Author: Oliver Optic
Publisher: Read Books Ltd
ISBN: 1473365392
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
Contained in this volume is a fascinating story of travel and adventure, written by the esteemed academic William Taylor Adams. The fourth in the "Young America Abroad" series, this text is a continuation of the history of the Academy Ship and her consort in the waters of Holland and Belgium. This book was written for young people in the hope that they will take a keen interest in the regions visited in this book and that they will find this volume as attractive as the story books of the day; great care has been taken to make the historical content factual and reliable, making it as educational as it is entertaining and the perfect book to inspire young minds of worldly adventure. William Taylor Adams was an author, academic, and a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives. Originally published in 1874, this rare book is republished here with a new prefatory biography of the author.
Dikes and Ditches; Or, Young America in Holland and Belgium - A Story of Travel and Adventure
Author: Oliver Optic
Publisher: Read Books Ltd
ISBN: 1473365392
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
Contained in this volume is a fascinating story of travel and adventure, written by the esteemed academic William Taylor Adams. The fourth in the "Young America Abroad" series, this text is a continuation of the history of the Academy Ship and her consort in the waters of Holland and Belgium. This book was written for young people in the hope that they will take a keen interest in the regions visited in this book and that they will find this volume as attractive as the story books of the day; great care has been taken to make the historical content factual and reliable, making it as educational as it is entertaining and the perfect book to inspire young minds of worldly adventure. William Taylor Adams was an author, academic, and a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives. Originally published in 1874, this rare book is republished here with a new prefatory biography of the author.
Publisher: Read Books Ltd
ISBN: 1473365392
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
Contained in this volume is a fascinating story of travel and adventure, written by the esteemed academic William Taylor Adams. The fourth in the "Young America Abroad" series, this text is a continuation of the history of the Academy Ship and her consort in the waters of Holland and Belgium. This book was written for young people in the hope that they will take a keen interest in the regions visited in this book and that they will find this volume as attractive as the story books of the day; great care has been taken to make the historical content factual and reliable, making it as educational as it is entertaining and the perfect book to inspire young minds of worldly adventure. William Taylor Adams was an author, academic, and a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives. Originally published in 1874, this rare book is republished here with a new prefatory biography of the author.
Dikes and Ditches, Or, Young America in Holland and Belgium
Author: Oliver Optic
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Adventure stories
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Adventure stories
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
Dikes and Ditches
Author: Oliver Optic
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Adventure stories
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Adventure stories
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
Dikes and Ditches, Or, Young America in Holland and Belgium
Author: Oliver Optic
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 346
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 346
Book Description
Dikes and Ditches
Author: Oliver Optic
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3368828118
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 361
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1874.
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3368828118
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 361
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1874.
Bulletin of the Toronto Public Library
Author: Toronto Public Library
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Catalogs, Classified (Dewey decimal)
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Catalogs, Classified (Dewey decimal)
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
Bulletin of the Toronto Public Library
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Classified catalogs (Dewey decimal)
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Classified catalogs (Dewey decimal)
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
Dikes and Ditches, Or Young America in Holland and Belgium
Author: Oliver Optic
Publisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9781440075643
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
Excerpt from Dikes and Ditches, or Young America in Holland and Belgium: A Story of Travel and Adventure Dikes and ditches has its independent story Of the ad ventures Of the students. Though the Academy Squadron has thus far been remarkably fortunate in the character Of its instructors, Professor Hamblin proves to be an exception, and the crews Of the ship and her consort are unhappily plunged into sundry disciplinary tribulations by his over strained dignity, and by his want Of discretion. The young commander Of the Josephine suffers from the evils Ofa divided authority, Which brings him into conflict with the senior in structor before experience suggests the remedy. While the principal is compelled to punish the students for their mis conduct in hazing the Obnoxious professor, he also finds it necessary to abate the nuisance Of a conceited, overbearing, and tyrannical pedagogue. Boys cannot be expected to be angels in school, until their instructors have soared to this sublime height. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Publisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9781440075643
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
Excerpt from Dikes and Ditches, or Young America in Holland and Belgium: A Story of Travel and Adventure Dikes and ditches has its independent story Of the ad ventures Of the students. Though the Academy Squadron has thus far been remarkably fortunate in the character Of its instructors, Professor Hamblin proves to be an exception, and the crews Of the ship and her consort are unhappily plunged into sundry disciplinary tribulations by his over strained dignity, and by his want Of discretion. The young commander Of the Josephine suffers from the evils Ofa divided authority, Which brings him into conflict with the senior in structor before experience suggests the remedy. While the principal is compelled to punish the students for their mis conduct in hazing the Obnoxious professor, he also finds it necessary to abate the nuisance Of a conceited, overbearing, and tyrannical pedagogue. Boys cannot be expected to be angels in school, until their instructors have soared to this sublime height. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Palace and Cottage; Or, Young America in France and Switzerland
Author: Oliver Optic
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
Catalogue of Books Added to the Library of Congress
Author: Library of Congress
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description