Tales Of Adventure By Sea And Land
Publisher: James Burns
Published: 1847
Language: eng
Table of contents: title: CONTENTS.; title: ADVENTURES BY SEA.; title: Introductory Chapter. — The Sea 1; title: Chap. II. — The Sailor Wrecked ; or, Adventures of Pietro Quirino, a Venetian, in the North Sea 42; title: Chap. III. — The Sailor in the Burning Ship ; or, Adventures of the Captain and Crew of the New Horn, a Dutch Ship, destroyed by Fire in the Indian Ocean 50; title: Chap. IV. — The Sailor Enslaved ; or, Adventures of John Foze, an English Sailor, taken Captive by the Turks 56; title: Chap. V. — The Sailor Abandoned ; or, the Wintering of Eight English Seamen on the Coast of Spitsbergen 65; title: Chap. VI. — The Sailor in Captivity ; or, Adventures of William Adams, an Englishman, in Japan 73; title: Chap. VII. — The Sailor bent on Discovery ; or, Hore's Ad- ventures on the Const of North America 82; title: Chap. VIII. —The Lover turned into a Sailor ; or, The Romantic Adventures of Machin 87; title: Chap. IX. — The Discoverer Deserted ; or, the Last Voyage of Hudson 91; title: Chap. X. — The Discoverer's Grave ; or, the Death of Behring 99; title: Chap. XI. — The Midshipman's Adventure ; or, the Sufferings of Byron and the Crew of her Majesty's Ship Wager, on the Coast of South America 105; title: Chap. XII. — The Sailor Struck by Lightning ; or, the sudden Destruction of the Resistance Frigate 134; title: Chap. XIII. — The Sailor Wrecked on his Native Coast ; or, the Destruction of the Halsewell East Indiaman 142; title: Chap. XIV. — The Sailor Lost in Port ; or, the Sinking of the Royal George 152; title: ADVENTURES BY LAND.; title: Chap. I. — The Adventures of Prince Charles Edward Stuart, and his Wanderings after his Defeat at Culloden 163; title: Chap. II. — Indian Dungeons ; or, the Sufferings of Captain Wilson, a British Officer, in India 196; title: Chap. III. — The Snow-buried ; or, the Sufferings of a Family under an Avalanche 209; title: Chap. IV. — The Power of Frost ; or, the miserable Retreat of a Swedish Army across the Norwegian Alps 217; title: Chap. V. — The Adventures of the Duchess de Berri, in the South of France 223; title: Chap. VI. — Prison Adventures m France; or, the Sufferings of M. de Latude in the Bastile, Vincennes, Charenton, and the Bicetre 248