Download or read book The House Under the Sea Musaicum Adventure Classics written by Max Pemberton and published by e-artnow. This book was released on 2021-05-07 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The House Under the Sea is an adventure tale set in the Pacific ocean and told by Jasper Begg, veteran sailor who has spent some fifteen years on the ocean. Jasper tells the story of the infamous Ken's Island, the most fearsome place he came across during his marine life. Excerpt: "He indicated the distant reef, which seemed, as I bear witness, ablaze with lights. And not only the reef, mark you, but the sea about it, a cable's length, it may be, to the north and the south, shone like a pool of fire, yellow and golden, and sometimes with a rare and beautiful green light when the darkness deepened. Such a spectacle I shall never see again if I sail a thousand ships! That luscious green of the rolling seas, the spindrift tossed in crystals of light, foam running on the rocks, but foam like the water of jewels, a dazzling radiance—aye, a very carpet of quivering gold. Of this had they made the northern channel. How it was done, what cleverness worked it, it needed greater brains than mine to say. I was for all the world like a man struck dumb with the beauty of something which pleases and awes him in the same breath. We were just a little frightened group that stared open-mouthed upon a seeming miracle. If we regarded the things we saw with a seaman's reverence, let no one make complaint of that. The spectacle was one to awe any man; nor might we forget that those who appeared to live below the sea lived there, as Ruth Bellenden had told us, because the island was a death-trap. We were in the trap and none to show us the road out."
Download or read book The Coral Island Musaicum Adventure Classics written by R. M. Ballantyne and published by e-artnow. This book was released on 2020-12-17 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Coral Island: A Tale of the Pacific Ocean relates the adventures of three boys marooned on a South Pacific island. The story is told from the perspective of 15-year-old Ralph Rover, one of three boys shipwrecked on the coral reef of a large but uninhabited Polynesian island. Ralph and his two companions – 18-year-old Jack Martin and 13-year-old Peterkin Gay – are the sole survivors of the shipwreck. At first, boys have to manage how to feed themselves, what to drink, and how the resolve clothing and shelter, coping with having to rely on their own resources. As the boys adopt to the situation, they start dealing with new difficulties, such as conflicting with pirates, fighting with native Polynesians, and dealing with Christian missionaries and their conversion efforts.
Download or read book The Coral Island The Gorilla Hunters Musaicum Adventure Classics written by R. M. Ballantyne and published by e-artnow. This book was released on 2020-12-17 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Coral Island: A Tale of the Pacific Ocean" relates the adventures of three boys marooned on a South Pacific island. The story is told from the perspective of 15-year-old Ralph Rover, one of three boys shipwrecked on the coral reef of a large but uninhabited Polynesian island. Ralph and his two companions – 18-year-old Jack Martin and 13-year-old Peterkin Gay – are the sole survivors of the shipwreck. At first, boys have to manage how to feed themselves, what to drink, and how the resolve clothing and shelter, coping with having to rely on their own resources. As the boys adopt to the situation, they start dealing with new difficulties, such as conflicting with pirates, fighting with native Polynesians, and dealing with Christian missionaries and their conversion efforts. "The Gorilla Hunters: A Tale of the Wilds of Africa" is a sequel to The Coral Island set in "darkest Africa", and it follows the further adventures of Ralph Rover, Peterkin Gay and Jack Martin. After their adventures in the South Sea Islands, Jack, Ralph, and Peterkin go their separate ways. Six years later, Ralph, living on his father's inheritance on England's west coast and occupying himself as a naturalist, is visited by Peterkin, whose "weather-beaten though ruddy countenance" he does not recognise. Peterkin, who has stayed in touch with Jack, has hunted and killed every animal on Earth except for the gorilla and now comes to Ralph to entice him on a new adventure. After Peterkin writes him a letter, Jack joins the two, and they leave for Africa.
Download or read book The Death Ship Musaicum Adventure Classics written by William Clark Russell and published by e-artnow. This book was released on 2021-05-07 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Geoffrey Fenton is a second-rate officer who embarks on the ship called Saracen. On the high seas, they have an encounter with a brig who claims to have sighted the mythical ghost ship of the Flying Dutchman, cursed ship that can never reach land, condemned to sail forever and ever, bringing bad luck to any ship that crosses its path. This information starts haunting the captain of the Saracen due to the contagious bad luck that this may entail and it turns out to be right when Fenton suffers an accident. He gets rescued by the ghostly crew of the Flying Dutchmen and the infamous Captain Vanderdecken. His only mission becomes to escape from the Death Ship.
Download or read book The Gorilla Hunters Musaicum Adventure Classics written by R. M. Ballantyne and published by e-artnow. This book was released on 2020-12-17 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Gorilla Hunters: A Tale of the Wilds of Africa follows the adventure of three young men in "darkest Africa." Ralph Rover is living on his father's inheritance on England's west coast and occupying himself as a naturalist. He gets visited by his old friend Peterkin Gay, whose "weather-beaten though ruddy countenance" he does not recognize. Peterkin has hunted and killed every animal on Earth except for the gorilla and now comes to Ralph to entice him on a new adventure. The two are joined by the third friend, Jack Martin, and they leave for Africa.
Download or read book The Iron Pirate Musaicum Adventure Classics written by Max Pemberton and published by e-artnow. This book was released on 2021-05-07 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Iron Pirate is the tale of a great gas-driven iron-clad, which could outpace the navies of the world and terrorize the Atlantic Ocean. Constructed of a phosphor-bronze alloy with engines in the vessel that burn hydrogen, manufactured by passing steam through hot coal to produce a mixture of hydrogen and carbon dioxide, the nameless ship is captained by the infamous Captain Black and it brings horror to every ship and every sailor that comes in its path.
Download or read book Martin Rattler Musaicum Adventure Classics written by R. M. Ballantyne and published by e-artnow. This book was released on 2020-12-17 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Martin Rattler grew up in a quiet village called Ashford where he lived with an aunt and he always dreamed of an adventure in a far away country. When he finished school, Martin boarded the ship Firefly where he became friends with Irish man Barney O'Flannagan. When pirates attacked their ship and it was wrecked, Martin and Barney were washed ashore on a Brazilian beach. Dealing with dense jungle, they had to made acquaintance with numerous jungle animals, birds, beasts and reptiles. They took a sail up the Amazon river, shooting alligators on its banks, spearing fish in its waters, and eventually being captured by wild tribes of Amazon forest. Upon escaping, Martin and Barney came across the diamond mines in Minas Gerais, and after doing some mining and gaining wealth, they decided it's time for them to return home. But, as always, things don't turn out as they plan.
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Download or read book The Pirate of Panama Musaicum Adventure Classics written by William MacLeod Raine and published by e-artnow. This book was released on 2020-12-17 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Pirate of Panama is a tale of the lost pirate treasure, and a group of San Francisco misfits and rascals who learn the secret, find the ship, and head off to an adventure. The chase takes them to Panama where they meet numerous perils in an attempt to get their hands on the buried gold.
Download or read book In Paradise Musaicum Must Classics written by Paul Heyse and published by e-artnow. This book was released on 2021-05-07 with total page 673 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Paradise is one of the best-known novels by the German writer and translator Paul Heyse first published in 1875. Excerpt: "On slender pedestals stood a multitude of figures, most of them of half life-size, such as are used for the decoration of Catholic churches, chapels and cemeteries. Some of them were just begun, some were almost finished works; and in all could be clearly recognized the hands of the pupils who had their execution in charge--sometimes more and sometimes less skillfully imitating the little original models, barely six inches high, that stood on small shelves beside the copies. While the latter were neatly cut in sandstone or in the cheaper marbles--and a few in wood, decorated with all manner of painting and gilding--the little models were in plaster, and spotted and nicked by constant use. Yet these doll-like little madonnas, saints and apostles, and praying and playing angels in their heavy draperies, had a certain odd and now and then almost caricatured life-likeness--so great that not all of its charm was lost, even in the dry copies made by the assistants. They had something of the same element of humor that Ariosto gives to his personages--which by no means lose in life or force because their author has lost his own simple faith in them."
Download or read book This Side of Paradise Musaicum Classics Series written by F. Scott Fitzgerald and published by e-artnow. This book was released on 2022-01-04 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Side of Paradise examines the lives and morality of American youth in the aftermath of World War I and explores the theme of love warped by greed and status seeking. Amory Blaine is an attractive student at Princeton University who tries to keep a long distance relationship with his beloved Isabelle Borgé and writes her ever more flowery poems. But inevitably, Amory and Isabelle become disenchanted with each other after meeting again at his prom. Following their break-up, Amory is shipped overseas to serve in the army in World War I where he serves as a bayonet instructor. After the war, Amory comes back ready to fit in the society, search for love and continue his life, but keeps running into obstacles.
Download or read book Hugo s Runaway Legs written by Alys Jackson and published by Larrikin House. This book was released on 2022-06-01 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hugo's legs have run away. They simply didn't want to stay at home where they just lay about. Hugo's legs just wanted out! Hugo Holt's legs have run away and jumped on the bus! Hugo can't do without them. How on earth will he catch his runaway legs?
Download or read book The Greatest Murder Mysteries of Max Pemberton written by Max Pemberton and published by e-artnow. This book was released on 2021-05-07 with total page 1524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Musaicum Books presents to you this meticulously edited crime and mystery collection, formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents: Novels: A Gentleman's Gentleman The Diamond Ship The Sea Wolves The Lady Evelyn Aladdin of London White Motley Short Stories: Jewel Mysteries I Have Known; From a Dealer's Note Book: The Opal of Carmalovitch The Necklace of Green Diamonds The Comedy of the Jewelled Links Treasure of White Creek The Accursed Gems The Watch and the Scimitar The Seven Emeralds The Pursuit of the Topaz The Ripening Rubies My Lady of the Sapphires The Signors of the Night; The Story of Fra Giovanni: The Risen Dead A Sermon for Clowns A Miracle of Bells The Wolf of Cismon The Daughter of Venice Golden Ashes White Wings to the Raven The Haunted Gondola The Man Who Drove the Car: The Room in Black The Silver Wedding In Account with Dolly St. John The Lady Who Looked On The Basket in the Boundary Road The Countess Tales of the Thames: Marygold A Ragged Intruder Barbara of the Bell House The Carousal: A Story of Thanet Jack Smith—Boy The Donnington Affair The Devil To Pay
Download or read book The Man Who Drove the Car written by Max Pemberton and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2019-12-13 with total page 131 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Max Pemberton's 'The Man Who Drove the Car' is a riveting novel that delves into the complexities of human nature and the consequences of our actions. Set in the early 20th century, the book follows the journey of a wealthy businessman who finds himself consumed by the allure of power and control. Pemberton's writing style combines vivid imagery and thought-provoking prose to create a rich literary experience for the reader. Through the protagonist's moral dilemmas and inner conflicts, Pemberton explores timeless themes of ambition, greed, and the struggle for redemption. Max Pemberton, a renowned British author and physician, draws on his deep understanding of human behavior and psychology to craft a compelling narrative that resonates with readers. His background in medicine gives him a unique perspective on the intricacies of the human mind, which is evident in the depth of his character development and storytelling. 'The Man Who Drove the Car' showcases Pemberton's talent for weaving together intricate plotlines with profound philosophical insights. I highly recommend 'The Man Who Drove the Car' to readers who appreciate literary fiction that challenges them to reflect on the complexities of human nature. Pemberton's masterful storytelling and insightful exploration of moral themes make this novel a captivating and thought-provoking read.
Download or read book Jewel Mysteries I Have Known written by Sir Max Pemberton and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Deathwatch written by Robb White and published by Laurel Leaf. This book was released on 2011-04-27 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "An exciting novel of suspense, based on a fight to the finish between an honest and courageous young man and a cynical business tycoon who believes that anything can be had for a price."--Horn Book. An ALA Best of the Best Books for Young Adults, Edgar Allan Poe Mystery Writers Award, A New York Times Outstanding Book of the Year, New York Public Library--Books for the Teen Age.
Download or read book The Secret History of the Handbag written by Meredith Etherington-Smith and published by Double-Barrelled Books. This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the earliest practical containers to the star handbags of today, this book is a comprehensive gallimaufry of the handbag through the ages.