Newly arranged Standard Collection of History, Biography, Heroism, and Adventure
Fifty favorites in new series New uniform cover design Attractive dies Fine cloth binding Illustrated Price per volume $1
This series can truly be said to cover the world in its scope, as it chronicles heroic and daring exploits in all climes, told by an exceptionally strong list of authors. In addition we have included the full line of George Makepeace Towle’s famous “Heroes of History” and the ever popular Headley biographies. It is just the library to entertain and inform a live boy, and while composed of books that arouse eager interest is wholly free from cheap sensationalism.
- Andersen, Hans Christian—The Sand Hills of Jutland
- Armstrong, F. C.—The Young Middy
- Barrows, Rev. William—Twelve Nights in a Hunter’s Camp
- Ballantyne, R. M.—The Life Boat
- Brehat, Alfred de—The French Robinson Crusoe
- Cozzens, Samuel W.—The Young Silver Seekers
- Clarke, Mary Cowden—Yarns of an Old Mariner
- De Mille, Prof. James—Among the Brigands
- The Lily and the Cross
- The Winged Lion or Stories of Venice
- Farrar Capt. Charles A. J.—Down the West Branch or Camps and Tramps around Katahdin
- Eastward Ho! or Adventures at Rangeley Lakes
- Up the North Branch A Summer’s Outing
- Wild Woods Life or A Trip to Parmachenee
- Frost, John, LL.D.—Wild Scenes of a Hunter’s Life
- Hall, Capt. Charles W.—Twice Taken A Tale of Louisburg
- Harley, Dr.—-The Young Crusoe or Adventures of a Shipwrecked Boy
- Headley, P. C.—Facing the Enemy The Life of Gen Wm. Tecumseh Sherman
- Fight It Out on This Line The Life and Deeds of Gen U. S. Grant
- Fighting Phil The Life of Gen. Philip Henry Sheridan
- Old Salamander The Life of Admiral David G. Farragut
- Old Stars The Life of Gen. Ormsby M. Mitchell
- The Miner Boy and His Monitor The Career of John Ericsson, Engineer
- Kingston, W. H. K.—Anthony Waymouth
- Ernest Bracebridge or School Boy Days
- The Adventures of Dick Onslow among the Redskins
- The Cruise of the Frolic
- Lee, Mrs. R.—The African Crusoes
- The Australian Wanderers
- McCabe, James D., Jr—Planting the Wilderness
- Macy, William H.—The Whales We Caught and How We Did It
- Morecamp, Arthur—Live Boys or Charlie and Nasho in Texas
- Live Boys in the Black Hills or the Young Texas Gold Hunters
- Pearson. Dr. C. H.—The Cabin on the Prairie
- The Young Pioneers of the Northwest
- Rowcroft, Charles—The Australian Crusoes
- St. John, Percy B.—The Arctic Crusoe Adventures on the Sea of Ice
- Towle, George Makepeace—Drake the Sea King of Devon
- Magellan or The First Voyage around the World
- Marco Polo His Travels and Adventures
- Pizzaro His Adventures and Conquests
- Raleigh His Voyages and Adventures
- Vasco da Gama His Voyages and Adventures
- The Heroes and Martyrs of Invention
- Verne, Jules—A Winter in the Ice
- Around the World in Eighty Days
- The Wreck of the Chancellor
- Wraxhall, Sir Lascelles—Golden Hair A Tale of the Pilgrim Fathers
- The Prairie Crusoe or Adventures in the Far West
- Willis the Pilot A Sequel to the Swiss Family Robinson
LEE and SHEPARD Publishers Boston
Transcriber’s Note
- Punctuation and other obvious typographic inconsistencies and inaccuracies were silently corrected.
- Archaic and variable spelling has been preserved.
- Variations in hyphenation and compound words have been preserved.
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