Sink or swim, or, Harry Raymond's resolve
By: Horatio Alger, Jr.
Series: Polyglot Press Alger series
Publisher: Polyglot Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Subjects: Swindlers and swindling -- Fiction; Ocean travel -- Fiction; Conduct of life -- Fiction; Gold mines and mining -- Fiction; Australia -- History -- 19th century -- Fiction; New York (N.Y.) -- History -- 1865-1898 -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
Other titles: Sink or swim; Harry Raymond's resolve
Description: After the death of his carpenter father, fifteen-year-old Harry Raymond, now the sole support of his mother and younger sister, finds his plans for a business career in New York City overturned when his discovery of a fraudulent insurrance scheme leads to his kidnapping and forced indenture on a ship bound for China.
Notes: First published in 1870 by Loring, Boston.