Stories of adventure

About this eBook

Author

Hale, Edward Everett, 1822-1909

Title

Stories of adventure, as told by adventurers

Original Publication

Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1881, copyright 1904, pubdate 1905.

Credits

Susan E., David E. Brown, Mary Fahnestock-Thomas, Ed Leckert, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)

Language

English

LoC Class

G: Geography, Anthropology, Recreation

Subject

Adventure and adventurers

Category

Text

eBook-No.

79345

Project Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/79345

Release Date

August 12, 2026

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.Untitled
2. 2.Untitled
3. 3.Stories of Adventure
4. 4.Untitled
5. 5.PREFACE.
6. 6.CONTENTS.
7. 7.LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.
8. 8.I. MARCO POLO. — IRVING’S ACCOUNT OF MARCO POLO. — HOW THE EMPEROR SENT MARK ON AN EMBASSY. — OF THE GREAT COUNTRY OF PERSIA, WITH SOME ACCOUNT OF THE THREE KINGS. — HOW NAYAN WAS BEATEN. — POST HOUSES.
9. 9.II. SIR JOHN MANDEVILLE AND THE CRUSADES. — HOW ROSES FIRST CAME INTO THE WORLD. — OF THE ROCKS OF ADAMANT. — THE STORY OF THE THIRD ROYAL MENDICANT. — OF THE GREAT CHAN OF CATHAY.
10. 10.III. BERTRANDON IN PALESTINE. — BERTRANDON DE LA BROCQUIÈRE.
11. 11.IV. GEOFFREY OF VINSAUF.
12. 12.V. HERNANDO CORTES’S LETTERS. — EXTRACT FROM CORTES’S THIRD AND FOURTH LETTERS. — EXTRACT FROM CORTES’S FIFTH LETTER.
13. 13.VI. FRA MARCO AND CORONADO.
14. 14.VII. THE JESUIT RELATIONS. — FATHER JOGUES’S STORY.
15. 15.VIII. NORTHERN DISCOVERIES.
16. 16.IX. HUMBOLDT’S TRAVELS. — HUMBOLDT’S JOURNEY TO THE EQUINOCTIAL REGIONS. — AROMATIC SHRUBS. — COW-TREE. — HOWLING MONKEYS. — FINDING WATER. — ELECTRICAL EELS. — CROCODILES. — JAGUARS. — A COMFORTABLE NIGHT. — A PLEASANT WALK. — ONE-EYED MEN. — PLAGUE OF FLIES. — INTERLOCKED RIVERS.
17. 17.X. A YOUNG MAN’S VOYAGE. — A VOYAGE WITH FOUR SAILORS. — BOARDING THE HAZARD. — CALL ON THE GOVERNOR. — LETTERS. — WAIT ON THE GOVERNOR. — QUICKSILVER. — TAKING LEAVE.
18. 18.XI. THE NORTHWEST. — PLAN OF THE PARTY. — AN INDIAN TRIBE.
19. 19.XII. SIBERIA AND KAMCHATKA. — A POORGA. — A GENTLE HINT. — PRINCE ZACHAR. — THE REINDEER. — SLEEPING IN SNOW. — SLEIGHING IN MAY. — A MOUNTAIN HOME. — LOST IN A WILDERNESS.
20. 20.INDEX.
21. 21.Untitled
22. 22.Untitled
23. 23.Untitled
24. 24.Untitled
25. 25.Untitled

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