Heckington, Band 1;Band 483

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Seite 16 - NARRATIVE OF A JOURNEY ROUND THE WORLD, Comprising A WINTER PASSAGE ACROSS THE ANDES TO CHILI, WITH A VISIT TO THE GOLD REGIONS OF CALIFORNIA AND AUSTRALIA, THE SOUTH SEA ISLANDS, JAVA, &c.
Seite 17 - ... the beautiful in those famous regions consecrated to everlasting immortality in the annals of the prophets — and which no other modern writer has ever depicted with a pencil at once so reverent and picturesque.'' — Sun. " In the mixture of story with anecdote, information and Impression, it perhaps surpasses 'Eothen.
Seite 15 - Ngami was reached by a route that had been deemed impracticable, but which proves to be the shortest and the best. The work contains much scientific and accurate information...
Seite 13 - ... world can present. These he has depicted by pen and pencil. He has done both well. Many a fireside will rejoice in the determination which converted the artist into an author. Mr. Atkinson is a thorough Englishman, brave and accomplished, a lover of adventure and sport of every kind. He knows enough of mineralogy, geology, and botany to impart a scientific- interest to his descriptions and drawings ; possessing a keen sense of humour, he tells many a racy story. The sportsman and the lover of...
Seite 13 - ... taste is gratified by chronicles of sport, the lover of adventure will find a number of .perils and escapes to hang over, and the lover of a frank good-humoured way of speech will find the book a pleasant one in every page. Seven years of wandering, thirty-nine thousand five hundred miles of moving to and fro in a wild and almost unknown country, should yield a book worth reading, and they do.
Seite 9 - Much as has been written of late years about war and Wellington, we know of nothing that contains so striking a picture of the march and the battle as seen by an individual, or so close and homely a sketch of the Great Captain...
Seite 19 - V.— A WOMAN'S THOUGHTS ABOUT WOMEN. BY THE AUTHOR OF "JOHN HALIFAX, GENTLEMAN." " A book of sound counsel It is one of the most sensible works of its kind, wellwritten, true-hearted, and altogether practical Whoever wishes to give advice to a young lady may thank the author for means of doing so."— Examiner.
Seite 20 - ... the romance of reality far exceeds the romance of fiction. Each story is told in the clear, unaffected style with which the author's former works have made the public familiar, while they afford evidence of the value, even to a work of amusement, of that historical and genealogical learning that may justly be expected of the author of

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