The Reign of Law
Publisher: Macmillan Co.; Macmillan & Co.
Published: 1900
Place of publication: New York, USA; London, England
Language: eng
Number of pages: 385
Description: An historical novel which presents the economic importance of hemp as a early raw material for clothing, maritime ropes, and other cordage products. There is information about the growing and harvesting of hemp in this book.
Table of contents: title: ILLUSTRATIONS; title: "'I'll make a place for you this night,' he said" ...... Frontispiece 212; title: "The earliest sower of the hemp goes forth into the fields" ...... facing 8; title: "Let these men be the strongest" ...... facing 34; title: "Where the stately stacks rise amid the deadened trees" ...... facing 56; title: "Then the fields are as the camp of an army" ...... facing 120; title: "Winter's all-tightening frosts" ...... facing 184; title: "That first house of religious liberty in the western wilderness" ...... facing 248; title: "Into its largeness, its woodland odors, and twilight peace" ...... facing 312; title: "Gabriella whose love and faith were as Martha's" ...... facing 366