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Thrilling Adventures By Land And Sea

Thrilling Adventures By Land And Sea

by James O. BRAYMAN (1815 - 1887)

There is in the adventures of the daring and heroic, something that interests all. There is a charm about them which, while it partakes of the nature of Romance, does not exercise the same influence upon the mind or heart. When there are noble purposes and noble ends connected with them, they excite in the mind of the reader, noble impulses. The object of the present compilation [1852] is to form a readable and instructive volume--a volume of startling incident and exciting adventure, which shall interest all minds, and by its attractions beget thirst for reading… - Book Preface


A Battle with Snakes; Estill's Defeat; Incident at Niagara Falls; Skater chased by a Wolf; Our Flag on the Rocky Mountains; Running the Canon

A Jungle Recollection; Attack of Boonesborough; Thrilling Incidents of Battle; Family Attacked by Indians

A Sea-Fowling Adventure; Adventure with a Cobra di Capello; Combat of Wild Animals; Perilous Incident on a Canadian River; A Whale Chase

A Storm among the Icebergs; Fall of the Rossberg; The Rifleman of Chippewa; Shipwreck of the Blendenhall

Adventures of Sergeant Champe In His Attempt To Capture Arnold

Adventures with Pirates; Kenton, the Spy

Charged by a Rhinoceros; Burning of the Erie; Conflict with an Indian; Fire on the Prairies; The Captain's Story

Deaf Smith, the Texan Spy; Escape from a Shark; Adventure with Pirates

Escape from Shipwreck; The Hunter's Wife

General Jackson and Weatherford; Cruise of the Saldanha and Talbot; A Carib's Revenge; Massacre of Fort Mimms; The Freshet

Hunting the Moose; Perilous Escape from Death; Fire in the Forest; Pirates of the Red Sea

Incident at Resaca de la Palma; True Heroism; Thrilling Incident; Incident in the War of Mexican Independence

Indian Devil; Bear Fight; The Miners of Bois-Monzil

Leopard Hunting And Adventures With Buffaloes And Lions; Hunting the White Rhinoceros, Lion, Buffalo, and Giraffe; A Leopard Hunt; Life in California

Preface

Ship Towed to Land by Bullocks; Destruction of a Ship by a Whale; Burning of the Kent

Sketch from Life on the Ocean

The Dying Volunteer, An Incident Of Molino Del Rey; Escape from a Mexican Quicksand By Captain Mayne Reid

The Panther's Den; Adventure with Elephants; The Shark Sentinel; Hunting the Tiger

The Rescue; Shipwreck of the Medusa

Thrilling Incident; Adventures of Dr. Bacon

Tussle with a Wildcat; Incident in Frontier Life; Female Intrepidity; Encounter with Robbers; Shipwreck of the Monticello