G. A. Henty was a 19th century novelist, special correspondent and Imperialist. His best-known works are historical adventures. The book for adult readers begins: "The reconquest of the Soudan will ever be mentioned as one of the most difficult, and at the same time the most successful, enterprises ever undertaken. The task of carrying an army hundreds of miles across a waterless desert; conveying it up a great river, bristling with obstacles; defeating an enormously superior force, unsurpassed in the world for courage; and, finally, killing the leader of the enemy and crushing out the last...
G. A. Henty was a 19th century novelist, special correspondent and Imperialist. His best-known works are historical adventures. The book for adult rea...
G. A. Henty was a 19th century novelist, special correspondent and Imperialist. His best-known works are historical adventures. Henty said that his love of story telling began in his childhood when his family told tales after dinner. The British and French were struggling for power in North America. When Quebec fell the English would become supreme. The Anglo-Saxon race would be predominant in the New World. English commerce. Language, and literature would spread around the world. In With Wolfe in Canada James Walsham leaves England as a young man in 1755 and finds himself in the French and...
G. A. Henty was a 19th century novelist, special correspondent and Imperialist. His best-known works are historical adventures. Henty said that his lo...
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This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remov...
G A Henty was a 19th century novelist, special correspondent and Imperialist. His best-known works are historical adventures. While most of the 122 books he wrote were for children, he also wrote adult novels, non-fiction such as The March to Magdala (1868) and Those Other Animals (1891), short stories for the likes of The Boys Own Paper and edited the Union Jack, a weekly boys magazine. An excerpt from On the Pampas reads "The boys were in the highest spirits at being at last really out upon the pampas, and as day fairly broke they had a hearty laugh at the appearance of their cavalcade....
G A Henty was a 19th century novelist, special correspondent and Imperialist. His best-known works are historical adventures. While most of the 122 ...
G. A. Henty was a 19th century novelist, special correspondent and Imperialist. His best-known works are historical adventures. While most of the 122 books he wrote were for children, he also wrote adult novels, non-fiction such as The March to Magdala (1868) and Those Other Animals (1891), short stories for the likes of The Boy's Own Paper and edited the Union Jack, a weekly boys magazine. In Freedom's Cause is the story of the Scottish War of Independence. Henty's hero fought under both Wallace and Bruce. Wallace and Bruce show valor and courage greater than almost any other men in history....
G. A. Henty was a 19th century novelist, special correspondent and Imperialist. His best-known works are historical adventures. While most of the 122 ...
G A Henty was a 19th century novelist, special correspondent and Imperialist. His best-known works are historical adventures. While most of the 122 books he wrote were for children, he also wrote adult novels, non-fiction such as The March to Magdala (1868) and Those Other Animals (1891), short stories for the likes of The Boy's Own Paper and edited the Union Jack, a weekly boys magazine. The preface sets the scene as follows. oThe four opening years of the fifteenth century were among the most stirring in the history of England. Owen Glendower carried fire and slaughter among the Welsh...
G A Henty was a 19th century novelist, special correspondent and Imperialist. His best-known works are historical adventures. While most of the 122 bo...
G A Henty was a 19th century novelist, special correspondent and Imperialist. His best-known works are historical adventures. While most of the 122 books he wrote were for children, he also wrote adult novels, non-fiction such as The March to Magdala (1868) and Those Other Animals (1891), short stories for the likes of The Boy's Own Paper and edited the Union Jack, a weekly boys magazine. In the Irish Brigade was written in 1914 and tells an adventure story during the war with Flanders and Spain. This was a time of religious persecution, poor government, secular hatred, and general...
G A Henty was a 19th century novelist, special correspondent and Imperialist. His best-known works are historical adventures. While most of the 122 bo...
G.A. Henty was a 19th century novelist, special correspondent and Imperialist. His best-known works are historical adventures. While most of the 122 books he wrote were for children, he also wrote adult novels, non-fiction such as The March to Magdala (1868) and Those Other Animals (1891), short stories for the likes of The Boy's Own Paper and edited the Union Jack, a weekly boys magazine. Wulf the Saxon is an action filled story of the Norman conquest. The adventure begins "From one of the side doors of the palace a page, some fifteen or sixteen years of age, ran down the steps in haste. He...
G.A. Henty was a 19th century novelist, special correspondent and Imperialist. His best-known works are historical adventures. While most of the 122 b...
The year is 218 B.C. and Rome and Carthage are locked in a life-or-death struggle for control of the ancient world. Join a fictional young Carthaginian noble, named Malchus, as he travels with the famous General Hannibal across the Alps and into Italy, the heartland of the Roman republic. Set against the backdrop of the Second Punic War, The Young Carthaginian is a wonderful mix of adventure and history which makes for excellent reading for older boys and adults. During this adventure you will learn why Hannibal was a great leader and why Rome ultimately won the struggle in spite of...
The year is 218 B.C. and Rome and Carthage are locked in a life-or-death struggle for control of the ancient world. Join a fictional young Carthaginia...