Aimard Gustave: 318 books

Although the town of San Miguel de Tucuman is not very ancient, and its construction dates scarcely two centuries back, nevertheless—thanks, perhaps, to the calm and studious population which inhabit it—it has a certain middle age odour which is profusely exhaled from the old cloisters of its convents,...

Colonel Melendez, after leaving the Jaguar, galloped with his head afire, and panting chest, along the Galveston road, exciting with his spurs the ardour of his horse, which yet seemed to devour space, so rapid was its speed. But it is a long journey from the Salto del Frayle to the town. While galloping,...

Although the Seine, from Chanceaux, its fountainhead, to Havre, where it falls into the sea, is not more than four hundred miles in length, still, in spite of this comparatively limited course, this river is one of the most important in the world; for, from the days of Cæsar up to the present, it has...

In the year 1783, Western New York—or at least what was then deemed Western New York—was an almost unbroken wilderness, scarcely known to the inhabitants of the eastern and south-eastern portions of the State; although the greater part of that large tract of territory then known as Tryon County,...

No country in the world offers to the delighted traveller more charming landscapes than Mexico; among them all, that of Las Cumbres or the peak, is, without fear of contradiction, one of the most striking and most agreeably diversified. Las Cumbres form a succession of defiles in the mountains, through...

America, a land not yet thoroughly explored, and whose immense savannahs and gloomy virgin forests conceal so many mysterious secrets and unknown dramas, sees at this moment all eyes fixed upon her, for everyone is eager to know the strange customs of the semi-civilized Indians and the semi-savage Europeans...

Excerpt: The immense virgin forests which once covered the soil of North America are more and more disappearing before the busy axes of the squatters and pioneers, whose insatiable activity removes the desert frontier further and further to the west. Flourishing towns, well tilled and carefully-sown...

Extrait du livre : Les nombreuses superstitions qui régnaient dans la Nouvelle-Angleterre, avant la guerre de l’indépendance, ont survécu dans beaucoup de contrées. Malgré le progrès de la civilisation, elles maintiennent leur empire sur l’inculte...

A thrilling tale of Native Americans, trail hunters on the open prairie and through the mountains. Complex, exciting tale of settlers and pioneers and their interactions with the Indians.

Extrait : Depuis que les Américains des États-Unis ont révélé au monde, en s'emparant de la moitié du Mexique, où tend leur ambition, les habitants de ce beau pays sont un peu sortis de la torpeur dans laquelle ils se complaisaient et ont tenté de grands efforts pour coloniser leurs provinces...

Excerpt: All the wood rangers have noticed, with reference to the immense virgin forests which still cover a considerable extent of the soil of the New World, that, to the man who attempts to penetrate into one of these mysterious retreats which the hand of man has not yet deformed, and which preserve...

Excerpt: On July 2nd, 18—, about four in the afternoon, at the moment when the sun, already low on the horizon, only shed its beams obliquely on the earth, calcined by the heat of the mediodía, and when the rising breeze was beginning to refresh the parching atmosphere, two horsemen, well mounted,...

Les immenses forêts vierges qui couvraient le sol de l'Amérique septentrionale tendent de plus en plus à disparaître sous les coups pressés des haches des squatters et des pionniers américains dont l'insatiable activité recule de plus en plus vers l'ouest les bornes des déserts.

Extrait : La Puerta del Sol, depuis un temps immémorial rendez-vous ordinaire des oisifs et des nouvellistes de Madrid, était, à l’époque où se passe cette histoire, un carrefour étroit, boueux, situé presque au centre de la ville et...