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The Treasure of Pearls: A Romance of Adventures in California

Gustave Aimard

  • Adventure
  • Book language: English
  • 200 pages

An adventure novel by Gustave Aimard set in Mexican Sonora and California, near the Gulf of California. It follows a perilous search for a pearl treasure amid pirates, divers and Apache dangers. Worth listening for its brisk frontier atmosphere and classic romance of pursuit.

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THE TREASURE OF PEARLS
A Romance of Adventures in California
BY
GUSTAVE AIMARD
AUTHOR OF "RED TRACK," "ADVENTURERS," "PEARL OF THE
ANDES"
"TRAIL HUNTER," "PIRATES OF THE PRAIRIE," &C, &C.
LONDON: J. and R. MAXWELL
MILTON HOUSE, 4, SHOE LANE E. C.
GEORGE VICKERS, ANGEL COURT, STRAND
AND ALL BOOKSELLERS
(From the Collected Works 1863-1885)
CONTENTS.
I. THE PIECES AND THE BOARD
II. ENVY NO MAN HIS GRAVE
III. THE PIRATE'S BEQUEST

IV. A DESERT MYSTERY

V. THE GODSEND

VI. ANY PORT IN A STORM

VII. A WAKING NIGHTMARE

VIII. "THE LITTLE JOKER"

IX. THE WAY LAYERS

X. THE PEARL DIVER'S PRICE

XI. THE TWO CAPTAINS OF THE "GOLETA"

XII. THE ROUT COMPLETE

XIII. INTERVENTION

XIV. THE HAUL OF MILLIONS

XV. THE PATHFINDER'S HONOUR

XVI. A HAVEN WORSE THAN THE STORM

XVII. THE PUREST OF PEARLS

XVIII. OUT AND AWAY

XIX. THE OLD, OLD FRIENDS

XX. THE ANGELITO

XXI. THE LANCERS' CHARGE

XXII. THE PACT OF BLOOD

XXIII. CANNON IS BROUGHT TO BEAR

XXIV. THE UNWILLING VOLUNTEER

XXV. THE LOYALTY OF THE APACHE

XXVI. THE HARVEST OF THE KNIFE

XXVII. THE TRUE CABALLERO

XXVIII. THE BEST BAIT TO CATCH APACHES

CHAPTER I.

THE PIECES AND THE BOARD.

We stand on Mexican soil. We are on the seaward skirt of its westernmost State of Sonora, in the wild lands almost washed by the

Californian Gulf, which will be the formidable last ditch of the unconquerable red men flying before the Star of the Empire.

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Contents

  1. THE TREASURE OF PEARLS
  2. A Romance of Adventures in California
  3. GUSTAVE AIMARD
  4. THE FULL PROJECT GUTENBERG™ LICENSE

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