** "Popular Adventure Tales" by Captain Mayne Reid is a compilation of exciting adventure stories set in the 1800s that highlight exploration and survival. These tales follow young adventurers as they face the harsh wilderness, focusing on their growth and experiences as they tackle the challenges nature throws their way. Beginning with the "Boy Hunters," the stories take readers on a thrilling trip through North America's "Fur Countries," where characters navigate icy landscapes and dangerous wildlife. The book illustrates their ambitions, their backgrounds, their emotional state and desire to connect with their long-lost uncle, while they are exploring the wild. The tone speaks of a time of character growth and discovering one's self in exciting ways. **
Popular Adventure Tales
By Mayne Reid
** Young heroes venture into the dangerous wilderness to confront wild terrain and personal challenges, embarking on heart-pounding quests for survival and self-discovery.
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About the AuthorThomas Mayne Reid was a British novelist who fought in the Mexican–American War (1846–1848). His many works on American life describe colonial policy in the American colonies, the horrors of slave labour, and the lives of American Indians. "Captain" Reid wrote adventure novels akin to those by Frederick Marryat (1792-1848), and Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894). They were set mainly in the American West, Mexico, South Africa, the Himalayas, and Jamaica. He was an admirer of Lord Byron. His novel Quadroon (1856), an anti-slavery work, was later adapted as a play entitled The Octoroon (1859) by Dion Boucicault and produced in New York.
Thomas Mayne Reid was a British novelist who fought in the Mexican–American War (1846–1848). His many works on American life describe colonial policy in the American colonies, the horrors of slave labour, and the lives of American Indians. "Captain" Reid wrote adventure novels akin to those by Frederick Marryat (1792-1848), and Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894). They were set mainly in the American West, Mexico, South Africa, the Himalayas, and Jamaica. He was an admirer of Lord Byron. His novel Quadroon (1856), an anti-slavery work, was later adapted as a play entitled The Octoroon (1859) by Dion Boucicault and produced in New York.
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