类别：儿童英文小说 作者： Robert Michael Ballantyne
简介： Especially may this be said to be the case in a cold, raw night in November, when mankind has a tendency to become chronically cross out of doors, and nature, generally, looks lugubrious; for, just in proportion as the exterior world grows miserably...
类别：儿童英文小说 作者： Robert Michael Ballantyne
简介： There is a dividing ridge in the great northern wilderness of America, whereon lies a lakelet of not more than twenty yards in diameter. It is of crystal clearness and profound depth, and on the still evenings of the Indian summer its surface forms a...
类别：儿童英文小说 作者： Robert Michael Ballantyne
简介： The man wore the leathern coat and leggings of a North American hunter, or trapper, or backwoodsman; and well did he deserve all these titles, for Jasper Derry was known to his friends as the best hunter, the most successful trapper, and the boldest...
类别：儿童英文小说 作者： Robert Michael Ballantyne
简介： Many a hearty cheer was given, many a kind wish was uttered, many a handkerchief was waved, and many a tearful eye gazed that day as the vessel left Old England, and steered her course into the unknown regions of the far north....
类别：儿童英文小说 作者： Robert Michael Ballantyne
简介： The extremely violent nature of the volcanic eruption in Krakatoa in 1883, the peculiar beauty of those parts of the eastern seas where the event occurred, the wide-spread influences of the accompanying phenomena, and the tremendous devastation which...
类别：儿童英文小说 作者： Robert Michael Ballantyne
简介： Every one has heard of those poniesthose shaggy, chubby, innocent-looking little creaturesfor which the world is indebted, we suppose, to Shetland....
类别：儿童英文小说 作者： Robert Michael Ballantyne
简介： In writing this book, my aim has been to give a true picture in outline of the Slave Trade as it exists at the present time on the east coast of Africa....
类别：儿童英文小说 作者： Robert Michael Ballantyne
简介： Necessity is the mother of invention. This is undoubtedly true, but it is equally true that invention is not the only member of necessitys large family. Change of scene and circumstance are also among her children. It was necessity that gave birth to...
类别：儿童英文小说 作者： Robert Michael Ballantyne
简介： My friend Lumley was particularly fond of warmth and of physical ease, yet he often expressed the opinion, with much emphasis, that there was nothing he enjoyed so much as a night in a snow-bed. Jack Lumley was my chuma fine manly fellow with a vigor...
类别：儿童英文小说 作者： Robert Michael Ballantyne
简介： At first there were few things, apparently, that did seem to his infant mind desirable, for his earliest days were marked by a sort of chronic crossness that seemed quite unaccountable in one so healthy; but this was eventually traced to the influenc...
