Added by: Kahena | Karma: 11524.33 | Kids, Fiction literature | 5 November 2010
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A Canyon Voyage
This is a novel about the outstanding adventures which take place in the canyons of the Colorado River and is intended for everyone who is fond of the adventures in the West which are described with a good sense of humor, also containing a number of great original photographs. The author of the book has created it basing on his own experience. When Frederick Dellaenbaugh was young, he traveled with John Wesley Powell to the Colorado River with the aim of exploration and research.
Added by: Kahena | Karma: 11524.33 | Kids, Fiction literature | 5 November 2010
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A Campfire Girl's Test of Friendship
The Camp Fire Girls books is a series of fiction novels written for children by various authors from 1912 into the 1930s. Jane Stewart created the first set of Campfire Girls, which began with A Campfire Girl's First Council Fire. The Girls were best friends Bessie and Zara, and they belonged to the campfire girls (a version of the Girl Scouts). Among their adventures were interacting with the Romany, foiling kidnapers, beating the boys at sports, showing up snooty city girls, and saving Zara's father from a counterfeiting charge.
Added by: Kahena | Karma: 11524.33 | Kids, Fiction literature | 5 November 2010
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A Boys Voyage Round the World
I have had pleasure in editing this little book, not only because it is the work of my youngest son, but also because it contains the results of a good deal of experience of life under novel aspects, as seen by young, fresh, and observant eyes. How the book came to be written is as follows: The boy, whose two years' narrative forms the subject of these pages, was at the age of sixteen seized with inflammation of the lungs, from which he was recovering so slowly and unsatisfactorily, that I was advised by London physicians to take him from the business he was then learning in Yorkshire, and send him on a long sea voyage.
Added by: Kahena | Karma: 11524.33 | Kids, Fiction literature | 5 November 2010
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A Campfire Girl's First Council Fire
The Camp Fire Girls books is a series of fiction novels written for children by various authors from 1912 into the 1930s. Jane Stewart created the first set of Campfire Girls, which began with A Campfire Girl's First Council Fire. The Girls were best friends Bessie and Zara, and they belonged to the campfire girls (a version of the Girl Scouts). Among their adventures were interacting with the Romany, foiling kidnapers, beating the boys at sports, showing up snooty city girls, and saving Zara's father from a counterfeiting charge.
Added by: Kahena | Karma: 11524.33 | Fiction literature | 5 November 2010
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Lord Jim
A classic of early literary modernism, Lord Jim tells the story of a young “simple and sensitive character” who loses his honor in a display of cowardice at sea — and of his expiation of that sin against his own “shadowy ideal of conduct” on the remote island of Patusan. The novel, written by Conrad for magazine serialization during an intense and chaotic ten months in 1899 and 1900, has, in the words of Thomas C. Moser, “the rare distinction of being a masterpiece in two separate genres.