Author: David HumphreysPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Generals
Languages : en
Pages : 152
Book Description
Memoirs of the Life, Adventures, and Military Exploits of Israel Putnam
Author: David HumphreysPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Generals
Languages : en
Pages : 152
Book Description
Red Classics Exploits and Adventures of Brigadier Gerard
Author: Arthur Conan DoylePublisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0141035862
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 411
Book Description
"The 17 stories collected here follow the title character, a swaggering soldier in Napoleon's army, famous for his bravery on the field of battle and his romantic forays with women."--Amazon.com.
The Exploits and Adventures of Miss Alethea Darcy
Author: Elizabeth AstonPublisher:
ISBN: 9780752852416
Category : England
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
Alethea, the youngest, most talented and high-spirited daughter of the Darcys, has married too hastily on the rebound. She soon discovers that her husband is not only a brute but that he has bizarre ideas about a wife's duty in the bedroom. She will have to flee, yet she knows he will pursue her. She must take drastic measures to foil his plans and protect herself. Thus she sets out to cross the Channel, masquerading as one Aloysius Hawkins, gentleman. Accompanied only by her redoubtable maid, Figgins, her plan is to join her elder sister, Camilla, in Italy. But events - always dramatic and at times life threatening - conspire to keep the sisters apart. Until the mysterious Titus Manningtree, in Italy to pursue a lost Titian painting - takes a hand in her complicated affairs ¿ Elizabeth Aston presents an array of memorable nineteenth-century characters - beautiful, naïve, mischievous and downright wicked - in this deliciously witty Regency comedy.
DK Illustrated Book of Great Adventurers
Author: Richard PlattPublisher: DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley)
ISBN:
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 104
Book Description
Recounts the true-life adventures of 30 unique human beings such as Marco Polo and Amelia Earhart.
The Pirates Own Book, Or, Authentic Narratives of the Lives, Exploits, and Executions of the Most Celebrated Sea Robbers
Author: The Life and Adventures of Nat Love
Author: Nat LovePublisher: Black Classic Press
ISBN: 9780933121171
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 190
Book Description
Thousands of black cowpunchers drove cattle up the Chisholm Trail after the Civil War, but only Nat Love wrote about his experiences. Born to slaves in Davidson County, Tennessee, the newly freed Love struck out for Kansas after the war. He was fifteen and already endowed with a reckless and romantic readiness. In wide-open Dodge City he joined up with an outfit from the Texas Panhandle to begin a career riding the range and fighting Indians, outlaws, and the elements. Years later he would say, "I had an unusually adventurous life". That was rare understatement. More characteristic was Love's claim: "I carry the marks of fourteen bullet wounds on different parts of my body, most any one of which would be sufficient to kill an ordinary man, but I am not even crippled". In 1876 a virtuoso rodeo performance in Deadwood, Dakota Territory, won him the moniker of Deadwood Dick. He became known as DD all over the West, entering into dime novels as a mysteriously dark and heroic presence. This vivid autobiography includes encounters with Bat Masterson and Billy the Kid, a soon-after view of the Custer battlefield, and a successful courtship. Love left the range in 1890, the year of the official closing of the frontier. Then, as a Pullman train conductor he traveled his old trails, and those good times bring his story to a satisfying end.
The Novels and Miscellaneous Works of Daniel De Foe: The life, adventures, and piracies of Captain Singleton. Life of Colonel Jack
Author: Daniel DefoeThe Life, Adventures, and Piracies of Captain Singleton
Author: Daniel DefoePublisher: D. A. Talboys
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 418
Book Description
The Wilder Life
Author: Wendy McClurePublisher: Riverhead Books
ISBN: 1594485682
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
A pioneer pilgrimage, a tribute to Laura Ingalls Wilder, and a hilarious account of butter-churning obsession will make this a sure favorite.
Life Lived Wild
Author: Rick RidgewayPublisher: Patagonia
ISBN: 9781938340994
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
At the beginning of his memoir Life Lived Wild, Adventures at the Edge of the Map, Rick Ridgeway tells us that if you add up all his many expeditions, he’s spent over five years of his life sleeping in tents: “And most of that in small tents pitched in the world’s most remote regions.” It’s not a boast so much as an explanation. Whether at elevation or raising a family back at sea level, those years taught him, he writes, “to distinguish matters of consequence from matters of inconsequence.” He leaves it to his readers, though, to do the final sort of which is which."--Amazon.