The Lighthouse
类别:儿童英文小说 作者: Robert Michael Ballantyne
简介: Early on a summer morning, about the beginning of the nineteenth century, two fishermen of Forfarshire wended their way to the shore, launched their boat, and put off to sea....
类别:儿童英文小说 作者: Robert Michael Ballantyne
简介: Early on a summer morning, about the beginning of the nineteenth century, two fishermen of Forfarshire wended their way to the shore, launched their boat, and put off to sea....
类别:儿童英文小说 作者: Robert Michael Ballantyne
简介: Davy was a fisher boy; and Davy was a very active little boy; and Davy wanted to go to sea. His father was a fisherman, his grandfather had been a fisherman, and his great-grandfather had been a fisherman: so we need not wonder much that little Davy...
类别:儿童英文小说 作者: Robert Michael Ballantyne
简介: Wet, worn and wearywith water squeaking in his boots, and a mixture of charcoal and water streaking his face to such an extent that, as a comrade asserted, his own mother would not have known hima stout young man walked smartly one morning through th...
类别:儿童英文小说 作者: Robert Michael Ballantyne
简介: He left an only son, Jeffrey, and an elder brother, Jacob, to mourn his loss. The son mourned for his father profoundly, for he loved him much. The brother mourned him moderately, for he was a close-fisted, hard-hearted, stern man of the law, whose l...
类别:儿童英文小说 作者: Robert Michael Ballantyne
简介: Those who regard familiar objects in art and nature as mere matters of course, and do not trouble themselves to wander out of the beaten track of everyday thought, may not at first feel the force or admit the truth of this statement. Let such folk en...
类别:儿童英文小说 作者: 未知
简介: With rough pilot coat and sou-wester, scarred and tarred hands, easy, rolling gait, and boots from heel to hip, with inch-thick soles, like those of a dramatic buccaneer, he bore as little resemblance to the popular idea of a lace-coated, brass-butto...
类别:儿童英文小说 作者: Robert Michael Ballantyne
简介: On a profoundly calm and most beautiful evening towards the end of the last century, a ship lay becalmed on the fair bosom of the Pacific Ocean....
类别:儿童英文小说 作者: 未知
简介: There is a voice in the waters of the great sea. It calls to man continually. Sometimes it thunders in the tempest, when the waves leap high and strong and the wild winds shriek and roar, as if to force our attention. Sometimes it whispers in the cal...
类别:儿童英文小说 作者: Robert Michael Ballantyne
简介: There is a vast amount of interesting information, on almost all subjects, which many people, especially the young, cannot attain to because of the expense, and, in some instances, the rarity of the books in which it is contained....
类别:儿童英文小说 作者: Robert Michael Ballantyne
简介: I possess a doggienot a dog, observe, but a doggie. If he had been a dog I would not have presumed to intrude him on your notice. A dog is all very well in his wayone of the noblest of animals, I admit, and pre-eminently fitted to be the companion of...