Henry Carter Hull

From WorldCat: "In 1860, with both parents dead, sixteen-year-old Tom, anxious to find a way to care for his sisters, begins a two-year adventure of danger and exploration when he leaves his native England to join his Uncle Harry and seek his fortune in the Rocky Mountain wilderness of Colorado." From the Preface: "The marvellous canyons of the Colorado River extend through a country absolutely bare and waterless, and save the tales told by a few...

A steamer wrecks off the coast of Brittany and fate works to reunite a family. -Amazon description.

William Pitt Scargill (1787-1836) was a Unitarian minister and novelist. This is the initial volume in a 3-volume novel which satirizes the upper classes, their manners, and legal system in pre-Victorian England.

Zululand is a wild region of mountain ranges, deep valleys and gorges, roaring torrents, rapidly flowing rivers, plains covered with mimosa bushes, meadows where cattle pasture and grow fat, and level plateaux extending for many miles across it, several hundred feet above the level of the ocean; while scattered here and there, in some parts pretty thickly, are to be seen the kraals or villages and the mealy grounds of the natives. Wild as is the country,...

The farms, however, were let before the Christmas of 1818; and Mr. Elsee requested Mr. Driver to inform the gentleman who had taken them, and had entered upon that of Hall, that Mr. Elsee was desirous of letting him have possession of the other, and to sell him any thing upon the premises, whenever it would suit him.

Roberta Marsden, or Lil Missus, as the negroes called her, for the opening of my story dates back several years before the Civil War began, lived on a country place in Kentucky. She was a beautiful child, and despite a few foibles that all flesh is heir to, such a really lovable one that she was fairly worshiped by mother, aunt and uncle, and every one of the negroes, from old Caleb, the testy and ancient coachman, to the veriest pickaninny, who thought...

British author Stanley J. Weyman rose to literary fame with a series of swashbuckling adventure tales. Over time, Weyman bridled against the constraints of that genre and began to explore other settings. The novel Starvecrow Farm is one of a series of domestic dramas that Weyman penned in a mid-career change of direction. Fans of novels about English country life will love this finely wrought rural romance.

'Yes, and such a wilderness of game! My word for it, you would like it out there. The fat deer scamper from thicket and opening; foxes and wolves, and bears are plenty; wild turkeys romp and fly in flocks; wild ducks dip and skim like swallows on the lakes; trout and sturgeon, lusty and sweet; Indians good-natured as the yellow sun:—and such hunts as I've had there!—I tell you what, Matthew, they would cure you pretty quick of being homesick;...

'Nat, where have you been?' 'Been fishing,' answered the boy addressed, a sturdy youth of sixteen, with clear blue eyes and sandy hair. 'Fishin'? And who said you could go fishin'?' demanded Abner Balberry, in his high, nervous voice. 'Nobody said I could go,' answered the boy, firmly. 'But I thought you'd all like to have some fish for supper, so I went.'

A collection of stories, including "At the Mermaid," "At the Queen's Palace," "A Christmas Carol of the Olden Time."