The Great Quest
by Charles Boardman Hawes
Publisher: The Torbell Company 1921
ISBN/ASIN: B00513JPNO
Number of pages: 360
Description:
A romance of 1826, wherein are recorded the experiences of Josiah Woods of Topham, and of those others with whom he sailed for Cuba and the Gulf of Guinea. He braves the stormy seas, encounters natives, searches for gold... and rescues a lovely lady.
Download or read it online for free here:
Download link
(multiple formats)
Similar books
A Tale of Two Tunnelsby William Clark Russell - Chatto & Windus
The ship Lovelace lay in the East India Docks, being newly arrived from an East India voyage. Her commander, Jackman, stood in her cabin and gazed in his glass; he looked at his face, and seemed to study it. There was a mark as of a blow...
(7618 views)
Treasure of Kingsby Charles Gilson - Boy's Own Paper
Eagerly, with hands that trembled somewhat, I studied the map. It will be remembered that the portion had been torn across the place where was marked the Temple of Cahazaxa. Upon the fragment that had come into my hands by so strange a chance...
(9886 views)
Stories from The Arabian Nightsby Laurence Houseman, Edmund Dulac - Hodder and Stoughton
The book includes the story of Ali Baba and the forty thieves, the story of the princess of Deryabar, the magic horse, Aladdin and the wonderful lamp, the fisherman and the genie, the king of the Ebony Isles, Sinbad the sailor, and other stories.
(21874 views)
Shackleton's Man Goes Southby Tony White - Science Museum
Tony White has written a bold novel-cum-manifesto, a prophecy, satire, and warning, and a gripping polar allegory for the era of global warming. He brings a puzzlemaster's ingenuity and a storyteller's sense to create a stark vision of a future ...
(7053 views)