A vivid and thrilling description of adventures encountered on the great plains of America by a party of gold hunters in the days of '49. The story abounds in dramatic situations, daring deeds and miraculous escapes. The two books "The Rainbow of Gold", and "The Hidden Mine" tell how the adventurers found their treasure, and their struggles with freebooters to keep it. It is a facinating story of experiences on the frontier.
A vivid and thrilling description of adventures encountered on the great plains of America by a party of gold hunters in the days of '49. The story abounds in dramatic situations, daring deeds, and miraculous escapes. The two books "The Rainbow of Gold", and "The Hidden Mine" tell how the adventurers found their treasure, and their struggles with freebooters to keep it. It is a fascinating story of experiences on the frontier.
This early science fiction story centers around an unnamed narrator living through various engagements between the British military and superior alien attackers. it describes an invasion of the British Islands by an advanced civilization from Mars. While the human defenders were hopelessly outmatched,they were still able to destroy several of the invading Machines. Will humans be able to survive this unusual invasion?
While Quartermain visits Lord Randall, two foreigners come asking for Allan Quartermain by the name he used among the Africans. Harut and Marut, priests and doctors of the White Kendah People and they have come to ask Allan Quartermain for his help. The White Kendah people are at war with the Black Kendah people who have an evil spirit for a god. And that spirit of the god resides in the largest elephant they have ever seen, an elephant that no man can kill -- save Allan Quartermain.
Armed with only his wits and his cunning, one man recklessly defies the French revolutionaries and rescues scores of innocent men, women, and children from the deadly guillotine. His friends and foes know him only as the Scarlet Pimpernel. But the ruthless French agent Chauve
Sequel to "The Prisoner of Zenda" by Anthony Hope: "A man who has lived in the world, marking how every act, although in itself perhaps light and insignificant, may become the source of consequences that spread far and wide, and flow for years or centuries, could scarcely feel secure in reckoning that with the death of the Duke of Strelsau and the restoration of King Rudolf to liberty and his throne, there would end, for good and all, the troubles born of Black Michael's daring conspiracy.
This adventure novel for young readers follows two courageous boys who set out from the United States to seek their fortunes in the harsh wilderness of Alaska and the Yukon.
Professor Challenger leads an expedition to an isolated plateau in the Amazon jungles where dinosaurs still reign. Virtually all the "lost world" adventures in book and film take their inspiration from this novel. In the public domain.