Facing the world, or, The haps and mishaps of Harry Vane
By: Horatio Alger, Jr.
Series: Polyglot Press Alger series
Publisher: Polyglot Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Subjects: Conduct of life -- Fiction; Heroes -- Fiction; Shipwrecks -- Fiction; Orphans -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
Other titles: Facing the world; Haps and mishaps of Harry Vane
Description: Orphaned at sixteen, Harry runs away from the miserly cousin who would be his guardian and becomes assistant to a magician, with whom he sets sail for Australia, facing great danger heroically when their ship is caught in a storm.
Notes: First published in 1893 by Porter and Coates, Philadelphia.