Brave and bold, or, The fortunes of a factory boy
By: Horatio Alger, Jr.
Series: Polyglot Press Alger series
Publisher: Polyglot press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Subjects: Adventure and adventurers -- Fiction; Swindlers and swindling -- Fiction; Conduct of life -- Fiction; Ocean travel -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
Other titles: Brave and bold; Fortunes of a factory boy
Description: In the 1870s, after his father is lost at sea, sixteen-year-old Robert Rushton works at the local factory to support himself and his mother but soon finds himself without a job seeking his fortunes in New York City and eventually voyaging to Calcutta in search of his father.
Notes: First published in 1874 by Loring, Boston.