The True Story Book. Various

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      Published by Good Press, 2019

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      EAN 4057664611567

Table of Contents

       INTRODUCTION

       PLATES

       A BOY AMONG THE RED INDIANS

       CASANOVA'S ESCAPE

       ADVENTURES ON THE FINDHORN

       THE STORY OF GRACE DARLING

       THE 'SHANNON' AND THE 'CHESAPEAKE'

       CAPTAIN SNELGRAVE AND THE PIRATES

       THE SPARTAN THREE HUNDRED

       PRINCE CHARLIE'S WANDERINGS

       CHAPTER I

       CHAPTER II

       CHAPTER III

       CHAPTER IV

       TWO GREAT MATCHES

       THE STORY OF KASPAR HAUSER

       AN ARTIST'S ADVENTURE

       THE TALE OF ISANDHLWANA AND RORKE'S DRIFT

       HOW LEIF THE LUCKY FOUND VINELAND THE GOOD

       THE ESCAPES OF CERVANTES

       THE WORTHY ENTERPRISE OF JOHN FOXE, AN ENGLISHMAN, IN DELIVERING TWO HUNDRED AND SIXTY-SIX CHRISTIANS OUT OF THE CAPTIVITY OF THE TURKS AT ALEXANDRIA, JANUARY 3, 1577

       BARON TRENCK

       THE ADVENTURE OF JOHN RAWLINS

       THE CHEVALIER JOHNSTONE'S ESCAPE FROM CULLODEN

       THE ADVENTURES OF LORD PITSLIGO

       THE ESCAPE OF CÆSAR BORGIA FROM THE CASTLE OF MEDINA DEL CAMPO

       THE KIDNAPPING OF THE PRINCES

       THE CONQUEST OF MONTEZUMA'S EMPIRE

       The Youth of Cortés

       The Wonders of Mexico

       The Beginning of the Expedition

       The March to Mexico

       The Occupation of Mexico.

       Fighting in Mexico.

       The Night or Horror.

       The Siege and Surrender of Mexico.

       ADVENTURES OF BARTHOLOMEW PORTUGUES, A PIRATE

       THE RETURN OF THE FRENCH FREEBOOTERS [29]

       THE OUTDOOR WORLD

INTRODUCTION

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      It is not without diffidence that the editor offers The True Story Book to children. We have now given them three fairy books, and their very kind and flattering letters to the editor prove, not only that they like the three fairy books, but that they clamour for more. What disappointment, then, to receive a volume full of adventures which actually happened to real people! There is not a dragon in the collection, nor even a giant; witches, here, play no part, and almost all the characters are grown up. On the other hand, if we have no fairies, we have princes in plenty, and a sweeter young prince than Tearlach (as far as this part of his story goes) the editor flatters himself that you shall nowhere find, not in Grimm, or Dasent, or Perrault. Still, it СКАЧАТЬ