Julian Street : (full image Illustrated) Julian Street B00JYIDY6G File Size: 2834 KB.     BUY NOW Book Description :- travel, adventure, Rambling, Abroad, United States, CLEVELAND, MARK TWAIN STEPPING WESTWARD "What, you are stepping westward?"-"Yea." --'Twould be a wildish destiny, If we, who thus together roam In a strange Land, and far from home, Were in this place the guests of Chance: Yet who would stop or fear to advance, Though home or shelter he had none, With such a sky to lead him on? --Wordsworth. For some time I have desired to travel over the United States?to ramble and observe and seek adventure here, at home, not as a tourist with a short vacation and a round-trip ticket, but as a kind of privateer with a roving commission. The more I have contemplated the possibility the more it has engaged me. For we Americans, though we are the most restless race in the world, with the possible exception of the Bedouins, almost never permit ourselves to travel, either at home or abroad, as the "guests of Chance." We always go from one place to another with a definite purpose. We never amble. On the boat, going to Europe, we talk of leisurely trips away from the "beaten track," but we never take them. After we land we rush about obsessed by "sights," seeing with the eyes of guides and thinking the "canned" thoughts of guidebooks. In order to accomplish such a trip as I had thought of I was even willing to write about it afterward. Therefore I went to see a publisher and suggested that he send me out upon my travels. I argued that Englishmen, from Dickens to Arnold Bennett, had "done" America; likewise Frenchmen and Germans. And we have traveled over there and written about them. But Americans who travel at home to write (or, as in my case, write to travel) almost always go in search of some specific thing: to find corruption and expose it, to visit certain places and describe them in detail, or to catch, exclusively, the comic side. For my part, I did not wish to go in search of anything specific. I merely wished to take things as they might come. And?speaking of taking things?I wished, above all else, to take a good companion, and I had him all picked out: a man whose drawings I admire almost as much as I admire his disposition; the one being who might endure my presence for some months, sharing with me his joys and sorrows and collars and cigars, and yet remain on speaking terms with me. The publisher agreed to all. Then I told my New York friends that I was going. I was moving about my room, my hands full of hairbrushes and toothbrushes and clothesbrushes and shaving brushes; my head full of railroad trains, and hills, and plains, and valleys They were incredulous. That is the New York attitude of mind. Your "typical New Yorker" really thinks that any man who leaves Manhattan Island for any destination other than Europe or Palm Beach must be either a fool who leaves voluntarily or a criminal taken off by force. For the picturesque criminal he may be sorry, but for the fool he has scant pity. CONTENTS STEPPING WESTWARD BIFURCATED BUFFALO CLEVELAND CHARACTERISTICS MORE CLEVELAND CHARACTERISTICS DETROIT THE DYNAMIC AUTOMOBILES AND ART THE M?CENAS OF THE MOTOR THE CURIOUS CITY OF BATTLE CREEK KALAMAZOO GRAND RAPIDS THE "ELECT" A MIDDLE-WESTERN MIRACLE FIELD'S AND THE "TRIBUNE" THE STOCKYARDS THE HONORABLE HINKY DINK AN OLYMPIAN PLAN LOOKING BACKWARD SOMNOLENT ST. LOUIS THE FINER SIDE HANNIBAL AND MARK TWAIN PIKE AND POKER OLD RIVER DAYS KANSAS CITY ODDS AND ENDS COLONEL NELSON'S "STAR" KEEPING A PROMISE THE TAME LION KANSAS JOURNALISM A COLLEGE TOWN MONOTONY UNDER PIKE'S PEAK HITTING A HIGH SPOT COLORADO SPRINGS CRIPPLE CREEK THE MORMON CAPITAL THE SMITHS PASSING PICTURES SAN FRANCISCO "BEFORE THE FIRE" AN EXPOSITION AND A "BOOSTER" NEW YORK AGAIN ILLUSTRATIONS The St. Francis at tea-time.?With her hotels San Francisco is New York, but with her people she is San Francisco?which comes near being the apotheosis of praise. I was moving about my room, my hands full of hairbrushes and toothbrushes and clothesbrushes and shaving brushes; my head full of railroad   The Blue Dragon / A Tale of Recent Adventure in China by Kirk Munroe : (full image Illustrated) Kirk Munroe B00D94CO4O File Size: 720 KB.     BUY NOW Book Description :- fiction, history, adventure, Chinese, dragon, America, Flight The Blue Dragon, chosen as a title for this story, is the national emblem of China, adopted as such by a desire to flatter and propitiate that spirit of evil considered to be the most powerful. As the dragon is believed to be big enough and strong enough to overcome and devour all the other wicked genii who continually vex Chinese life, the wise men of the "Black-haired People" thought it best to have him on their side, and consequently accorded him the highest honor in their power to bestow. As we of America chose the eagle, strongest of visible air spirits, for our national emblem, so the Chinese chose the most powerful of invisible spirits in whose existence they believe as firmly as we do in the existence of things that we can see, hear, or feel. In the story thus entitled, I have endeavored to give an idea of what China has been, is, and may become through education and development, how she is regarded, and how her people are being treated by other nations, and what causes she has for resentment against those who are taking advantage of her feebleness to despoil her. While travelling in China, and trying to gain the Chinese point of view, I met so many charming people, so many men of intelligence and liberal education, honorable, broad-minded, and devoted to the uplifting of their unhappy country, that I became exceedingly interested in their cause, and anxious to aid it. With this object in view I am striving, through the medium of a story, to present it to those young Americans who, in the near future, will be called upon to decide the ultimate fate of the great Middle Kingdom. With them, more than with any other people, even including the Chinese themselves, will rest the decision, whether China shall remain a nation, open to the unobstructed commerce of the world, or become a series of petty colonial possessions devoted only to the interests of their several ruling powers. That my young readers may be guided to a wise and just solution of this great problem, is the sincere hope of their friend, Kirk Munroe. Biscayne Bay, Florida, January, 1904. CONTENTS 1. A Stranger in a Strange Land 2. America's Unfriendly Welcome 3. Rob to the Rescue 4. A Triumph for Jo's Enemies 5. Threatened Violence 6. The Sheriff Takes Prompt Measures 7. The Sentence of the Court 8. Jo's Enemies Prepare a Trap 9. Jo Finds that He is Some One Else 10. What Happened on the Way to China 11. Accept a Kindness and Pass It Along 12. From the Golden Gate to the Pearl River 13. In the World's Most Marvellous City 14. A Turn of Fortune's Tide 15. In the Heart of Unknown China 16. "Fists of Righteous Harmony" 17. Leaping into Unknown Blackness 18. A Supper of Sacred Eels 19. An Exhibition of the Rain-God's Anger 20. Rob Makes a Startling Discovery 21. The Refugees of Cheng-Ting-Fu 22. A Charge and a Race for Life 23. Stealing a Locomotive 24. The Timely Explosion of a Boiler 25. In China's Capital City 26. War Clouds 27. China Defies the World 28. Fighting Sixty Feet Above Ground 29. Jo Heaps Coals of Fire 30. The Capture of Pekin ILLUSTRATIONS "A HORSEMAN FLED BEFORE THEM" MAP SHOWING ROUTE FOLLOWED BY AUTHOR "AS POOR JO LOST HIS FOOTING AND FELL, ROB DASHED INTO THE MÊLÉE" "HIS MADLY YELLING PURSUERS WERE NOW CLOSE UPON HIM" "THE FUGITIVES MADE A CAUTIOUS ENTRY INTO THE SACRED PRECINCTS" "HE WAS ABLE TO GAZE CALMLY AT HER WHEN THEY ONCE MORE WERE ESCORTED PAST THE CATHEDRAL" "SO THEY DROVE ON, MILE AFTER MILE" "THE SAVAGES FLED IN DISMAY BEFORE THAT CHARGE OF YELLING AMERICANS"   Captured at Tripoli / A Tale of Adventure by Percy F. Westerman, MIRAGE, PERILS Author: Percy F. Westerman, Illustrator: Charles M. Sheldon B00HHVOS0I File Size: 566 KB.     BUY NOW Book Description :- WAR, FIGHT, DESERT, DISCOVERY, PRISONERS, MIRAGE, PERILS CHAPTER I. Off to the Seat of War "WELL, we've seen something of the fun," exclaimed Hugh Frazer, as the last of the 89th Regiment of Infantry filed through the jealously-guarded gateway of the Naval Yard at Naples. "Come on, let's get back to the front, and we may see the transports leave the bay."Hugh Hugh Frazer and his stanch companion, Gerald Kit-by, were staying with the former's parents at the Hôtel des Etrangers. Both lads had been spending their summer holidays in Italy, and were leaving for England at the end of the week. They ought to have been already at school, but a slight attack of malaria, which with the utmost impartiality had affected both boys, had prevented them from returning to Rossall at the commencement of the term. Hugh, more generally known to his companion as "Rags", a nickname bestowed upon him by reason of his hot-headed impulsiveness, was fifteen years of age, tall, well-proportioned, and dark-featured. Gerald, on the other hand, was three inches shorter, slightly inclined to stoutness, and of a fresh, ruddy complexion. His face almost invariably wore a smile, with the result that his schoolfellows promptly dubbed him "Sunny Jim", a nickname that eventually was fined down to "Jim". He was six months younger than Hugh, and so even-tempered that he seemed eminently suited to his companion's impulsive and masterful nature. Threading their way through the dense crowd of enthusiastic Neapolitans who still pressed round the now fast-closed gates, the two lads set off at a quick pace, in spite of the sweltering heat of that October afternoon. "Look out, Rags!" shouted Gerald, pulling his chum backwards just in time to escape being run down by a motor car that, packed with officers of the Bersaglieri, was pelting down the Strada Marina at a break-neck pace. The lads drew back, and found themselves under the noses of a couple of mules, which a fluent-voiced Neapolitan cabby was urging in the opposite direction. Lustily tugging at the ropes that did duty for reins, the man succeeded in pulling up, to the accompaniment of a volley of abuse directed towards the cause of the obstruction. The sudden halt caused the sole occupant of the ramshackle cab to thrust his head through the open window in order to ascertain the reason for the delay, and to Hugh Frazer's surprise he recognized an old friend of his family, Arthur Reeves. "Whoever would have thought of meeting you in Naples, Hugh?" exclaimed Mr. Reeves genially. "Jump in?your friend too, of course?and tell me as much as you can in less than a minute. My time's precious just now." CONTENTS OFF TO THE SEAT OF WAR UNDER FIRE PRISONERS THE SHEIKH'S SALT THE SANDSTORM THE ESCAPE THE FIGHT IN THE DESERT A DISCOVERY THE MIRAGE CHALLENGED THE MEDIAEVAL CITY SIR JEHAN DE VALX THE MOSLEM HOST THE DASH FOR THE GUN THE STRUGGLE AT THE BREACH SIR JEHAN'S SUCCESSOR THE FLIGHT FROM CROIXILIA REEVES'S RUSE THE PERILS OF THE RIVER RUNNING THE LAST GAUNTLET Illustrations WHY, IT'S THE RIVER!' EXCLAIMED GERALD THE APPROACH OF THE MONOPLANE THE CITY OF CHARLETON THE SECOND GUN TEST A GOOD SHOT   Among the Esquimaux or Adventures under the Arctic Circle by Edward S. Ellis Edward S. Ellis B00J9SQTOA File Size: 647 KB.     BUY NOW Book Description :- FICTION, boys, adventure, Greenland, ship, British America, NAUTILUS TWO PASSENGERS ON THE "NAUTILUS" The good ship "Nautilus" had completed the greater part of her voyage from London to her far-off destination, deep in the recesses of British America. This was York Factory, one of the chief posts of the Hudson Bay Company. Among the numerous streams flowing into Hudson Bay, from the frozen regions of the north, is the Nelson River. Near the mouth of this and of the Hayes River was erected, many years ago, Fort York, or York Factory. The post is not a factory in the ordinary meaning of the word, being simply the headquarters of the factors or dealers in furs for that vast monopoly whose agents have scoured the dismal regions to the north of the Saskatchewan, in the land of Assiniboine, along the mighty Yukon and beyond the Arctic Circle, in quest of the fur-bearing animals, that are found only in their perfection in the coldest portions of the globe. The buildings which form the fort are not attractive, but they are comfortable. They are not specially strong, for, though the structure has stood for a long time in a country which the aborigines make their home, and, though it is far removed from any human assistance, its wooden walls have never been pierced by a hostile bullet, and it is safe to say they never will be. Somehow or other, our brethren across the northern border have learned the art of getting along with the Indians without fighting them. The voyageurs and trappers, returning from their journeys in canoes or on snow-shoes to the very heart of frozen America, first catch sight of the flag floating from the staff of York Factory, and they know that a warm welcome awaits them, because the peltries gathered amid the recesses of the frigid mountains and in the heart of the land of desolation are sure to find ready purchasers at the post, for the precious furs are eagerly sought for in the marts of the Old and of the New World. CONTENTS Two Passengers on the "Nautilus" A Colossal Somersault An Alarming Situation Adrift An Icy Couch Missing A Point of Light Hope Deferred A Startling Occurrence An Ugly Customer Lively Times Fred's Experience The Fog A Collision The Sound of a Voice Land Ho! Docak and His Home A New Expedition A Wonderful Exhibition The Herd of Musk Oxen Close Quarters Fred's Turn In the Cavern Unwelcome Callers The Coming Shadow Walled In "Come On!" A Hopeless Task Ten Miles The Last Pause Another Sound The Wild Men of Greenland Conclusion   American Adventures / A Second Trip 'Abroad at home' by Julian Street : (full image Illustrated) Author: Julian Street, Illustrator: Wallace Morgan B00JDPZ990 File Size: 3086 KB.     BUY NOW Book Description :- American, history, trip, Washington, ARISTOCRACY, POLITICS, DOMINION FOREWORD Though much has been written of the South, it seems to me that this part of our country is less understood than any other part. Certainly the South, itself, feels that this is true. Its relationship to the North makes me think of nothing so much as that of a pretty, sensitive wife, to a big, strong, amiable, if somewhat thick-skinned husband. These two had one great quarrel which nearly resulted in divorce. He thought her headstrong; she thought him overbearing. The quarrel made her ill; she has been for some time recovering. But though they have settled their difficulties and are living again in amity together, and though he, man-like, has half forgotten that they ever quarreled at all, now that peace reigns in the house again, she has not forgotten. There still lingers in her mind the feeling that he never really understood her, that he never understood her problems and her struggles, and that he never will. And it seems to me further that, as is usually the case with wives who consider themselves misunderstood, the fault is partly, but by no means altogether, hers. He, upon one hand, is inclined to pass the matter off with a: "There, there! It's all over now. Just be good and forget it!" while she, in the depths of her heart, retains a little bit of wistfulness, a little wounded feeling, which causes her to say to herself: "Thank God our home was not broken up, but?I wish that he could be a little more considerate, sometimes, in view of all that I have suffered." For my part, I am the humble but devoted friend of the family. Having known him first, having been from boyhood his companion, I may perhaps have sympathized with him in the beginning. But since I have come to know her, too, that is no longer so. And I do think I know her?proud, sensitive, high-strung, generous, captivating beauty that she is! Moreover, after the fashion of many another "friend of the family," I have fallen in love with her. Loving her from afar, I send her as a nosegay these chapters gathered in her own gardens. If some of the flowers are of a kind for which she does not care, if some have thorns, even if some are only weeds, I pray her to remember that from what was growing in her gardens I was forced to make my choice, and to believe that, whatever the defects of my bouquet, it is meant to be a bunch of roses. J. S. October 1, 1917. ON JOURNEYS THROUGH THE STATES On journeys through the States we start, ... We willing learners of all, teachers of all, lovers of all. We dwell a while in every city and town ... ?Walt Whitman. Had my companion and I never crossed the continent together, had we never gone "abroad at home," I might have curbed my impatience at the beginning of our second voyage. But from the time we returned from our first journey, after having spent some months in trying, as some one put it, to "discover America," I felt the gnawings of excited appetite. The vast sweep of the country continually suggested to me some great delectable repast: a banquet spread for a hundred million guests; and having discovered myself unable, in the time first allotted, to devour more than part of it?a strip across the table, as it were, stretching from New York on one side to San Francisco on the other?I have hungered impatiently for more. Indeed, to be quite honest, I should like to try to eat it all. Months before our actual departure for the South the day for leaving was appointed; days before we fixed upon our train; hours before I bought my ticket. And then, when my trunks had left the house, when my taxicab was ordered and my faithful battered suitcase stood packed to bulging in the hall, my companion, the Illustrator, telephoned to say that certain drawings he must finish before leaving were not done, that he would be unable to go with me that afternoon, as planned, but must wait until the midnight train. CONTENTS ON JOURNEYS THROUGH THE STATES A BALTIMORE EVENING WHERE THE CLIMATES MEET TRIUMPHANT DEFEAT TERRAPIN AND THINGS DOUGHOREGAN MANOR AND THE CARROLLS A RARE OLD TOWN WE MEET THE HAMPTON GHOST ARE WE STANDARDIZED? HARPER'S FERRY AND JOHN BROWN THE VIRGINIAS AND THE WASHINGTONS I RIDE A HORSE INTO THE OLD DOMINION CHARLOTTESVILLE AND MONTICELLO THE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA FOX-HUNTING IN VIRGINIA "A CERTAIN PARTY" THE LEGACY OF HATE "YOU-ALL" AND OTHER SECTIONAL MISUNDERSTANDINGS IDIOMS AND ARISTOCRACY THE CONFEDERATE CAPITAL RANDOM RICHMOND NOTES JEDGE CRUTCHFIELD'S COT NORFOLK AND ITS NEIGHBORHOOD COLONEL TAYLOR AND GENERAL LEE RALEIGH AND JOSEPHUS DANIELS ITEMS FROM "THE OLD NORTH STATE" UNDER ST. MICHAEL'S CHIMES HISTORY AND ARISTOCRACY POLITICS, A NEWSPAPER AND ST. CECILIA "GULLA" AND THE BACK COUNTRY OUT OF THE PAST ALIVE ATLANTA GEORGIA JOURNALISM SOME ATLANTA INSTITUTIONS A BIT OF RURAL GEORGIA A YOUNG METROPOLIS BUSY BIRMINGHAM AN ALLEGORY OF ACHIEVEMENT THE ROAD TO ARCADY A MISSISSIPPI TOWN OLD TALES AND A NEW GAME OUT OF THE LONG AGO THE GIRL HE LEFT BEHIND HIM VICKSBURG OLD AND NEW SHREDS AND PATCHES THE BAFFLING MISSISSIPPI OLD RIVER DAYS WHAT MEMPHIS HAS ENDURED MODERN MEMPHIS BEAUTIFUL SAVANNAH MISS "JAX" AND SOME FLORIDA GOSSIP PASSIONATE PALM BEACH ASSORTED AND RESORTED FLORIDA A DAY IN MONTGOMERY THE CITY OF THE CREOLE HISTORY, THE CREOLE, AND HIS DUELS FROM ANTIQUES TO PIRATES ANTOINE'S AND MARDI GRAS FINALE   Adventures on the Roof of the World by Mrs. Aubrey Le Blond Mrs. Aubrey Le Blond B00E6XLITY File Size: 5226 KB.     BUY NOW Book Description :- TALES, ALPINE, Adventure, ICE-SLOPE, CLIMB, THUNDERSTORMS, ALPS ?DEAR HEART,? said Tommy, when Mr Barlow had finished his narrative, ?what a number of accidents people are subject to in this world!? ?It is very true,? answered Mr Barlow, ?but as that is the case, it is necessary to improve ourselves in every possible manner, so that we may be able to struggle against them.? Thus quoted, from Sandford and Merton, a president of the Alpine Club. The following True Tales from the Hills, if they serve to emphasise not only the perils of mountaineering but the means by which they can be lessened, will have accomplished the aim of their editor. This book is not intended for the climber. To him most of the tales will be familiar in the volumes on the shelves of his library or on the lips of his companions during restful hours in the Alps. But the non-climber rarely sees The Alpine Journal and the less popular books on mountaineering, nor would he probably care to search in their pages for narratives likely to interest him. To seek out tales of adventure easily intelligible to the non-climber, to edit them in popular form, to point out the lessons which most adventures can teach to those who may climb themselves one day, has occupied many pleasant hours, rendered doubly so by the feeling that I shall again come into touch with the readers who gave so kindly a greeting to my True Tales of Mountain Adventure. In that work I tried to explain the principles of mountaineering and something of the nature of glaciers and avalanches. Those chapters will, I think, be found helpful by non-climbers who read the present volume. For much kindly advice and help in compiling this work I am indebted to Mr Henry Mayhew, of the British Museum, and to Mr Clinton Dent. Mrs Maund has enabled me to quote from a striking article by her late husband. Sir W. Martin Conway, Sir H. Seymour King, Messrs Tuckett, G. E. Foster, Cecil Slingsby, Harold Spender, and Edward Fitzgerald have been good enough to allow me to make long extracts from their writings. Messrs Newnes have generously permitted me to quote from articles which appeared in their publications, and the editor of The Cornhill has sanctioned my reprinting portions of a paper from his magazine. I am also indebted to the editor of M?Clure?s Magazine for a similar courtesy. Mons. A. Campagne, Inspector of Water and Forests (France), allows me to make use of two very interesting photographs from his work on the Valley of Barège. Several friends have lent me photographs for reproduction in this work, and their names appear under each of the illustrations I owe to them. Messrs Spooner have kindly allowed me to use several by the late Mr W. F. Donkin. When not otherwise stated, the photographs are from my own negatives. I take this opportunity of heartily thanking those climbers, some of them personally unknown to me, whose assistance has rendered this work possible. E. LE BLOND. 67 The Drive, BRIGHTON, December 1903. CONTENTS SOME TALES OF ALPINE GUIDES TWO DAYS ON AN ICE-SLOPE SOME AVALANCHE ADVENTURES A MONTH BENEATH AN AVALANCHE A MONTH BENEATH AN AVALANCHE (continued) AN EXCITING CAUCASIAN ASCENT A MELANCHOLY QUEST SOME NARROW ESCAPES AND FATAL ACCIDENTS A NIGHT ADVENTURE ON THE DENT BLANCHE ALONE ON THE DENT BLANCHE A STIRRING DAY ON THE ROSETTA THE ZINAL ROTHHORN TWICE IN ONE DAY BENIGHTED ON A SNOW PEAK THE STORY OF A BIG JUMP A PERILOUS FIRST ASCENT THUNDERSTORMS IN THE ALPS LANDSLIPS IN THE MOUNTAINS SOME TERRIBLE EXPERIENCES FALLING STONES AND FALLING BODIES LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS The last bivouac of Messrs Donkin and Fox in the Caucasus Christian Almer, Joseph Imboden, Jean Antoine Carrel, Alexander Burgener The last steep bit near the top?At the end of a hot day?An instant?s halt to choose the best way up a steep wall of rock?The ice-axes are stowed away in a crack, to be brought up by the last man Auguste Gentinetta?Auguste Gentinetta on the way to the Matterhorn?The beginning of the climb up the Matterhorn?The spot where was the bergschrund into which Mr Sloggett?s party fell Auguste Gentinetta on a mountain-top?The ice-cliffs over which Mr Sloggett?s party would have fallen had they not been dashed into the bergschrund?The ruined chapel by the Schwarzsee?The last resting-place at Zermatt of some English climbers On a snow ridge?A halt for lunch above the snow-line?Mrs Aubrey Le Blond A cutting through an avalanche?The remains of an avalanche?An avalanche of stones?A mountain chapel A mountain path?Peasants of the mountains?A village buried beneath an avalanche?Terraces planted to prevent avalanches A typical Caucasian landscape   [Prev] 1 ... 1 2 3 ... 3 [Next]