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Aileen Aroon, A MemoirGordon Stables Aileen Aroon, A Memoir With other Tales of Faithful Friends and Favourites Preface Prefaces are not always necessary; but when an author has either to acknowledge a courtesy, or to make an apology, then a preface becomes a duty. I have to do both.Firstly, then...

Courage, True Hearts: Sailing in Search of FortuneStables Gordon Courage, True Hearts: Sailing in Search of Fortune BOOK I IN SCOTTISH WILDS AND LONDON STREETS CHAPTER I. – HOPE TOLD A FLATTERING TALE Had you been in the beautiful and wild forest of Glenvoie on that bright and blue-skied Septembe...

Born to Wander: A Boy's Book of Nomadic AdventuresStables Gordon Born to Wander: A Boy's Book of Nomadic Adventures Book One – Chapter One Grayling House, and the Wildery around it “It was, I ween, a lovely spot of ground,Half-prankt with spring with sommer half imbrowned.” Scene: An old baronial...

O'er Many Lands, on Many SeasGordon Stables O'er Many Lands, on Many Seas Chapter One “And I have loved thee, Ocean! and my joyOf youthful sports was on thy breast to beBorne, like thy bubbles, onward; from a boyI wantoned with thy breakers – they to meWere a delight…For I was, as it were, a chil...

In the Land of the Great Snow Bear: A Tale of Love and HeroismStables Gordon In the Land of the Great Snow Bear: A Tale of Love and Heroism Chapter One Dunallan Towers Even in the days of his boyhood – I had almost said infancy – there seems to have been much in the character and habits of Claude...

Wild Adventures in Wild PlacesChapter One. Part I – The Moors and Fens of England. In the Depths of the Forest – Frank and his Toad – A Day with the Hounds – The Furies’ Leap – “That Fox was my Fate.”Chapter Two. Frank undergoes the Process of “Hardening Off” – Camp-life on the Banks of the Thame...

Turkish and Other Baths: A Guide to Good Health and LongevityGordon Stables Turkish and Other Baths: A Guide to Good Health and Longevity Preface No apology surely is needed for a work like this, and its preface need be but brief. Small is the book, in size little more than a pamphlet; yet mayhap...

The Cruise of the Snowbird: A Story of Arctic AdventureStables Gordon The Cruise of the Snowbird: A Story of Arctic Adventure Chapter One The Young Chief of Arrandoon – The Rising Storm – Lost in the Snow It was winter. Allan McGregor stood, gun in hand, leaning against a rock half-way down the m...

The Island of Gold: A Sailor's YarnStables Gordon The Island of Gold: A Sailor's Yarn Book One – Chapter One. Two Mitherless Bairns Ransey Tansey was up much earlier than usual on this particular morning, because father was coming home, and there was a good deal to do.As he crawled out of his bed...

Wild Life in the Land of the Giants: A Tale of Two BrothersChapter One. Book I – Our Home by the Sea. The Old Home by the Sea – Aunt SerapheemaChapter Two. While Walking on the Sea-BeachChapter Three. The Story of a Shipwreck – A Mystery – The Fate of Poor JoeChapter Four. The Sound of War – Firs...