The Knockabout Club in the Everglades: The Adventures of the Club in Exploring Lake Okechobee (Classic Reprint) - Couverture souple

Frederick A. Ober

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ISBN 10 : 1331596947 ISBN 13 : 9781331596943

Editeur : Forgotten Books, 2018

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Excerpt from The Knockabout Club in the Everglades: The Adventures of the Club in Exploring Lake Okechobee

He was open-hearted and generous in his dealings with them, and determined that they should succeed; hence he kept them with him until fully equipped for their long voyage, and it was nearly two weeks before they took their departure.

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Page In the Everglades Frontispiece The Wandering Wind bound out .13 Florida Coast 19 Lighthouse on the Coast 23 Scissor-B ills fishing 25 Fishing on the Florida Coast .... 27 An Episode of the Seminole War .. 35 Numerous channels running off east and west 39 The House on the Lagoon 43 The Naturalist in Florida 47 A panther crept stealthily up ... 51 Fishing for the Hammer-F ish .... 55 Seizing a flipper and laying hold beneath the upper shell 58 Phosphorescence at Sea 59 Tiger Tail 65 A Little Bay back of Oleander Point .d T he Great Colony of Pelicans ,. .. 71 A black paw reached up and grasped the rail 75 Birds that hovered in clouds above the bar 79 Turtle on the Beach 81 Hunted by the Bear 83 Toting the Bear ZA ssoon as the anchor dropped we all turned in 91 An Okechobee Indian 93 The Murderers Cabin 95 The Camp in the Pine Woods .... 97 Lang was a shrewd German .. .100 Osceola, Chief of the Seminoles .. .103 Page The desperate leaps of our frightened horses 104 His plantation was a mile away, in the cypress hammock ..!... 105 The next day the performance began 109- The gloom of the cypress .... 113. It was a desperate situation .. .117 Impenetrable swamp and gloomy forest 119 On the St. John s123 Van Buster 126 Flats and Prairies of the St. John s. .130 Herons 135 Soon the river resumed its crooked course 139 The Camp on the Island 143 AM ounted Warrior .153 Indian Scalp-D ance 157 Indian Burial-P lace 161 An Incident in Indian Warfare ..
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Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Forgotten Books
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1331596947
• ISBN 13: 9781331596943
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 215
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