Author: Robert Louis Stevenson
Publisher: Birlinn
ISBN: 0857907085
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 562
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Book Description
In "Kidnapped" (1886) and later fiction such as "The Master of Ballantrae" (1888), Stevenson examined some of the extreme and contrary currents of Scotland's past, often projecting a dualism of both personality and belief. This dualism is most famous in "Kidnapped", whose two central characters are David Balfour, a Lowland Whig, and Alan Breck Stewart, a Highland Jacobite. The novel revolves around their friendship and their differences, suggesting a metaphor for Scotland itself. Stevenson wrote the sequel "Catriona" with the title David Balfour, but during serialisation in England the public became confused, thinking it might be a reprint of "Kidnapped". At publisher Cassell's request, the title was changed to "Catriona", after Balfour's daughter.
Author: Jack London
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780945260288
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 144
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The adventures of an unusual dog, part St. Bernard, part Scotch shepherd, that is forcibly taken to the Klondike gold fields where he eventually becomes the leader of a wolf pack. . -- Calm, stoic captain Mac Whirr has just been given command of a new steamship, the Nan-Shan. He and his crew are transporting Asian workers across the China Sea when a sudden drop in atmospheric pressure alerts Mac Whirr of, "some uncommonly dirty weather knocking about."
Author: Jules Verne
Publisher: Choice Pub
ISBN: 9780945260295
Category : Condensed books
Languages : en
Pages : 176
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A condensation of the nineteenth-century tale of an electric submarine, its eccentric captain, and the undersea world, which anticipated many of the scientific achievements of the twentieth century.
Author: Cecil Scott Forester
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 716
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Author: Richard Powell
Publisher: Bantam Books
ISBN:
Category : Don Quixote (Fictitious character)
Languages : en
Pages : 296
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Insignificant Peace Corps man, sent to promote banana culture on a Caribbean island, rises to great heights of public favor despite being trapped between two conflicting factions.
Author: Dinosaur Train
Publisher: Studio Fun International
ISBN: 9780794424695
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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More than 45 flap surprises and a fun early learning activity for each spread combine to make this Dinosaur Train flap book entertaining and educational! The Nature Trackers are always on the lookout for interesting things to discover all around them. Kids will love tagging along for adventures as Buddy, Tiny, Don, and Shiny check out a cave filled with colorful gems, watch baby dinosaurs hatch from eggs, and more. Fun learning activities throughout reinforce early learning concepts like colors, action words, counting, matching, and opposites.
Author: Helen Hoover
Publisher: Knopf
ISBN: 0307831353
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 208
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In the farthest wilds of northeastern Minnesota, back in the Gunflint Range, the author of this book and her artist-husband have a two-room cabin home in the bush country. Beginning one Christmas Day when they first watched the starving deer they later named Peter, the Hoovers had many opportunities, a passionate inclination, and the nature skills to observe this whitetail buck—joined later by his mate, and finally by several of their offspring—through the changing seasons of four years. Close as their relationship was to the generations of beautiful animals, the Hoovers did not consider them pets but fellow inhabitants of that wild country. Their observations reveal the rewards of living close to wild creatures; but more than that, they add valuable information to our knowledge of the cycle of life of the deer and other creatures native to the same world. For although the deer are the chief characters of this book, they are by no means the only wild creatures Mrs. Hoover writes of. Her naturalist’s eye is just as sharp and her affection just as great for the antics of a curious chickadee or a flying squirrel. Mrs. Hoover’s identification with nature knows no favoritism. The Hoovers’ world—the bush country of the United States-Canadian border—is farther removed from civilization than “Mr. Emerson’s woodlot,” but the close relationship of The Gift of the Deer to Walden is evident for all to enjoy. Adrian Hoover’s drawings are from life, and they add another level of understanding to his wife’s vivid prose.
Author: Fletcher Knebel
Publisher: Bantam books
ISBN:
Category : Detective and mystery stories
Languages : en
Pages : 392
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Author: Edgar Allan Poe
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780945260240
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 168
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A collection of critical essays on Poe's tales of horror arranged in chronological order of publication.
Author: Fritz Kredel
Publisher: Reader's Digest Association (Canada)
ISBN: 9780895770783
Category : Fairy tales
Languages : en
Pages : 832
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Book Description
A collection of sixty-nine well-known fairy tales from around the world, translated and gathered by recognized contributors to the field of folklore.
