The Circus Boys on the Flying Rings
Category: Author:Edgar B. P. Darlington
Circus Boys Series. by Edgar B. P. Darlington
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Category: Author:Edgar B. P. Darlington
Circus Boys Series. by Edgar B. P. Darlington
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Category: Author:G. K. Chesterton
The Flying Inn is the most rambunctious of Chesterton's novels, a rollicking ramble through the heart of merry England.
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Category: Author:novel
The young Seminole chief spoke from the rear cockpit of Bill Bolton’s two-seater amphibian, into the transmitter of his headphone set. Bright August sunshine painted a calm Atlantic brilliant blue two thousand feet below the speeding airplane.
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Category: Author:Edward S. Ellis
HARVEY HAMILTON, the young aviator, found himself in the most distressful dilemma of his life. He and his devoted friend, the colored youth Bohunkus Johnson, had left their homes near the New Jersey village of Mootsport, and sailing away in the former’s aeroplane had run into a series of adventures in eastern Pennsylvania, which have ...
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Category: Author:novel
I have trod many tangled jungles, explored the floors of innumerable oceans and braved death in so many forms that a man less magnificent than myself would have died of fright. But if there is one event that stands out in my perfect memory that can still raise a goosebump or two on my broad tanned shoulders, the event is when I went h...
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The author wishes to acknowledge her indebtedness to Mr. Glenn H. Curtiss and Mr. Wilbur Wright for courtesies extended during the preparation of this manuscript. These skillful and clever aviators, pioneers to whom the Art of Flying owes a colossal debt, do not laugh at any suggestion concerning the future of the aëroplane, for they r...
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Category: Author:novel
Tells briefly of the extraordinary episode which ended his service in the Flying Corps, and gives also a glimpse of his adventurous career. The reports in the American newspapers of the loss of Tom Slade, aviator, were read by his many admirers and friends with a sense of shock and with feelings of personal bereavement.
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Category: Author:novel
In sending forth another book belonging to the class known as religious novels, the author is moved to say a word to the critics who received a former one with so pleasant a mixture of praise and deprecation. As one of them frankly explained, \"they like a pill none the better for being sugar-coated.\" It is not necessary to remind the...
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Category: Author:novel
Jack Chadwick flung down the “alligator” wrench with which he had been going over every nut and bolt, and capered about the lofty, bare-raftered shed. Tom’s round face beamed, mirroring the other’s high good humor.
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Category: Author:novel
To the memory of My Brother, To the memory of Ignazio and Manfredi Lanza di Trabia, To the memory of All Our Dead, This tale of suffering and of war is dedicated
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