The Cartels Jungle
Category: Short Stories Author:novel
It was a world of greedy Dynasts—each contending for the right to pillage and enslave. But one man\'s valor became a shining shield.
Category: Short Stories Author:novel
It was a world of greedy Dynasts—each contending for the right to pillage and enslave. But one man\'s valor became a shining shield.
Category: Short Stories Author:novel
I cannot pretend that my ambition to paint the Man of Sorrows had any religious inspiration, though I fear my dear old dad at the Parsonage at first took it as a sign of awakening grace. And yet, as an artist, I have always been loath to draw a line between the spiritual and the beautiful; for I have ever held that the beautiful has in...
Category: Short Stories Author:novel
This little volume consists of the letters I wrote from Bulawayo, Johannesburg and Pretoria for the journal South Africa, which is exclusively devoted to matters relating to the region whence it derives its title. Each letter contains the researches of a week. As the public had already a sufficiency of books dealing with the history, g...
Category: Short Stories Author:novel
My father’s land—Born at sea—My school life—Aunt Bretta—Spoilt by over-indulgence—Enticed to sea—The Kite schooner—Contrast of a vessel in port with a vessel at sea—My shipmates—My name fixed in more ways than one—A gale—Repentance comes too late—Suspicious customers—A narrow escape—Naples and its Bay.
Category: Short Stories Author:novel
I have the pleasure of laying before the New York Historical Society a brief account of the progress which has been made during the past year towards extending our knowledge of the globe, particularly with reference to its geography, and to those nations whose history is imperfectly known. The subject is one that more properly belongs ...