Peter Parley's Tales About America and Australia

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Author

Goodrich, Samuel G. (Samuel Griswold), 1793-1860

Credits

E-text prepared by Robert Cicconetti, Janet Blenkinship, and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team ( www.pgdp.net) from images generously made available by the University of Florida and the Internet Archive/Children's Library

Language

English

LoC Class

PZ: Language and Literatures: Juvenile belles lettres

Subject

Australia -- History -- Juvenile literature

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Text

eBook-No.

16891

Project Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/16891

Release Date

October 17, 2005

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.E-text prepared by Robert Cicconetti, Janet Blenkinship, and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team (https://www.pgdp.net) from images generously made available by the University of Florida and the Internet Archive/Children's Library — TALES — ABOUT — AMERICA AND AUSTRALIA. — BY
2. 2.PETER PARLEY. — A New Edition, — BROUGHT DOWN TO THE PRESENT TIME. — REVISED BY — THE REV. T. WILSON. — WITH ILLUSTRATIONS BY S. WILLIAMS. — CONTENTS.
3. 3.CHAPTER I. — PARLEY TELLS HOW AMERICA WAS FIRST DISCOVERED, AND ABOUT COLUMBUS THE DISCOVERER.
4. 4.CHAPTER II. — PARLEY DESCRIBES THE INHABITANTS.
5. 5.CHAPTER III. — COLUMBUS SETS SAIL TO RETURN TO SPAIN, AND ENCOUNTERS A DREADFUL STORM.
6. 6.CHAPTER IV. — COLUMBUS PREPARES FOR ANOTHER VOYAGE.
7. 7.CHAPTER V. — PARLEY TELLS HOW COLUMBUS DISCOVERS THE CONTINENT OF AMERICA.
8. 8.CHAPTER VI. — PARLEY TELLS HOW COLUMBUS WAS ROBBED OF THE HONOUR OF GIVING HIS NAME TO AMERICA.
9. 9.CHAPTER VII. — PARLEY TELLS HOW COLUMBUS WAS SHIPWRECKED, AND ALSO OF THE MANNER OF HIS DEATH.
10. 10.CHAPTER VIII. — PARLEY TELLS OF OVANDO'S CRUEL TREATMENT OF ANACAONA, THE PRINCESS OF HAYTI.
11. 11.CHAPTER IX. — PARLEY DESCRIBES THE TREES, PLANTS, AND FLOWERS OF THE NEW WORLD.
12. 12.CHAPTER X. — PARLEY TELLS OF THE CONQUEST OF MEXICO.
13. 13.CHAPTER XI. — PARLEY RELATES HOW PIZARRO DISCOVERED AND CONQUERED PERU.
14. 14.CHAPTER XII. — PARLEY DESCRIBES THE NATURAL BEAUTIES OF AMERICA.
15. 15.CHAPTER XIII. — PARLEY TELLS OF THE FIRST ENGLISH COLONY IN AMERICA.
16. 16.CHAPTER XIV. — PARLEY TELLS OF THE ORIGINAL NATIVE AMERICANS.
17. 17.CHAPTER XV. — PARLEY TELLS ABOUT THE UNITED STATES.
18. 18.AUSTRALIA. — CHAPTER XVI. — PARLEY TELLS ABOUT NEW SOUTH WALES.
19. 19.CHAPTER XVII. — PARLEY DESCRIBES THE INHABITANTS, VEGETABLES, AND ANIMALS OF AUSTRALIA—THE BRITISH SETTLEMENTS—THE GOLD REGIONS—RECENT EXPLORATIONS
20. 20.CONCLUSION. — THE END.

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