22/05/2024
Owen Clancy’s Run Of Luck
Owen Clancy befriends a lad he saves from peril. He and his friend foil a nefarious plot. – Summary by Howard Skyman [chương_files]
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22/05/2024
Thrill Book Vol. I No. 1, March 1, 1919
Thrill Book was a short-lived genre fiction precursor to Weird Tales featuring some of the same talent like Greye La Spina, Seabury Quinn, Clark Ashton Smith and Francis Stevens but with a somewhat broader scope that included crime and spy stories, westerns and adventure tales in addition to the sci-fi, fantasy and horror that Weird Tales was known for. In this first issue, marvel at the short story debut of noted Woman of Weird Fiction Greye La Spina! Thrill to the opening part of the lost race jungle adventure serial “In the Shadows of Race”! Sink into the curious doppelgänger tale “The Man Who Met Himself”! Be amazed at the mysterious and mystical tale of an ancient Egyptian curio in “The Jeweled Ibis”! All this and more! – Summary by Ben Tucker [chương_files]
22/05/2024
Via Berlin
From the Preface: “The veil of diplomacy screens many secrets—most of them for many years. But the veil is not impenetrable; from time to time a corner lifts, disclosing a fact long-suspected but never quite comprehended, a fact that fits into a history hitherto incomplete. So of this tale!” Relations between Germany and Japan vs. the United States are strained, and war is possible. A smoldering romance and tense international intrigue involve even the highest level of the U. S. government in this absorbing novel. [chương_files]
22/05/2024
Travels in New Zealand with contributions to the geography, geology, botany, and natural history of that country, Vol. I
“Let the reader imagine a deep lake of a blue colour, surrounded by verdant hills; in the lake several islets, some showing the bare rock, others covered with shrubs, while on all of them steam issued from a hundred openings between the green foliage without impairing its freshness: on the opposite side a flight of broad steps of the colour of white marble with a rosy tint, and a cascade of boiling water falling over them into the lake!” Such is Ernest Dieffenbach’s description of his first glance of the White Terraces in Lake Rotomahana, see cover image. Johann Karl Ernst Dieffenbach (aka Ernest) traveled to New Zealand between 1839 and 1841 employed by the New Zealand Company as naturalist. He traveled in the Marlborough Sounds at the top of the South Island and extensively throughout the North Island at an early time in European settlement. In Volume I of “Travels in New Zealand” he describes his travels, integrating his observations of the natural world with the progress of colonisation, and a humane account of the Māori people that he met and their culture, settlements and inter-tribal politics. He made an important contribution to the early knowledge of the New Zealand flora and fauna, with his collections eventually being lodged in the British Museum and the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Note: Māori words have been pronounced as spelled in the text, which is occasionally different to modern spelling and pronunciation. (summary by Gail Timmerman-Vaughan) [chương_files]
22/05/2024
Canoeing in the Wilderness
A highly descriptive and engaging narrative from one of America’s beloved nature writers, this short piece shows well Thoreau’s great love of the early American wilderness. Be transported to the deep woods of Maine and share in both Thoreau’s delight in nature and also his admiration of those others who have a deeper connection with the natural world around them. (Summary by Falassewen) [chương_files]
22/05/2024
With Sack and Stock in Alaska
In 1888, George Broke with Harold Topham and William Williams, made the first exploration of the Alaskan Mt. St. Elias range, including the crossing of the great Malaspina Glacier and an attempt on the S.E. face of Mt. St. Elias itself. The journey is described in the interesting work With Sack and Stock in Alaska, vividly detailing the country visited and the characters met along the way. – Summary by Fritz [chương_files]
22/05/2024
Trois mois sous la neige: journal d’un jeune habitant du Jura
Un jeune homme pris dans la neige avec son grand-père et un chèvre doit se débrouiller pour survivre l’hiver. A young boy is snowed in with his grandfather and a goat in a summer hut in the Jura mountains. He must use all his resources and develop new ones to have a hope of survival. – Summary by czandra [chương_files]
22/05/2024
True Tales of Arctic Heroism in the New World
The Arctic has always been a fascinating area for us. This is true today just as much as in Adolphus Greely’s time. In 1912, Greely published this volume of notable Arctic explorations and the explorers. The modern reader can follow a very readable account of the successes and failures of these early explorers comfortably from the armchair, and learn a lot of history in the processes. – Summary by Carolin [chương_files]
21/05/2024
In the Hands of the Cave-Dwellers
In the Hands of the Cave-Dwellers is a classic adventure where the hero is an American sailor who saves a young Mexican from thugs. The story spreads to an Indian attack, the loss of the heroine to cave dwellers, her rescue, and the eventual happiness of hero and heroine who have overcome adversity. – Summary by Publisher [chương_files]
21/05/2024
Hearts of Three
Francis Morgan, a wealthy heir of industrialist and Wall Street maven Richard Henry Morgan, is a jaded young New Yorker. When his father’s business partner Thomas Regan suggests that Francis take a holiday in Central America, ostensibly to search for the treasure of the Morgans’ legendary ancestor, Francis thinks it’s a splendid idea. But he never suspects what adventures await across the border… – Summary by Goodreads Cast List: Narrator: Lynette Caulkins Francis Morgan: john warren hart Henry Morgan: Benjamin Tucker Leoncia Solano: Krista Zaleski Parker and Priest of the Sun: James R. Hedrick Thomas Regan: John Payton Señor Álvarez Torres and Yi Poon: Wayne Cooke Señor Mariano Vercara è Hijos and Bascom: Greg Giordano Enrico Solano and Lieutenant Parsons: Todd Alesandro Solano: Ted Perkins Martinez Solano, Gendarme, Overseer Ramirez: redrun Alvarado Solano: Andrew Gaunce Ricardo Solano, Juchitán Haciendado: Inkell Solano Maid: Eileen Ellen Solano Servant 1, Trefethen’s Sailor, Carib, Haciendado 3, Caroo, and Newspaper Pedlar: David Purdy Solano Servant 2, Percival, Carib, Old Buccaneer Henry Morgan, Guillermo, Panamanian Judge, Lost Soul, and Canoe Indian: John Kennard Mayan Lad and José, a Mayan youth: Elijah Fisher Captain Trefethen: Max Magnus Carib: Yuqing Pedro Zurita and Police Lt. Burns: Scott Caulkins Rafael and Charlie Tippery: Elsie Selwyn Ignacio and Blind One’s Leader: Joe Bergin Augustino, Capitán Rosaro, and Johnny Pathmore: Bill Mosley Haciendado 2 and Vicente: Major Toast Oil Man and Peter McGill: Archives27 Beleaguered Peon and Bear Broker: Beeswaxcandle The Blind Brigand: Larry Wilson The Blind One’s Daughter: Eliza Old […]