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Across India: A Classic Boys' Adventure in the Far East
Paperback
ISBN13: 9781627555517
Publisher: Black Curtain Press
Published: Jan 14 2014
Pages: 198
Weight: 0.65
Height: 0.45 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Across India is a lively nineteenth-century juvenile adventure of travel, exploration, and discovery in the Far East by Oliver Optic, one of the most popular American writers for young readers of his era. Part of the All Over the World Library, the story follows Louis Belgrave and his companions aboard the steam-yacht Guardian-Mother as their travels bring them into contact with the landscapes, cities, customs, and history of India.
Like many classic boys' adventure books of its period, Across India combines travel narrative, moral instruction, geography, excitement, and the pleasures of faraway places seen through the eyes of young protagonists. The book reflects the attitudes and assumptions of its nineteenth-century moment, but it also preserves the educational-adventure style that made Oliver Optic a major name in juvenile fiction. The journey gives readers a period view of India as imagined for American youth: exotic, instructive, dangerous, and full of story.
Readers interested in classic juvenile fiction, boys' adventure stories, travel fiction, nineteenth-century children's books, and historical adventure will find Across India a useful example of the global travel series that once filled school, home, and library shelves. It belongs to the same broad tradition of adventure reading that taught geography, conduct, courage, and curiosity through stories of movement across the wider world.
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