Wild Life in the Land of the Giants
by Gordon Stables
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About this eBook
- Author
- Stables, Gordon, 1840-1910
- Title
- Wild Life in the Land of the Giants: A Tale of Two Brothers
- Credits
- Produced by Nick Hodson of London, England
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- PZ: Language and Literatures: Juvenile belles lettres
- Subject
- Brothers -- Juvenile fiction
- Category
- Text
- eBook-No.
- 38263
- Project Gutenberg
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/38263
- Release Date
- December 10, 2011
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.Untitled
- 2."A Tale of two Brothers" — Chapter One. — Book I—Our Home by the Sea. — The Old Home by the Sea—Aunt Serapheema. — Chapter Two. — While Walking on the Sea-Beach. — Chapter Three. — The Story of a Shipwreck—A Mystery—The Fate of Poor Joe. — Chapter Four. — The Sound of War—First Sorrows—A Change in our Lives. — Chapter Five. — The Gallant “Thunderbolt”—Tom Morley, Bo’s’n’s Mate—A Strange Dream. — Chapter Six. — An Appalling Adventure—“We must Prepare for Instant Flight.” — Chapter Seven. — Alone on the Moor—Adventure in the Cave. — Chapter Eight. — Good Advice from a Strange Quarter—Midnight and Anxiety. — Chapter Nine. — A Midnight Drive—Arrival at Bristol—The Good Ship “Salamander”—How Tom Morley Died. — Chapter Ten. — Book II—Patagonia and the Land of Fire. — A Strange Introduction—Saint Helena and Fun on Shore—Cape Town. — Chapter Eleven. — Life at Sea—Poor Father’s Death—Mattie and I. — Chapter Twelve. — “Come to me, Jack, I cannot come to you.” — Chapter Thirteen. — The Straits of Magellan—Firelanders—The Storm—The Ship Strikes. — Chapter Fourteen. — We Leave the Doomed Ship—Pursued by Savages. — Chapter Fifteen. — Lost in the Snowstorm—What we Saw in the Forest. — Chapter Sixteen. — A State of Siege. — Chapter Seventeen. — Fighting in Terrible Earnest—Our Last Sortie—Back to Back in Cornish Fashion. — Chapter Eighteen. — The Story of our Rescue—A Dinner and a Ball—Peter and Dulzura. — Chapter Nineteen. — Book III—The Land of Giants. — All Alone on the Pampas—The Camp in the Cañon. — Chapter Twenty. — A Wild Ride—Cooking an Ostrich Whole—Quiet Evenings round the Camp Fire. — Chapter Twenty One. — The “Murder Tree”—Wild and Exciting Sport—Jill and the Puma—Hostile Indians. — Chapter Twenty Two. — A Blinding Summer-Snowstorm—Peter as a Horseman—Peter in a Fix. — Chapter Twenty Three. — “Our Horses Stampeded”—“Poor Benighted Heathens!”—Jill’s Little Joke—Telling Jeeka the Story of the world—Adventure in the Haunted Wood. — Chapter Twenty Four. — A Journey to the Country of the Gualichu—The Earthquake—a wondrous sight—“I will pray to the Great Good Spirit.” — Chapter Twenty Five. — King Kaiso’s Land—A Regiment of Giants—Kaiso’s Witch—Condemned to Death. — Chapter Twenty Six. — Castizo’s Idyllic Home in the Cordilleras—Preparing for winter—catching and Breaking Wild Horses. — Chapter Twenty Seven. — The Snow-Wind—Winter Life and Amusement—Death of “De Little Coqueet.” — Chapter Twenty Eight. — The Dreaded River-Lion—Adventure on the Plains—Lost in a Snowstorm—“To Sleep were Death.” — Chapter Twenty Nine. — The Fight ’twixt Winter and Spring—A Never-to-be-Forgotten Evening—Attacked by Northern indians—The Fire. — Chapter Thirty. — “It is better thus.” — Chapter Thirty One. — On the Good Yacht “Magdalena”—“The very Seas used to sing to us”—The Home-Coming—The End.
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