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...
类别：儿童英文小说 作者： Robert Michael Ballantyne
简介： It is almost allowable, I think, to say that this is a true story, for fiction has only been introduced for the purpose of piecing together and making a symmetrical whole of a number of most interesting facts in regard to Madagascar and the terrible...
类别：儿童英文小说 作者： Robert Michael Ballantyne
简介： Roving has always been, and still is, my ruling passion, the joy of my heart, the very sunshine of my existence. In childhood, in boyhood, and in mans estate I have been a rover; not a mere rambler among the woody glens and upon the hill-tops of my o...
