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Dikes and Ditches Young America in Holland and Belguim By: Oliver Optic (1822-1897) |
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By OLIVER OPTIC DIKES AND DITCHES BOSTON Lee & Shepard. [Illustration: A SQUALL IN THE GERMAN OCEAN. Page 36.] [Illustration] DIKES AND DITCHES; OR, YOUNG AMERICA IN HOLLAND AND BELGIUM. A STORY OF TRAVEL AND ADVENTURE. BY OLIVER OPTIC. BOSTON: LEE AND SHEPARD, PUBLISHERS. NEW YORK: LEE, SHEPARD & DILLINGHAM, 49 GREENE STREET. 1874. Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1868, by
WILLIAM T. ADAMS,
In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of Massachusetts. ELECTROTYPED AT THE
Boston Stereotype Foundry,
No. 19 Spring Lane.
TO My Fellow Voyager in the Steamship Persia DURING A PLEASANT TRIP ACROSS THE ATLANTIC, IN 1865, STEPHEN S. HOE , WHOSE NAME EVER REMINDS ME OF MY PERSONAL INDEBTEDNESS
FOR MUCH OF THE PLEASURE OF THE VOYAGE; NOT ONLY
TO MY YOUNG FRIEND WHOSE NAME I MENTION HERE,
BUT ALSO TO HIM WHO SAT OPPOSITE TO US AT
TABLE, WHOSE NAME, ASSOCIATED WITH
ONE OF THE PROUDEST ACHIEVEMENTS
OF AMERICAN INVENTIVE GENIUS,
I NEED NOT MENTION, FOR
NO WORD OF MINE
COULD HONOR
IT, THIS VOLUME IS RESPECTFULLY DEDICATED.
YOUNG AMERICA ABROAD. BY OLIVER OPTIC.
A Library of Travel and Adventure in Foreign Lands. First and
Second Series; six volumes in each Series. 16mo. Illustrated.
First Series. I. OUTWARD BOUND; OR, YOUNG AMERICA AFLOAT. II. SHAMROCK AND THISTLE ; OR, YOUNG AMERICA
IN IRELAND AND SCOTLAND. III. RED CROSS ; OR, YOUNG AMERICA IN ENGLAND AND
WALES. IV. DIKES AND DITCHES ; OR, YOUNG AMERICA IN
HOLLAND AND BELGIUM. V. PALACE AND COTTAGE ; OR, YOUNG AMERICA
IN FRANCE AND SWITZERLAND. VI. DOWN THE RHINE ; OR, YOUNG AMERICA IN
GERMANY.
Second Series. I. UP THE BALTIC ; OR, YOUNG AMERICA IN DENMARK
AND SWEDEN. II. NORTHERN LANDS ; OR, YOUNG AMERICA IN
PRUSSIA AND RUSSIA. III. VINE AND OLIVE ; OR, YOUNG AMERICA IN SPAIN
AND PORTUGAL. IV. SUNNY SHORES ; OR, YOUNG AMERICA IN ITALY
AND AUSTRIA. V. CROSS AND CRESCENT ; OR, YOUNG AMERICA
IN GREECE AND TURKEY. VI. ISLES OF THE SEA ; OR, YOUNG AMERICA HOMEWARD
BOUND.
PREFACE.
DIKES AND DITCHES, the fourth of the "YOUNG AMERICA ABROAD" series, is a
continuation of the history of the Academy Ship and her consort in the
waters of Holland and Belgium. As in its predecessors, those parts of
the book which lie within the domain of history and fact are intended to
be entirely reliable; and great care has been used to make them so. The
author finds his notes so copious, and his recollections of the Low
Countries so full of interest, that he has felt obliged to devote a
considerable portion of the work to the geography and history of the
country, and to the manners and customs of the people; but there is so
much that is novel in the region itself, and so much that is stirring
and even "sensational" in the history of the sturdy patriots of Holland,
that he hopes his young friends will not complain of the proportion in
which he has mingled his material. It would be a very great happiness to
him to have excited a sufficient degree of interest in these countries
to induce the boys and girls to read Mr. Motley's inimitable works, "The
Rise of the Dutch Republic," and "The History of the United
Netherlands." The writer is confident that young people will find these
volumes quite as attractive as the story books of the day. DIKES AND DITCHES has its independent story of the adventures of the
students. Though the Academy Squadron has thus far been remarkably
fortunate in the character of its instructors, Professor Hamblin proves
to be an exception, and the crews of the ship and her consort are
unhappily plunged into sundry disciplinary tribulations by his
overstrained dignity, and by his want of discretion... Continue reading book >>
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