The Battery and the Boiler
类别：儿童英文小说 作者： Robert Michael Ballantyne
简介： Somewhere about the middle of this nineteenth century, a baby boy was born on the raging sea in the midst of a howling tempest. That boy was the hero of this tale....
类别：儿童英文小说 作者： Robert Michael Ballantyne
简介： Somewhere about the middle of this nineteenth century, a baby boy was born on the raging sea in the midst of a howling tempest. That boy was the hero of this tale....
类别：儿童英文小说 作者： Robert Michael Ballantyne
简介： Mr John Sudberry was a successful London merchant. He was also a fat little man. Moreover, he was a sturdy little man, wore spectacles, and had a smooth bald head, over which, at the time we introduce him to the reader, fifty summers had passed, with...
类别：儿童英文小说 作者： Robert Michael Ballantyne
简介： There are few things in this world that have filled me with so much astonishment as the fact that man can kill a whale! That a fish, more than sixty feet long, and thirty feet round the body; with the bulk of three hundred fat oxen rolled into one; w...
类别：儿童英文小说 作者： Robert Michael Ballantyne
简介： To some minds solitude is depressing, to others it is congenial. It was the former to our friend John Robinson; yet he had a large share of it in his chequered life. Johnmore familiarly known as Jackwas as romantic as his name was the reverse. To loo...
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....