Author: Robert Michael BallantynePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 432
Book Description
The Giant of the North; Or, Pokings Round the Pole, by R.M. Ballantyne
Author: Robert Michael BallantynePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 432
Book Description
The Giant of the North
Author: Robert Michael BallantynePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 464
Book Description
The Giant of the North Pokings Round the Pole
Author: R. M. BallantynePublisher: BEYOND BOOKS HUB
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
But the howling condition of life did not last long. At the age of five years little Chingatok began to grow unusually fast, and when he reached the age of seven, the tribe took note of him as a more than promising youth. Then the grand spirit, which had hitherto sought to vent itself in yells and murderous assaults on its doting mother, spent its energies in more noble action. All the little boys of his size, although much older than himself, began to look up to him as a champion. None went so boldly into mimic warfare with the walrus and the bear as Chingatok. No one could make toy sledges out of inferior and scanty materials so well as he. If any little one wanted a succourer in distress, Skreekinbroot was the lad to whom he, or she, turned. If a broken toy had to be mended, Chingatok could do it better than any other boy. And so it went on until he became a man and a giant....FROM THE BOOKS.
The Giant of the North, Or, Pokings Round the Pole
Author: Robert Michael BallantynePublisher: London : J. Nisbet
ISBN:
Category : Arctic regions
Languages : en
Pages : 472
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The Giant of the North Pokings Round the Pole
Author: R. M. (Robert Michael) BallantynePublisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781722658618
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 122
Book Description
The Giant of the North Pokings Round the Pole by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne Introduces our Hero and his Kindred. The Giant was an Eskimo of the Arctic regions. At the beginning of his career he was known among his kindred by the name of Skreekinbroot, or the howler, because he howled oftener and more furiously than any infant that had ever been born in Arctic land. His proper name, however, was Chingatok, though his familiars still ventured occasionally to style him Skreekinbroot. Now it must not be supposed that our giant was one of those ridiculous myths of the nursery, with monstrous heads and savage hearts, who live on human flesh, and finally receive their deserts at the hands of famous giant-killing Jacks. No! Chingatok was a real man of moderate size-not more than seven feet two in his sealskin boots-with a lithe, handsome figure, immense chest and shoulders, a gentle disposition, and a fine, though flattish countenance, which was sometimes grave with thought, at other times rippling with fun. We are delighted to publish this classic book as part of our extensive Classic Library collection. Many of the books in our collection have been out of print for decades, and therefore have not been accessible to the general public. The aim of our publishing program is to facilitate rapid access to this vast reservoir of literature, and our view is that this is a significant literary work, which deserves to be brought back into print after many decades. The contents of the vast majority of titles in the Classic Library have been scanned from the original works. To ensure a high quality product, each title has been meticulously hand curated by our staff. Our philosophy has been guided by a desire to provide the reader with a book that is as close as possible to ownership of the original work. We hope that you will enjoy this wonderful classic work, and that for you it becomes an enriching experience.
The Giant of the North: Pokings Round the Pole :by R. M. Ballantyne
Author: R BallantynePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 357
Book Description
This is the tale of a giant Eskimo, Screekinbroot, also called Chingatok. Journey with our young heroes into the frozen tundra and icy waters of the North Pole regions for encounters with Eskimo peoples and to learn about their life and what it is like when the Kabiunets comes to the Arctic. Captain Vane, his son Benjamin, and his two nephews Leo and Alf come in search of the North Pole. When their ship, The White Bear, gets stuck in the ice, the party of mariners face icy adventures and, in the end, discover the North Pole. (This was written before the Pole had been discovered.) There they find an old man whose ancestor was John MackIntosh, one of the sailors of Captain Henry Hudson, who had journeyed to the north pole, married, and had children, one of whom was this old man.
THE PUBLISHERS' WEEKLY
Author: The Bookseller
Author: Publisher:
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Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 1638
Book Description
Official organ of the book trade of the United Kingdom.
The Social Dimensions of Fiction
Author: Steven Tötösy de ZepetnekPublisher: Vieweg+Teubner Verlag
ISBN: 3663139093
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 201
Book Description
This work is a comparative study of nineteenth-century English-Canadian and French Canadian novel prefaces, a previously unexplored literary topic. As a study in Comparative Literature - with the application of a specific literary framework and methodology - the study conforms to theoretical and methodological postulates formulated in and prescribed by this framework when applied. This a priori postulate necessitates that the research on and the presentation of the Canadian novel preface be carried out in a specific manner, as follows. First, the study will establish the hypothesis that the preface to nineteenth-century English-Canadian and French-Canadian novels is a genre in its own right. This hypothesis will rest on the following: 1) a taxonomical survey of related terms meaning "preface"; 2) a survey of secondary Iiterature of works dealing with the preface; 3) a discussion of the theoretical framework and methodology of the Empirical Theory of Literature and its appropriateness for the study of the preface; and 4) a discussion of the process of the compilation of the corpus of nineteenth-century Canadian novel prefaces (Chapter one). In a second step, the theoretical postulate outlined in the hypothesis will be put into practice by the development and production of a preface typology (Chapter two). In a third step, further tenets of the Empirical Theory of Literature will be tested on the corpus of the prefaces (Chapter three). In a fourth step, the prefaces will be analysed following the tenets formulated in and prescribed by the systemic framework applied (Chapter four).
Bulletin of the Mercantile Library of Philadelphia
Author: Mercantile Library of PhiladelphiaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 526
Book Description