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Adrift in the Ice-Fields

Charles Winslow Hall

  • Adventure
  • Book language: English
  • 205 pages

An 1877 adventure novel by Charles Winslow Hall. English gentlemen winter in the maritime provinces, shooting sea-fowl on the ice and telling tales of local life. Four hunters later drift on the Gulf of St. Lawrence ice-pack, improvising shelter, food, and fire—an engaging mix of sport and survival.

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Adrift in the Ice-Fields.
frontis
Adrift.
Page 162.
BY
CAPT. CHARLES W. HALL,
AUTHOR OF "THE GREAT BONANZA," ETC.
ILLUSTRATED.
BOSTON:
LEE AND SHEPARD, PUBLISHERS.
NEW YORK:
CHARLES T. DILLINGHAM.
1877.
Copyright:
By LEE AND SHEPHARD.
1877.
PREFACE.
To open to the youth of America a knowledge of some of the
winter sports of our neighbors of the maritime provinces,
with their attendant pleasures, perils, successes, and
reverses, the following tale has been written.
It does not claim to teach any great moral lesson, or even

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Contents

  1. Adrift in the Ice-Fields.
  2. CAPT. CHARLES W. HALL,
  3. PREFACE.
  4. CONTENTS.
  5. ILLUSTRATIONS:
  6. CHAPTER I.
  7. CHAPTER II.
  8. CHAPTER III.
  9. CHAPTER IV.
  10. CHAPTER V.
  11. CHAPTER VI.
  12. CHAPTER VII.
  13. CHAPTER VIII.
  14. CHAPTER IX.
  15. CHAPTER X.
  16. CHAPTER XI.
  17. CHAPTER XII.
  18. CHAPTER XIII.
  19. CHAPTER XIV.
  20. CHAPTER XV.
  21. CHAPTER XVI.
  22. CHAPTER XVII.
  23. CHAPTER XVIII.
  24. CHAPTER XIX.
  25. CHAPTER XX.
  26. CHAPTER XXI.
  27. CHAPTER XXII.
  28. CHAPTER XXIII.
  29. THE FULL PROJECT GUTENBERG™ LICENSE

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