Adventurous days
By: edited by Carl Grabo ... drawings by Loren Holmwood.
Publisher: Thomas S. Rockwell Company
Published: 1930
Place of publication: Chicago
Language: eng
Number of pages: 319
Subjects: Adventure and adventurers.
Notes: Maps on lining-papers.
A brief note about the author precedes each story.
--The fight with Flaming Tinman, by G. Borrow, from "Lavengro".--How Tristan won the fairy dog, by G. von Strassburg, from "Tristan and Iseult".--The fight with the pirate, by C. Reade, from "Hard cash".--A dog in exile, by W.H. Hudson, from "Idle days in Patagonia".--The pilgrim ship, by Sir R. Burton, from "A pilgrimage to Al-Medinah and Meccah".--The trial and death of Socrates, by Plato, from "Apology" and "Phaedo".
Table of contents: title: A bear hunt, by D. Crockett, from "Autobiography".; title: The escape from the fortress, by P. Kropotkin, from "Memoirs of a revolutionist".; title: The tiger hunt, by E. Trelawny, from "Adventures of a younger son".; title: Tonty and the Iroquois, by F. Parkman, from "History of La Salle".; title: The coming of the giaour, by W. Beckford, from "Vathek."; title: The were tiger, by Sir H. Clifford, from "The further side of silence".; title: The siege of Leyden, by J.L. Motley, from "The rise of the Dutch republic".; title: The escape from the Typees, by H. Melville, from "Typee".; title: How Hereward slew the bear, by C. Kingsley, from "Hereward".