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The Book of enterprise and adventure : being an excitement to reading for young people / with illustrations by Absalon.
Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Children's Literature and Childhood Available online
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- Book
- Series:
- Darton's holiday library ; no. 10.
- Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Children's Literature and Childhood.
- Darton's holiday library ; no. 10
- Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Children's Literature and Childhood
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Adventure and adventurers--Juvenile literature.
- Adventure and adventurers.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (143, 35 pages) : illustrations.
- Edition:
- A new and condensed edition.
- Other Title:
- Book of enterprise
- Place of Publication:
- London : Darton and Company, 1853.
- System Details:
- text file
- Contents:
- Arabian hospitility, et cetera
- Remarkable instance of courage in a lady
- Indian field sports
- Death of Sir John Moore
- Persian tyranny
- Sketches in Virginia
- The Christian slave
- Violent earthquake in Calabria
- Escape from a ship on fire
- Anecdotes, et cetera
- Extraordinary escape from drowning
- Adventure in the desert, and murder of a Sheikh.
- Notes:
- Ill. engraved by G. Dalziel.
- Reproduction of the original from the Baldwin Library of Historical Children's Literature, George A. Smathers Libraries, University of Florida.
- OCLC:
- 905336282
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
- Bound With:
- Bound with: Reviews and literary notices, with the opinions of the London and Provincial Press on the Rev. T. Wilson's popular school catechisms. London : Darton and Company.
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