Download or read book Tom Swift and His Giant Cannon Esprios Classics written by Victor Appleton and published by . This book was released on 2023-01-08 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Victor Appleton was a house pseudonym used by the Stratemeyer Syndicate and its successors, most famous for being associated with the Tom Swift series of books. The following series have been published under the Victor Appleton name: Tom Swift (1910-1941), Motion Picture Chums (1913-1916), Moving Picture Boys (1913-1922), Movie Boys (1926-1927), Don Sturdy (1925-1935), Tom Swift, Jr. (1954-1971) (technically, ""Victor Appleton II""), Tom Swift (Third Series) (1981-1984) and Tom Swift (Fourth Series) (1991-1993). Contract authors of these books writing under the name ""Victor Appleton"" included James Duncan Lawrence, Howard Roger Garis, John W. Duffield, W. Bert Foster, Debra Doyle with James D. Macdonald, F. Gwynplaine MacIntyre, Robert E. Vardeman, Thomas M. Mitchell.
Download or read book Tom Swift and His Giant Cannon written by Victor Appleton and published by 1st World Publishing. This book was released on 2005-09-20 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Purchase one of 1st World Library's Classic Books and help support our free internet library of downloadable eBooks. Visit us online at www.1stWorldLibrary.ORG - - Now, see here, Mr. Swift, you may think it all a sort of dream, and imagine that I don't know what I'm talking about; but I do! If you'll consent to finance this expedition to the extent of, say, ten thousand dollars, I'll practically guarantee to give you back five times that sum. "I don't know, Alec, I don't know," slowly responded the aged inventor. "I've heard those stories before, and in my experience nothing ever came of them. Buried treasure, and lost vessels filled with gold, are all well and good, but hunting for an opal mine on some little-heard-of island goes them one better." "Then you don't feel like backing me up in this matter, Mr. Swift?"
Download or read book Tom Swift and His Giant Cannon Or the Longest Shots on Record written by Victor [pseud.] Appleton and published by Tredition Gmbh. This book was released on 2012 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is part of the TREDITION CLASSICS. It contains classical literature works from over two thousand years. Most of these titles have been out of print and off the bookstore shelves for decades. The book series is intended to preserve the cultural legacy and to promote the timeless works of classical literature. Readers of a TREDITION CLASSICS book support the mission to save many of the amazing works of world literature from oblivion. With this series, tredition intends to make thousands of international literature classics available in printed format again - worldwide.
Download or read book Tom Swift and His Giant Cannon written by Victor Appleton and published by IndyPublish.com. This book was released on 2008-06-01 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: American boys' fiction under pseudonym used by the Stratemeyer Syndicate who produced Tom Swift series, Nancy Drew mysteries, the Hardy Boys, Dave Fearless and many others.
Download or read book Tom Swift and His Giant Cannon written by Victor Appleton and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-12-21 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Tom Swift and His Giant Cannon: Or the Longest Shots on Record Now, see here, Mr. Swift, you may think it all a sort of dream, and imagine that I don't know what I'm talking about; but I do! If you'll consent to finance this expedition to the extent of, say, ten thousand dollars, I'll practically guaran tee to give you back five times that sum! 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 Tom Swift and His Giant Cannon Illustrated written by Victor Appleton and published by . This book was released on 2020-08-26 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published in 1913, this is the story of Tom Swift and his Giant Cannon.
Download or read book Tom Swift and His Giant Cannon written by Victor Appleton and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every boy possesses some form of inventive genius. Tom Swift is a bright, ingenious boy and his inventions and adventures make the most interesting kind of reading. These spirited tales convey in a realistic way, the wonderful advances in land and sea locomotion and other successful inventions. Stories like these are impressed upon the memory and their reading is productive only of good. This series of adventure novels starring the genius boy inventor Tom Swift falls into the genre of "invention fiction" or "Edisonade."
Download or read book Tom Swift and His Giant Cannon Or The Longest Shots on Record written by Victor Appleton and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tom Swift must construct a cannon large enough to protect the Panama Canal while evading saboteurs.
Download or read book Tom Swift and His Giant Cannon written by Victor Appleton and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-06-04 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story opens with a discussion between Barton Swift and an old friend, Alec Peterson. Alec is trying to convince Mr. Swift to finance an expedition to locate a hidden opal mine, but Mr. Swift is reluctant. In the middle of the conversation, Tom is flying one of his airships, but gets tangled up in power lines. Mr. Peterson cuts the wires, saving Tom's life. Tom is so grateful to Mr. Peterson that Tom is willing to finance the expedition himself. In the meanwhile, the story segues to Tom's next invention, a cannon bigger than any that has been built to date. Tom hopes to sell his invention to the United States government, for use in protecting the Panama Canal, which was still under active construction at the time of the story.
Download or read book Tom Swift and His Giant Cannon Or the Longest Shots on Record written by Appleton Victor and published by Hardpress Publishing. This book was released on 2016-06-21 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.
Download or read book TOM SWIFT and HIS GIANT CANNON Annotated written by Victor Appleton and published by . This book was released on 2021-08-03 with total page 127 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Now, see here, Mr. Swift, you may think it all a sort of dream, and imagine that I don't know what I'm talking about; but I do! If you'll consent to finance this expedition to the extent of, say, ten thousand dollars, I'll practically guarantee to give you back five times that sum." "I don't know, Alec, I don't know," slowly responded the aged inventor. "I've heard those stories before, and in my experience nothing ever came of them. Buried treasure, and lost vessels filled with gold, are all well and good, but hunting for an opal mine on some little-heard-of island goes them one better."
Download or read book Tom Swift and His Giant Cannon written by Victor Appleton, II and published by Palala Press. This book was released on 2016-05-02 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Download or read book Tom Swift and His Giant Cannon written by Victor Appleton and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2015-08-12 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tom Swift and His Giant Cannon, or, The Longest Shots on Record, is Volume 16 in the original Tom Swift novel series published by Grosset & Dunlap. The story opens with a discussion between Barton Swift and an old friend, Alec Peterson. Alec is trying to convince Mr. Swift to finance an expedition to locate a hidden opal mine, but Mr. Swift is reluctant. In the middle of the conversation, Tom is flying one of his airships, but gets tangled up in power lines. Mr. Peterson cuts the wires, saving Tom's life. Tom is so grateful to Mr. Peterson that Tom is willing to finance the expedition himself.
Download or read book Tom Swift and His Giant Cannon written by Victor Appleton and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-05 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tom Swift and His Sky Racer, or, The Speediest Flight on Record, is Volume 9 in the original Tom Swift novel series published by Grosset & Dunlap.A$10,000 prize lures Tom into competing at a local aviation meet at Eagle Park. Tom is determined to build the fastest plane around, but his plans mysteriously disappear, which means Tom must redesign his new airplane from the beginning. A side-plot through the story is Mr. Swift's failing health.
Download or read book The Tom Swift Omnibus 6 written by Victor Appleton, II and published by Start Classics. This book was released on 2024-03-26 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tom Swift has enthralled generations of children with his amazing adventures. So return to a simpler time put away your cynicism and dust off your sense of wonder because you're off on a series of grand adventures! Include here are Tom Swift and His Giant Cannon (Or the Longest Shots on Record) Tom Swift and His Photo Telephone (Or the Picture That Saved a Fortune) Tom Swift and His Aerial Warship (Or the Naval Terror of the Seas)
Download or read book Tom Swift and His Big Tunnel Esprios Classics written by Victor Appleton and published by . This book was released on 2023-01-08 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Victor Appleton was a house pseudonym used by the Stratemeyer Syndicate and its successors, most famous for being associated with the Tom Swift series of books. The following series have been published under the Victor Appleton name: Tom Swift (1910-1941), Motion Picture Chums (1913-1916), Moving Picture Boys (1913-1922), Movie Boys (1926-1927), Don Sturdy (1925-1935), Tom Swift, Jr. (1954-1971) (technically, ""Victor Appleton II""), Tom Swift (Third Series) (1981-1984) and Tom Swift (Fourth Series) (1991-1993). Contract authors of these books writing under the name ""Victor Appleton"" included James Duncan Lawrence, Howard Roger Garis, John W. Duffield, W. Bert Foster, Debra Doyle with James D. Macdonald, F. Gwynplaine MacIntyre, Robert E. Vardeman, Thomas M. Mitchell.
Download or read book The Adventures of Tom Swift Vol 4 written by Victor Appleton and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-15 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fourth volume of the Tom Swift classic young adult science fiction series collects: Tom Swift in Captivity, Tom Swift and His Wizard Camera, Tom Swift and his Great Searchlight, and Tom Swift and his Giant Cannon.
