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The Golden Canyon
by
G.A. Henty
New York
Hurst & Company Publishers.
1899
Contents
The Golden Canyon.
Chapter
I. A Run Ashore
II. Dick's Escape
III. The Gold-Seekers
IV. More Plans
V. The Search For The Canyon
VI. The Map Again
VII. The Scarcity Of Water
VIII. The Golden Valley
IX. The Tree On The Peak
X. Watched
XI. Hard At Work
XII. Retreat
XIII. The Redskin
XIV. In The Ravine
XV. Rifle-Shots
XVI. On The Return
XVII. Conclusion
Contents
The Stone Chest.
Chapter
I. A Mystery Of The Storm
II. Off For Zaruth
III. Among The Icebergs
IV. The Escape From The Icebergs
V. The Arctic Island
VI. The Madman
VII. A Fearful Fall
VIII. A Remarkable Story
IX. The Volcano Of Ice
X. The Escape Of The "Dart"
XI. Among A Strange Foe
XII. Bob's Discovery
XIII. The Big Polar Bear
XIV. The Finding Of The Stone Chest
XV. Bob Rescues His Father—Conclusion
Publishers' Introduction
George Alfred Henty has been called "The Prince of Story-Tellers." Tocall him "The Boy's Own Historian" would perhaps be a more appropriatetitle, for time has proved that he is more than a story-teller; he is apreserver and propagator of history amongst boys.
How Mr. Henty has risen to be worthy of these enviable titles is a storywhich will doubtless possess some amount of interest for all hisreaders.
Henty may be said to have begun his preliminary training for hislife-work when a boy attending school at Westminster. Even then the germof his story-telling propensity seems to have evinced itself, for he wasalways awarded the highest marks in English composition.
From Westminster he went to Cambridge, where he was enrolled as astudent at Caius College. It is a decided change of scenery andcircumstances from Cambridge to the Crimea, but such was the changewhich took place in Mr. Henty's career at the age of twenty-one.
An appointment in connection with the commissariat department of theBritish army, took him from the scenes of student life into theexcitement of the Muscovite war.
Previous to this, however, he had written his first novel, which he hascharacterized as "Very bad, no doubt, and was, of course, neverpublished, but the plot was certainly a good one."
Whilst engaged with his duties at the Crimea he sent home severaldescriptive letters of the places, people, and circumstances passingunder his notice. His father, thinking some of those letters were ofmore than private interest, took a selection of them to the editor ofthe Morning Advertiser, who, after perusal of them