The Book of Enterprise and Adventure
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About this eBook
- Author
- Anonymous
- Title
- The Book of Enterprise and Adventure Being an Excitement to Reading. for Young People. a New and Condensed Edition.
- Credits
- Produced by Loriba Barber and PG Distributed Proofreaders
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- PZ: Language and Literatures: Juvenile belles lettres
- Subject
- Adventure and adventurers -- Juvenile literature
- Category
- Text
- eBook-No.
- 11308
- Project Gutenberg
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/11308
- Release Date
- February 1, 2004
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.THE BOOK — OF — ENTERPRISE & ADVENTURE; — BEING AN — EXCITEMENT TO READING. — FOR — YOUNG PEOPLE.
- 2.WITH ILLUSTRATIONS BY ABSALON.
- 3.PREFACE.
- 4.CONTENTS.
- 5.BOOK OF ENTERPRISE & ADVENTURE.
- 6.Arabian Hospitality--African Warfare, &c . — HOSPITALITY OF THE ARAB. — HORRORS OF AFRICAN WARFARE. — CROCODILE SHOOTING.
- 7.Remarkable Instance of Courage in a Lady.
- 8.Indian Field Sports. — METHOD OF CATCHING BIRDS. — THE HYENA. — THE BEAR. — SAGACITY OF THE ELEPHANT. — ANECDOTES OF THE TIGER.
- 9.Death of Sir John Moore.
- 10.Persian Tyranny.
- 11.Sketches in Virginia. — ROCK BRIDGE. — WIER'S CAVE.
- 12.The Christian Slave.
- 13.Violent Earthquake in Calabria.
- 14.Escape from a Ship on Fire.
- 15.Anecdotes of the Albatross, &c. — THE ALBATROSS. — VISIT TO A PENGUIN ROOKERY. — THE SEA ELEPHANT. — VISIT FROM THE NATIVES AT TERRA DEL FUEGO. — CHILIAN MODE OF CAPTURING WILD HORSES. — FIGHT BETWEEN A WHALE AND A KILLER. — WAR DANCES OF THE NEW ZEALANDERS. — HISTORY OF PADDY CONNEL.
- 16.Extraordinary Escape from Drowning.
- 17.Adventure in the Desert, and Murder of a Sheikh.
- 18.POPULAR JUVENILE BOOKS,
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