Memoirs of Jacques Casanova Memoirs of Jacques Casanova (1929 PDF) Madeleine Boyd’s 1929 edition of The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova is an English translation and abridgment of Casanova’s famous autobiography, Histoire de ma vie. Casanova (1725–1798…
A High Wind In Jamaica by Richard Hughes A High Wind in Jamaica is a 1929 novel by the Welsh writer Richard Hughes, Richard Hughes’s A High Wind in Jamaica (1929) is a dark, unsettling novel about English children caught by pirates after a hurricane…
Famous Stories Of The Sea And Ships from The introduction: It is not surprising that island people, like the British, should be interested in ships and the oceans through which they sail. Indeed, this interest is shared by all English-speaking count…
Man-Eaters of Kumaon Man-Eaters of Kumaon (1944) by Jim Corbett Introduction by Linlithgow: These jungle stories by Jim Corbett merit as much popularity and as wide a circulation as Rudyard Kipling's Jungle Books. Kipling's Jungle Books …
The pirate city: an algerine tale by R.M. Ballantyne In. this book I have attempted to present an accurate picture of life and events in the Pirate City of Algiers, as exhibited about the first quarter of the present century. Without claiming to be …
The adventures of Hajjî Baba of Ispahan From the biographical introduction: The beginning of this book) as the engraved copper plate, worn by long use, continues to repeat its first impression. Parts of the picture have from much use become indisti…
The adventures of Don Sylvio de Rosalva From the translator's introduction: Wieland belongs to that inferior order of genius that brings no creative energy, no epoch-making ideas to bear upon human hfe and thought, but receives the impress of t…
The personal history of David Copperfield illustrated by Frank Reynolds The story follows the life of David Copperfield from childhood to maturity. David was born in Blunderstone, Suffolk, England, six months after the death of his father. Review by…
Treasure Island Plot Summary: After his mother finds a treasure map among the possessions of a deceased guest at her inn, Jim Hawkins manages to outwit crafty and cruel pirates to learn the location of the buried treasure. From Introduction: It wa…
The haunted bookshop by Christophe Morley The Haunted Bookshop is not a novel of the supernatural. Rather, the name refers to the ghosts of the past that haunt all libraries and bookstores: "the ghosts of all great literature." Throughout…
The voyages of Pedro Fernandez de Quiros Volume 1 The present volume commences with the first part of the History of the Discovery of the Austria Regions. It describes the second voyage of Mendana in much detail, including the discovery of the Marqu…
From Franklin to Nansen, tales of Arctic adventure, retold While stories of the Arctic explorers and their efforts to reach the North Pole have been told, again and again, the constant renewal of expeditions adds every year fresh incidents to the r…
Around the world on a bicycle This book is real and the author is very funny, if you have a bad mood, Read some. This bold youth simply went around the globe to see the people who were on it; and since he always had something to show them as intere…
Adventure in the Night, PDF Novel (1924) by Warrington Dawson “ A strange adventure . . . the sunset of one day ringing up the curtain, and the sunrise of the next bringing it down again. "Francis Warrington Dawson was born in London, England o…
Kon Tiki The Secret of Easter Island The Kon-Tiki Expedition: By Raft Across the South Seas is a 1948 book by the Norwegian writer Thor Heyerdahl. It recounts Heyerdahl's experiences with the Kon-Tiki expedition, where he traveled across the Pa…
Download Finished by H. Rider Haggard Adventure Novel PDF book "Finished" comprises the third book in H. Rider Haggard's so-called Zulu trilogy, the first two novels being "Marie" and "Child of Storm." This is a ma…
