Download or read book Adventures of Early Discoverers Classic Reprint written by Frances A. Humphrey and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Adventures of Early Discoverers Many years ago, thousands of years ago, the people of Europe used to talk about an island which they called Atlantis. They said this island lay far to the west, in the Atlantic Ocean. And, the truth is, that ocean was so named for this island. Atlantis was said to be a most lovely island, with high mountains, wide rivers, and multitudes of singing birds. Flowers grew everywhere, and the weather was always fair. Diamonds and other precious gems could be picked up anywhere about the island, and Neptune, the sea-god, had a most beautiful palace right in the centre of it. Best of all, the people who lived there were always good and happy. But I never heard of anybody who ever really saw this island. Sometimes, people, as they stood On the western shores of Europe, thought they saw it. It lay along the horizon quite plainly, they thought. But it always went away again. And sometimes the sailors thought they saw it too; but when they turned their boats toward it, 10! It was gone. And this is the way it played hide-and-seek, and nobody ever caught it. There was a good man who lived about a thousand years be fore. Columbus, a man so good he was called Saint Brandon. He was always doing good to' people. And when he heard about Atlantis, he wanted to go there and do good to the people. So he sailed with another good man, Saint Malo. But of course, he did not find Atlantis, though he found another island which was ever after called by his name - the island of Saint Brandon. But the droll thing is that nobody could ever after find that island of Saint Brandon again. A great many people have tried to find it. Even as late as 1721 a ship sailed from the Island of Teneriffe in search of it. For the people of the Canary Islands fancied they saw it, some times, about a hundred miles to the west. And, it is said, that even to this day, they sometimes think they see its mountain-tops above the At lantic waves. And this is the second hide-and-seek Island. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book First Explorers of North America written by Joseph Banvard and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-03-19 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from First Explorers of North America: Or Discoveries and Adventures in the New World From these accounts a correct Opinion may be formed of the kind of experience which those underwent who first traversed the coast and explored the interior of this great continent. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Adventures of Early Discoverers written by Frances A. Humphrey and published by . This book was released on 1888 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Vikings of the Pacific written by A. C. Laut and published by . This book was released on 2015-06-28 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Vikings of the Pacific: The Adventures of the Explorers Who Came From the West, Eastward At the very time the early explorers of New France were pressing from the east, westward, a tide of adventure had set across Siberia and the Pacific from the west, eastward. Cartier and Champlain of New France in the east have their counterparts arid contemporaries on the Pacific coast of America in Francis Drake, the English pirate on the coast of California, and in Staduchin and Deshneff and other Cossack plunderers of the North Pacific, whose rickety keels first ploughed a furrow over the trackless sea out from Asia. Marquette, Jolliet and La Salle - backed by the prestige of the French government are not unlike the English navigators, Cook and Vancouver, sent out by the English Admiralty. Radisson, privateer and adventurer, might find counterpart on the Pacific coast in either Gray, the discoverer of the Columbia, or Ledyard, whose ill-fated, wildcat plans resulted in the Lewis and Clark expedition. Bering was contemporaneous with La Verendrye; and so the comparison might be carried on between Benyowsky, the Polish pirate of the Pacific, or the Outlaw Hunters of Russia, and the famous buccaneers of the eastern Spanish Main. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Discoverers and Explorers Classic Reprint written by Edward R. Shaw and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-09-09 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Discoverers and Explorers During the time the pupil is acquiring this ele mentary knowledge of the world as a whole, certain facts of history may be interrelated with the geo graphical study. According to the plan already suggested, it will be seen that the pupil is carried out from a study of the limited area of land and water about him to an idea of the world as a sphere, with its great distribution of land and water. In this transference he soon comes to perceive how small a part his hitherto known world forms of the great earth-sphere itself. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Historic Landmarks written by A. L. Van Osdel and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-03 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Historic Landmarks: Being a History of Early Explorers and Fur-Traders, With a Narrative of Their Adventures in the Wilds of the Great Northwest Territory Many years ago the writer purchased some rare old volumes from the library of the late General J. B. S. Todd - Dakota's first delegate in congress. On their musty pages are found interesting accounts of the white man's doings in the wilds of the great northwest. Here, beyond the borderlands of civilization, history was rapidly made and graphically reported, and nearly every day becomes an anniversary of some important historical event enacted in the lands of ancient Louisana and the Dakotas. Here, wild Indians roamed in migratory bands across the uninhabited plains, and the fur-traders' Mackinaw boats glided over the turgid waters of the mighty Missouri - propelled by a band of French voy ageurs. No longer will these old navigators thread their restless way up the winding channel of the great river. Their glory has departed never to return! A straggling wanderer may still be seen pitching his lonely tent along the shallow waters of some remote tributary, but he will soon disappear and his songs die away like the echoes they awaken. The old Missouri river trappers and hunters will ever be remember ed as poetic images who moved in the vanguard of pioneer life. Their names and exploits are interwoven with episodes of daring deeds of adventure and themesof traditional associations, around the sacred precincts of many old historic landmarks. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Exploration Discovery and Conquest of the New World written by D. M. Kelsey and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-11 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Exploration, Discovery and Conquest of the New World: Containing the Thrilling Adventures of Christopher Columbus, Americus Vespucius, John and Sebastian Cabot, Etc His first service was under the command of a relative, a Colombo who had for some time past held the rank of an admiral. We cannot tell the de gree of relationship; probably it was very distant; for, as we have seen, the father of the discoverer was a poor man, a mechanic. In the fifteenth cen tury, a man who worked was thought very little of; quite below consider ation, in fact; and perhaps the old admiral was not very proud of his poor relations. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Stories of Discovery written by Edward E. Hale and published by . This book was released on 2015-08-05 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Stories of Discovery: As Told by Discoverers Some years ago a convention of librarians was held in Boston. The subject of the reading most in the hands of young people was discussed, in the most practical way, by many of those persons who see, face to face, the young readers who come to Public Libraries, and who have to give to them the books they ask for. The judgment of these gentlemen and ladies, who have every opportunity of forming a true opinion, is unanimous on one point. Boys and girls, of average intelligence, can be made to take a real interest in the reading of the best books, if those books are entertaining, and if the way be made easy. But we ask too much of the librarian, who is, perhaps, overseeing the delivery of one book every ten seconds, if we expect him to do everything in guiding the taste of the young readers who apply for another book, interesting and new. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Thirty Years in the Arctic Regions written by John Franklin and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-11-07 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Thirty Years in the Arctic Regions: Or, the Adventures of Sir John Franklin Sm John Franklin's first expedition to the Arctic Regions was made in the year 1816, as Lieutenant under Captain Buchan, with the ships Dorothea and Trent. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book The Romance of Modern Exploration written by Archibald Williams and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-03-09 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Romance of Modern Exploration: With Descriptions of Curious Customs, Thrilling Adventures and Interesting Discoveries of Explorers in All Parts of the World Thus was the Niger discovered. We may regard this as the first exploring expedition made deliberately into unknown lands, of which we have any historical record. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Adventures of the First Settlers on the Oregon Or Columbia River 1810 1813 written by Alexander Ross and published by Westphalia Press. This book was released on 2018-09-26 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Soon after information from Lewis and Clark's expedition to chart the western region of the United States was shared, investors and explorers sought ways to capitalize on the information. In this work, Alexander Ross details the trials and tribulations of one such expedition, now known as the Astor Expedition. Ross was employed by John Jacob Astor's Pacific Fur Company, and this led to the founding Fort Astoria, an American outpost near the Columbia River. Although the title suggests that members of Astoria were "the first settlers" of the region, it fails to consider the numerous indigenous tribes Ross encountered and described in great detail. For example, this work includes an appendix of Chinook vocabulary, highlighting how extensive and advanced the indigenous populations were that had already settled in that region. The fort itself was populated by a variety of people, including French-Canadians, Scots, Hawaiians, Americans, and a variety of indigenous North American peoples, such as Iroquois. Due to the War of 1812, the fort was bought out by the North West Company, which renamed it Fort George.
Download or read book Michigan History Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 746 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Remarkable Life Adventures and Discoveries of Sebastian Cabot of Bristol the Founder of Great Britain s Maritime Power Discoverer of America and Its First Colonizer Classic Reprint written by J. F. Nicholls and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Remarkable Life, Adventures and Discoveries of Sebastian Cabot, of Bristol, the Founder of Great Britain's Maritime Power, Discoverer of America, and Its First Colonizer Differing widely from him on fome points, it is but right to add that the author's conclu fions have been mainly arrived at through evidence which was not known to be in exift ence thirty years fince. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Early Explorers written by Ellen Mitten and published by . This book was released on 2013-08 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the book, Early Explorers, young readers will learn about the significant explorers in history, like Marco Polo and Columbus, and how their discoveries impacted culture and society for the years to follow. Each 24-page book in this series features real-word examples and leveled text for use in guided reading which allows students to understand and explain key themes and details. The Little World Social Studies series brings history to life and help teach young readers about some of the most notable events and people in America's storied history.
Download or read book JAMES OLIVER CURWOOD 20 Western Classics Adventure Novels written by James Oliver Curwood and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2023-12-12 with total page 4127 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This carefully crafted ebook: "JAMES OLIVER CURWOOD: 20 Western Classics & Adventure Novels, Including Short Stories, Historical Works & Memoirs (Illustrated" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents: Novels The Wolf Hunters The Gold Hunters Kazan Baree, Son of Kazan The Courage of Captain Plum The Danger Trail The Honor of the Big Snows Philip Steele of the Royal Northwest Mounted Police The Flower of the North Isobel God's Country and the Woman The Hunted Woman The Grizzly King The Courage of Marge O'Doone Nomads of the North The River's End The Valley of Silent Men The Golden Snare The Flaming Forest The Country Beyond Short Stories Back to God's Country (Wapi the Walrus) The Yellow-Back The Fiddling Man L'ange The Case of Beauvais The Other Man's Wife The Strength of Men The Match The Honor of Her People Bucky Severn His First Penitent Peter God The Mouse The First People Thomas Jefferson Brown Other Works The Great Lakes God's Country – The Trail to Happiness James Oliver Curwood (1878-1927) was an American action-adventure writer and conservationist. His adventure writing followed in the tradition of Jack London. Like London, Curwood set many of his works in the wilds of the Great White North. He often took trips to the Canadian northwest which provided the inspiration for his wilderness adventure stories. At least eighteen movies have been based on or inspired by Curwood's novels and short stories.
Download or read book Adventures in the Ice written by John Tillotson and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-08-08 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Adventures in the Ice: A Comprehensive Summary of Arctic Exploration, Discovery, and Adventure; Including Experiences of Captain Penny, the Veteran Whaler, Now First Published Exploration, Discovery, and Adventure are subjects always interesting to those who can appreciate What is heroic and self denying in their fellow-men. Only ignoble natures can remain unmoved by acts of noble enterprise and generous daring. Nowhere have these qualities been more conspicuous than amid the ih clemency of the Arctic Regions. The search for a North-west Passage to the Indies led our seamen to penetrate into the frozen deep, and exposed them to the horrors of utter desolation, cruel privation, and sometimes lingering death. The sufi'erings endured have called forth all the best feelings of the heart, and have exercised the noble power of endurance. The design of this book is to relate some of the most interesting narratives of Adventure in the Ice. The stories of the Norsemen and of explorers before the time of John Cabot are omitted, as the particulars are less authentic than are those subsequent to that period. Throughout the work there is a chronological sequence observed, though this is not strictly main tained in some of the later voyages, When two or three Arctic expeditions were being conducted at the same time. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Michigan History written by George Newman Fuller and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 758 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
