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Popular Adventure Tales
This work encompasses various tales that include themes of exploration and survival, primarily focused on the experiences of young adventurers in the wilderness.
"Popular Adventure Tales" by Captain Mayne Reid is a collection of adventure stories. This work encompasses various tales that include themes of exploration and survival, primarily focused on the experiences of young adventurers in the wilderness.
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Boy reader, you have heard of the Hudson's Bay Company? Ten to one you have worn a piece of fur which it has provided for you; if not, your pretty little sister has—in her muff, or her boa, or as a trimming for her winter dress. Would you like to know something of the country whence come these furs?—of the animals whose backs have been stripped to obtain them? As I feel certain that you and I are old friends, I make bold to answer for you—yes. Come, then! let us journey together to the “Fur Countries;” let us cross them from south to north.
A vast journey it will be. It will cost us many thousand miles of travel. We shall find neither railway-train, nor steamboat, nor stagecoach, to carry us on our way. We shall not even have the help of a horse. For us no hotel shall spread its luxurious board; no road-side inn shall hang out its inviting sign and “clean beds;” no roof of any kind shall offer us its hospitable shelter. Our table shall be a rock, a log, or the earth itself; our lodging a tent; and our bed the skin of a wild beast. Such are the best accommodations we can expect upon our journey. Are you still ready to undertake it? Does the prospect not deter you?
No—I hear you exclaim—I shall be satisfied with the table—what care I for mahogany? With the lodging—I can tent like an Arab. With the bed—fling feathers to the wind!
Contents
- 01Chapter I
- 02Chapter II
- 03Chapter III
- 04Chapter IV
- 05Chapter V
- 06Chapter VI
- 07Chapter VII
- 08Chapter VIII.
- 09Chapter IX.
- 10Chapter X.
- 11Chapter XI.
- 12Chapter XII
- 13Chapter XIII
- 14Chapter XIV.
- 15Chapter XV.
- 16Chapter XVI.
- 17Chapter XVII.
- 18Chapter XVIII.
- 19Chapter XIX.
- 20Chapter XX.
- 21Chapter XXI.
- 22Chapter, XXII.
- 23Chapter XXIII.
- 24Chapter XXIV.
- 25Chapter XXV.
- 26Chapter XXVI.
- 27Chapter XXVII.
- 28Chapter XXVIII
- 29Chapter XXIX.
- 30Chapter XXX.
- 31Chapter XXXI.
- 32Chapter XXXII.
- 33Chapter XXXIII.
- 34Chapter XXXIV.
- 35Chapter XXXV.
- 36Chapter XXXVI.
- 37Chapter XXXVII.
- 38Chapter I.
- 39Chapter II.
- 40Chapter III.
- 41Chapter IV.
- 42Chapter V.
- 43Chapter VI.
- 44Chapter VII.
- 45Chapter VIII.
- 46Chapter IX.
- 47Chapter X.
- 48Chapter XI.
- 49Chapter XII.
- 50Chapter XIII.
- 51Chapter XIV.
- 52Chapter XV.
- 53Chapter XVI.
- 54Chapter XVII.
- 55Chapter XVIII.
- 56Chapter XIX.
- 57Chapter XX.
- 58Chapter XXI.
- 59Chapter XXII.
- 60Chapter XXIII.
About this edition
- Author
- Mayne Reid
- Language
- English
- Era
- Modern (c. 1800–1945)
- Reading level
- Intermediate: some philosophy helps
- Formats
- EPUB, PDF
- Length
- 652 pages
- This edition
- Modern Philosophers
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