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...
类别：儿童英文小说 作者： 未知
简介： By the early light of a bright summer morning, long, long ago, two small boats were seen to issue from one of the fiords or firths on the west coast of Norway, and row towards the skerries or low rocky islets that lay about a mile distant from the ma...
类别：儿童英文小说 作者： Robert Michael Ballantyne
简介： It was five oclock in the afternoon. There can be no doubt whatever as to that. Old Agnes may say what she pleasesshe has a habit of doing sobut I know for certain (because I looked at my watch not ten minutes before it happened) that it was exactly...
