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Popular Adventure Tales By: Mayne Reid (1818-1883) |
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[Illustration: THE YOUNG VOYAGEURS ON THE RED RIVER.]
Popular Adventure Tales COMPRISING THE YOUNG VOYAGEURS
OR, THE BOY HUNTERS IN THE NORTH THE FOREST EXILES
OR, ADVENTURES AMID THE WILDS OF THE AMAZON THE BUSH BOYS
OR, ADVENTURES IN THE WILDS OF SOUTHERN AFRICA By CAPTAIN MAYNE REID AUTHOR OF
" The Rifle Rangers " " The Wood Rangers "
&c., &c. ILLUSTRATED LONDON
SIMPKIN, MARSHALL, HAMILTON, KENT & CO.
GLASGOW: THOMAS D. MORISON
BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH
Captain Mayne Reid was born at Ballyroney, County Down, on the 4th
April, 1818, and was the son of the Rev. Thomas Mayne Reid. Mayne Reid
was educated with a view to the Church, but finding his inclinations
opposed to this calling, he emigrated to America and arrived in New
Orleans on January, 1840. After a varied career as plantation over seer,
school master, and actor, with a number of expeditions in connection
with hunting and Indian warfare, he settled down in 1843 as a journalist
in Philadelphia, where he made the acquaintance of Edgar Allan Poe. Leaving Philadelphia in 1846, he spent the summer at Newport, Rhode
Island, as the correspondent of the New York Herald , and in December
of the same year, having obtained a commission as second lieutenant in
the 1st New York Volunteers, he sailed for Vera Cruz to take part in the
Mexican war. He behaved with conspicuous gallantry in many engagements,
and was severely wounded and disabled at the storming of Chapultepec on
the 13th September, 1847. Returning to the United States in the spring of 1848, he resumed
literary work. But in June, 1849, he sailed for Europe in order to take
part in the revolutionary movements going on in Hungary and Bavaria,
arriving however too late, he turned his attention again to literature,
and in London in 1850, published his first novel "The Rifle Rangers," in
two volumes. Between this date and his death, he produced a large number
of volumes, which indeed no one else was capable of writing, for in them
are avowedly embodied the observations and experiences of his own
extraordinary career. Unfortunate building and journalistic speculation and enterprises
involved him in financial failure, so he returned to New York in
October, 1867. There he founded and conducted The Onward Magazine , but
owing to recurring bad effects of his old Mexican wound, he had to
abandon work for sometime and go into the hospital, on leaving which he
returned to England in 1870. During the later years of his life he
resided at Ross in Herefordshire where he died on the 22nd October,
1883, and was buried in Kensal Green Cemetery. Mayne Reid wrote in all thirty five works, chiefly books of adventure
and travel. As in the case of all authors, the books vary much in merit,
but most of them are of a high order in their own department of
literature. Many of them have been extraordinary popular and have become
standard works. Reid has not been surpassed by any other writer in
combining at one and the same time, the features of thrilling adventure
and great instruction in the fields of natural history. Many of the
works have been translated into Continental languages and are as highly
esteemed among the French and Germans as at home.
CONTENTS THE YOUNG VOYAGEURS OR BOY HUNTERS IN THE NORTH.
CHAPTER I PAGE
THE FUR COUNTRIES 13 CHAPTER II
THE YOUNG VOYAGEURS 16 CHAPTER III
THE TRUMPETER SWAN AND THE BALD EAGLE 22 CHAPTER IV
A SWAN HUNT BY TORCHLIGHT 29 CHAPTER V
"CAST AWAY" 34 CHAPTER VI
A BRIDGE OF BUCKSKIN 37 CHAPTER VII
DECOYING THE ANTELOPES 41 CHAPTER VIII
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