A collection of adventure stories by Edward Everett Hale, presented as first-person accounts by travelers and adventurers. The tales range across journeys and encounters in distant lands, opening with a piece about the Great Chan of Cathay at table. It offers varied, old-fashioned storytelling for listeners who enjoy exploration and discovery.
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Opening of the book
THE GREAT CHAN OF CATHAY AT TABLE
title page Stories of Adventure As told by Adventurers By Edward E. Hale New edition, revised, with illustrations Boston Little, Brown, and Company 1905
Copyright, 1881, BY ROBERTS BROTHERS. Copyright, 1904, BY LITTLE, BROWN, AND COMPANY. UNIVERSITY PRESS CAMBRIDGE, U.S.A.
PREFACE.
TƒƗǪ volume, like the four others in the same series, was suggested at the Librarians’ Congress in Boston. It has been prepared in the wish to teach boys and girls how to use themselves the treasures, now at their hands, in public libraries. The public spirit, the munificence often, with which these libraries have been sustained ought to be loyally followed up by the friends of young people by careful effort to give them good habits in finding and enjoying the books they contain. It is not reasonable to throw on the librarians the work of introducing these books to young readers; but it is the duty of all those who are in any way charged with the interests of education to show to such readers how they can choose for themselves.
It will be seen, therefore, that my object is not to rewrite the tales of adventure, here referred to, nor is it my wish to present them in such form as to satisfy the reader. Rather I have hoped that he may not be satisfied. I should be glad, as Sam Weller was, to make him wish for more, trusting that then, like Oliver Twist, he may go and ask for more.
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