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Title: A Chapter of Adventures

Author: G. A. Henty

Release Date: February 25, 2009 [EBook #28190]

Language: English

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A Chapter

of

Adventures

BY

G. A. HENTY

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BLACKIE AND SON LIMITED
LONDON GLASGOW AND BOMBAY

BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE

George Alfred Henty was born near Cambridge in 1832, and educated at
Westminster School and Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge. He
volunteered for service in the Crimean War, and after some varied
experiences adopted a journalistic career. He served as war
correspondent of the _Standard_ during the Austro-Italian campaign of
1866, and was afterwards a correspondent in the Abyssinian War, the
Franco-German War, the Ashanti War, &c. His first book for boys was
published in 1868, and was followed by a long and very successful
series, including _The Young Franc-Tireurs_ (1872), _In Times of Peril_
(1881), _Under Drake's Flag_ (1883), _With Clive in India_ (1884), _The
Lion of the North_ (1886), _Orange and Green_ (1888), _The Lion of St.
Mark_ (1889), _By Pike and Dyke_ (1890), _By Right of Conquest_ (1891),
_With Moore at Corunna_ (1898), _With Kitchener in the Soudan_ (1903),
and _With the Allies to Pekin_ (1904). He died in 1902.

CONTENTS.

CHAP. Page

I. A FISHING VILLAGE 5

II. CAUGHT BY THE TIDE 15

III. A RUN FROM HARWICH 27

IV. THE WRECK 37

V. THE RESCUE 46

VI. ALTERED PROSPECTS 57

VII. ON BOARD THE _WILD WAVE_ 69

VIII. ALEXANDRIA 78

IX. THE RIOT IN ALEXANDRIA