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The Land of Fire: A Tale of Adventure
The story follows a young farm-boy named Henry Chester who longs for adventure and leaves his rural life behind to seek a new future at sea.
"The Land of Fire: A Tale of Adventure" by Captain Mayne Reid is a novel. The story follows a young farm-boy named Henry Chester who longs for adventure and leaves his rural life behind to seek a new future at sea.
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One of the most interesting of English highways is the old coach road from London to Portsmouth. Its interest is in part due to the charming scenery through which it runs, but as much to memories of a bygone time. One travelling this road at the present day might well deem it lonely, as there will be met on it only the liveried equipage of some local magnate, the more unpretentious turn-out of country doctor or parson, with here and there a lumbering farm waggon, or the farmer himself in his smart two-wheeled “trap,” on the way to a neighbouring market.
How different it was half a century ago, when along this same highway fifty four-horse stages were “tooled” to and fro from England’s metropolis to her chief seaport town, top-heavy with fares—often a noisy crowd of jovial Jack tars, just off a cruise and making Londonward, or with faces set for Portsmouth, once more to breast the billows and brave the dangers of the deep! Many a naval officer of name and fame historic, such as the Rodneys, Cochranes, Collingwoods, and Codringtons,—even Nile’s hero himself,—has been whirled along this old highway.
Contents
- 01Preface.
- 02Chapter One.
- 03“The Sea! The Sea! The Open Sea!”
- 04Chapter Two.
- 05The Star-Spangled Banner.
- 06Chapter Three.
- 07Portsmouth Mud-Larks.
- 08Chapter Four.
- 09Off the “Furies.”
- 10Chapter Five.
- 11The Castaways.
- 12Chapter Six.
- 13A Battle with Birds.
- 14Chapter Seven.
- 15A World on a Weed.
- 16Chapter Eight.
- 17A Flurry with Fur-Seals.
- 18Chapter Nine.
- 19An Unnatural Mother.
- 20Chapter Ten.
- 21Saved by a Williwaw.
- 22Chapter Eleven.
- 23Why “Land of Fire.”
- 24Chapter Twelve.
- 25A Catastrophe Not Anticipated.
- 26Chapter Thirteen.
- 27A Change of Quarters determined on.
- 28Chapter Fourteen.
- 29A Fuegian Fish-Hunt.
- 30Chapter Fifteen.
- 31A Rough Overland Route.
- 32Chapter Sixteen.
- 33By the “Kitchen Midden.”
- 34Chapter Seventeen.
- 35Unwelcome Visitors.
- 36Chapter Eighteen.
- 37Fuegian Food-Providing.
- 38Chapter Nineteen.
- 39An Odd Renewal of Acquaintance.
- 40Chapter Twenty.
- 41Gone back to Barbarism.
- 42Chapter Twenty One.
- 43Boat Ahoy!
- 44Chapter Twenty Two.
- 45Tekeneeka Hospitality.
- 46Chapter Twenty Three.
- 47The Dreaded Oensmen.
About this edition
- Author
- Mayne Reid
- Language
- English
- Era
- Modern (c. 1800–1945)
- Reading level
- Intermediate: some philosophy helps
- Formats
- EPUB, PDF
- Length
- 180 pages
- This edition
- Modern Philosophers
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