Four Young Explorers: Sight-Seeing in the Tropics (Classic Reprint) - Couverture souple

Optic, Oliver

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1451013760 ISBN 13 : 9781451013764

Editeur : Forgotten Books, 2010

Synopsis

PREFACE "FOUR YOUNG EXPLORERS" is the third volume 01 the third series of the "All-Over-the Vorld Library." Vhen the young millionaire and his three companions of about his own age, with a chosen list of near and dear friends) had made the voyage" Half Round the ,VorId," the volume with this title left them all at Sarawak in the island of Borneo.. ~'he four young explorers, as they became, were permitted to spend three weeks there hunting, fishing, and ascending some of the rivers, while the rest of the party proceeded in the Guard· ian·~Iother to Siam. The younger members of the ship's company believed they had seen enough & of temples, palaces, and fine gardens in the great cities of the East, and desired to live a wilder life 101' a brief period. They wel'e provided with a steam-launch, prepared for long trips; and they ascended the Sarawak, the Sadong, and the Simujan Rivers, and had all the hunting, fishing, and exploring they desired. They visi

Table of Contents

CONTENTS; CIIAPTER I PAGE; TIlE BORNEO HUNTERS AND EXPLORERS 1; CIIAPTER II; A VOYAOE UP THE SARAWAK RIV'ER 10; CllAPTER III; SOMETHING ADOUT BOUi'{EO AYD ITS PEOPLE 19; CHAPTER IV; A SPECULATION l!i ' CEOCODILES • • 29; CHAPTEH V; A HUNDRED A~D EIOHT FEET OF CROCODIL~ 39; CHAPTER VI; THE VOYAGE UP TIlE SADO~G TO SIl'IIUJAN 48; CHAPTER VII; A SPIRITED BATTLE WITH OnANG-OUTANOS 68; CHAPTER VIII; A rEBFOR~IA~CE OF VEHY AOIIE GIBliOXS • 67 CHAPTER IX PAGE; A VISIT TO A DYAK LO~G-HOUSE • 77; CHAPTER X; THE MAN~ERS AND CUSTO)IS OF THE Dy AKS •• 87; CHAPTER XI; STEAMnOATI~G THROUGH A GHEAT FOREST 9G; CHAPTER XII; A FOR1IIDABLE OBSTH{;CTIO~ I-:E)lOVED • lOG; CHAPTER XIII; TilE CAPTAIN'S ASTO{;NDl~G PIWPOSITlO~ • 115; CHAPTER XIV; DOWN THE SUIUJAN A~D UP TIlE SAHAWAK; CHAPTER XV; ON TIlE VOYAGE TO POINT CAlII30DlA 13-1; CHAPTER XVI; AN EXCITING RACE I

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Forgotten Books
• Date d'édition: 2010
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1451013760
• ISBN 13: 9781451013764
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 405
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