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In 1866, Professor Pierre M. Aronnax and his assistant Conseil, stranded in San Francisco by reports of a giant sea monster attacking ships in the Pacific Ocean, are invited to join an expedition to search for the creature. During the search, they and harpooner Ned Land are thrown overboard during an attack, eventually discovering that the supposed monster is actually a submarine piloted by the brilliant but haunted Captain Nemo. Rescued, they...

Death Valley Days - The Manly Trail" is the true story of William Lewis Manly and the pioneers he led through a life and death drama on their way to the gold fields of California in 1849. From the green fields of the Northern United States to the barren rocks, bare mountains and hot sands of an unnamed desert valley, the reader is transported and transfixed as history comes to life. How Death Valley got its name is revealed in all its tragedy ...

The Shackleton Expedition of 1921-22 was Sir Ernest Shackleton's last Antarctic voyage, and the final episode in the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration. His exploit is sometimes referred to as the "Quest Expedition" named after its ship, the Quest, a converted Norwegian seal-hunter. Shackleton died on board the ship, at the Antarctic island of South Georgia. This voyage follows his earlier expeditions, the Robert Falcon Scott's "Discovery Exp...

The story follows the experiences of a mongoose named Rikki-Tikki-Tavi after he becomes the pet of an English family residing in India. He becomes friendly with some of the other creatures inhabiting the garden and is warned of the cobras Nag and Nagaina, who are angered by the human family's presence in their territory.Accordingly, Nag enters the house's bathroom before dawn to kill the humans and make Rikki leave, so that their babies will g...

Unusual for a story in The Jungle Book, none of the action in "The White Seal" takes place in India. The story proper begins on an island in the Bering Sea between Russia and Alaska. The title character and protagonist, Kotick, is the first white seal ever to have been born on the island. When Kotick discovers that some of the seals on the island are killed by hunters for their skins every year, he sets off on a quest to find an island where s...

Scottish botanist James Macrae traveled with Lord Byron on HMS Blonde during its 1824-1825 voyage from England to the Hawaiian Islands. A primary purpose of the expedition was to return the bodies of King Kamehameha II (Liholiho) and Queen Kamamalu, both of whom had died of measles during a diplomatic visit to Britain. Macrae also brought plants to Hawai'i and made observations wherever he sailed. After almost three months in the islands, the ...

Songbirds And Their Stories" supplies a definite need. It is an introduction to bird life for adults and young readers. Filled with facts, poems, legends and stories, this book brings to life our feathered friends in all their uniqueness and splendor. Learn about their habits, feeding, nesting and so much more from actual observation and chronicles. Additional notes and images of birds, poets and authors by Larry W Jones will endear "Songbirds...

Journey into peril with "Sea Sagas - Perilous Voyages." Read all about twelve accounts of ill-fated ships in the age of sail. Follow in the wake of storms at sea, shipwrecks, loss of life and survivors who lived to tell the tales. Additional notes and images by Larry W Jones enhances the reality of men and women aboard the ships that sailed into history books.

Born in Virginia, Sam Houston moved to Tennessee with his mother and eight siblings after his father died when he was 13. He ran away in 1809 and spent nearly three years living with the Cherokee in eastern Tennessee. Houston learned to speak Cherokee and adopted their customs. He was given the Indian name Colonneh, or "the Raven." Houston went on to become a politician, warrior and president of the Republic Of Texas. His life with the Cheroke...

In Rawalpindi the Viceroy of India is due to receive a visit from the Amir of Afghanistan, and the story is set in a crowded camp full of men and their animals. The baggage camels are nervous creatures, and tend to stampede, and one wet night the narrator's tent is knocked over, and he has to take shelter under a gun. Various animals are nearby, mules, a camel, a cavalry charger, a pair of gun bullocks, and an elephant, all part of the army, a...

The Jungle Book - Mowgli's Brothers" is the first book in the 7-book series by Rudyard Kipling. Father Wolf (Rama) and Mother Wolf (Raksha), a pair of wolves raising a family of cubs, are furious to learn from Tabaqui the jackal that Shere Khan the lame tiger is hunting in their territory because he might kill men and bring human retribution upon the jungle. But when Father Wolf (Rama) hears something approaching their den, it turns out to be ...

The Jungle Book - Tiger! Tiger!" is the third in the series of seven books by Rudyard Kipling. At the end of the short story "Mowgli's Brothers", Mowgli, the boy raised by wolves, is cast out of the Wolf Pack and forced to leave the jungle. "Tiger! Tiger!" follows Mowgli's story as he enters a village and tries to learn to live among men. Mowgli learns the language quickly, but he has trouble adapting to village life. In the mean time, Mowgli ...

Young animal-lover Toomai faces a life of impoverished orphanhood after a vicious tiger mauls his father. Toomai finds comfort and friendship in the family's prized elephant, the gentle Kala Nag. But when Kala Nag attacks an abusive trainer in self-defense, the village decides the elephant must die. Toomai plots a daring rescue and sets off on a thrilling adventure through the jungles of India, in the hope of finding a mysterious and elusive h...

David "Davy" Crockett was an early 1800s folk hero, frontier woodsman, scout, soldier, and politician. Known as the "King of the Wild Frontier", he grew up poor and uneducated but ended up as a Congressman from Tennessee. He had a reputation for deer and bear hunting and storytelling. His active participation in the Creek War, part of the War Of 1812, saw fierce battles with the Creek Indians. This book, "Davy Crockett Of the Wild Frontier", i...

Daniel Boone On the Cumberland Trail" is true history written as a novel, thus entertaining to read while educating the reader about the pioneer beginnings of western movement by white settlers from the thirteen original colonies of the United States. History comes alive with the scouting of bounteous woodlands beyond the Cumberland Gap, conflicts with native American Indians, the Siege of Boonesborough, the Battle Of Point Pleasant and log ca...

Orphaned soon after birth, raised by his gandmother and uncle, he learned all the ways of the tree-dwelling Sioux. At age 4 his band was forced to flee into Canada across the wide Missouri in rawhide bull-boats, and later in northern Minnesota. Readers will be enthralled by this real-life saga of Ohiyesa from his birth to the age of fifteen, learning games and sports, scouting, hunting and becoming a responsible member of the Santee Sioux. Rea...

James "Jim" Bowie is a legendary hero in the history of early Texas, mainly due to his use of the "Bowie Knife" and his defence at the Alamo and subsequent death there. However, he is also a controversial figure, being an owner of slaves and an active businessman in the buying and selling of slaves in Louisiana and Texas. A convert to the Catholic faith and renouncing of American citizenship to become a citizen of Mexico was necessary to wed a...

The accounts in "Indian Ways Of Yore - Fables and Fact" focuses on Sioux bands of the Upper Midwest in early pre-reservation days. It uncovers the traditional life of the Sioux people, their customs, legends, warm family relations, reverence for animals, and struggle for survival. Included are factual historical figures like Little Crow and Tamahay, the one-eyed scout, and the real-life 1862 Sioux Uprising in Minnesota. Read about exciting int...

Ode To Toulee - From Gosling To Goose, is the true life story of a Toulouse Goose, raised from when it was three days old to adulthood. The account includes joys and sorrows and compassion learned by geese and the pretty lady who cared for them. Enjoy the lessons learned in caring for God's creation as you read Ode To Toulee - From Gosling To Goose.

Born in the deep woods of Minnesota, he was named Hakadah (Pitiful Last) when his mother died during childbirth. He was renamed Ohiyesa (Always Wins) after winning at Indian LaCross games. At fifteen his father, who had converted to the white man's way of life and taken the name Jacob Eastman, steered him into civilization. Ohiyesa - Charles Alexander Eastman was educated at Beloit, Knox, Dartmouth and Boston Colleges, the first Native America...