Arizona Argonauts. H. Bedford-Jones

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Название: Arizona Argonauts

Автор: H. Bedford-Jones

Издательство: Bookwire

Жанр: Языкознание

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isbn: 4064066500344

isbn: 0

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Arizona Argonauts is a western novel by H. Bedford-Jones. Bedford-Joneswas a Canadian-American historical, adventure fantasy, science fiction, crime and Western writer who became a naturalized United States citizen in 1908.He wrote numerous works of historical fiction dealing with several different eras, including Ancient Rome, the Viking era, seventeenth century France and Canada during the «New France» era. Bedford-Jones produced several fantasy novels revolving around Lost Worlds. Excerpt: "The two gentlemen fell silent, gazing hopefully at the listless waste of Main Street as though waiting for some miracle to cause that desert to blossom as the rose. At either side of the porch, rattled and crackled in the morning breeze the brownish and unhappy-looking palms which had given the city its present name. They were nearly ten feet in height, those palms, and men came from miles around to gaze upon them. It was those two palms that had started Piute Tomkins in the orchard business, which now promised to waken the adjacent countryside to blooming prosperity…"