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The Desert Home
The book chronicles the journey of a group of settlers traversing the Great American Desert, illustrating their challenges and encounters in the untamed wilderness.
"The Desert Home: The Adventures of a Lost Family in the Wilderness" by Captain Mayne Reid is a novel. The book chronicles the journey of a group of settlers traversing the Great American Desert, illustrating their challenges and encounters in the untamed wilderness.
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There is a great desert in the interior of North America. It is almost as large as the famous Saära of Africa. It is fifteen hundred miles long, and a thousand wide. Now, if it were of a regular shape—that is to say, a parallelogram—you could at once compute its area, by multiplying the length upon the breadth; and you would obtain one million and a half for the result—one million and a half of square miles. But its outlines are as yet very imperfectly known; and although it is fully fifteen hundred miles long, and in some places a thousand in breadth, its surface-extent is probably not over one million of square miles, or twenty-five times the size of England. Fancy a desert twenty-five times as big as all England! Do you not think that it has received a most appropriate name when it is called the Great American Desert?
Contents
- 01Chapter Two.
- 02Chapter Three.
- 03Chapter Four.
- 04Chapter Five.
- 05Chapter Six.
- 06Chapter Seven.
- 07Chapter Eight.
- 08Chapter Nine.
- 09Chapter Ten.
- 10Chapter Eleven.
- 11Chapter Twelve.
- 12Chapter Thirteen.
- 13Chapter Fourteen.
- 14Chapter Fifteen.
- 15Chapter Sixteen.
- 16Chapter Seventeen.
- 17Chapter Eighteen.
- 18Chapter Nineteen.
- 19Chapter Twenty.
- 20Chapter Twenty One.
- 21Chapter Twenty Two.
- 22Chapter Twenty Three.
- 23Chapter Twenty Four.
- 24Chapter Twenty Five.
- 25Chapter Twenty Six.
- 26Chapter Twenty Seven.
- 27Chapter Twenty Eight.
- 28Chapter Twenty Nine.
- 29Chapter Thirty.
- 30Chapter Thirty One.
- 31Chapter Thirty Two.
- 32Chapter Thirty Three.
- 33Chapter Thirty Four.
- 34Chapter Thirty Five.
- 35Chapter Thirty Six.
- 36Chapter Thirty Seven.
- 37Chapter Thirty Eight.
- 38Chapter Thirty Nine.
- 39Chapter Forty.
- 40Chapter Forty One.
- 41Chapter Forty Two.
- 42Chapter Forty Three.
- 43Chapter Forty Four.
About this edition
- Author
- Mayne Reid
- Language
- English
- Era
- Modern (c. 1800–1945)
- Reading level
- Intermediate: some philosophy helps
- Formats
- EPUB, PDF
- Length
- 340 pages
- This edition
- Modern Philosophers
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