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The Great Gold Rush is a classic fiction tale of the Klondike Gold Rush, based on true stories.

Originally published in 1905, A Little Boy Lost is the delightful story of Martin, a seven-year old boy who each day wanders a little farther from his home until he comes to a land of talking animals, gnomes, and people made of mist.

The story opens with a couple of school-leavers discussing what they will do with their lives. One of the boys, a Gilpin, whose father is a hard-working farmer, is determined to go along the same route, but in Australia, as he and his brother have often dreamt of doing. They reach Australia, and an...

BEYOND the fact that he was born on the 12th day of February, 1809, in Hardin county, Kentucky, Mr. Lincoln usually had but little to say of himself, the lives of his parents, or the history of the family before their removal to Indiana. If he mentioned the subject at all, it was with great reluctance...

The romance and lawlessness of nineteenth-century Uruguay come alive in this exuberant, comic tale. Englishman Richard Lamb elopes with an Argentinean woman—making an enemy of her father. The rest of the story follows his attempt to seek his fortune in the country’s jungle interior, the dangerous situations he encounters, and the revenge his bride’s father eventually extracts.

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

The present work, it is hoped, will supply a want long felt in the literature of the Catacombs. That literature, it is true, is very voluminous; but it is for the most part locked up in rare and costly folios in foreign languages, and inaccessible to the general reader. Recent discoveries have refuted...

Classic, action packed sea adventure for younger readers.

This is not a long book, but is very much in the Kingston style, that is, the style he employs when writing about land-based adventures, as opposed to sea-based ones. It is quite difficult to follow who is who in this story, and why they are doing what they do. I suggest that you use a pen and paper...

A man has many choices as to what to do with his life, and decides on adventure on the open seas. Thrilling nautical tale.

Not a very long book. Though technically well-written it is a bit annoying as it contains several passages of ranting against the behaviour of the Catholics. No doubt this was justified at the time, but in this day and age it is a bit out of place to be reminded of it. According to Wikipedia: "William...