The Great White Queen: a Tale of Treasure and Treason |
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Author:
| Le Queux, William |
ISBN: | 978-1-5029-4715-4 |
Publication Date: | Dec 2014 |
Publisher: | CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
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Book Format: | Paperback |
List Price: | USD $7.49 |
Book Description:
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It is a curious story, full of exciting adventures, extraordinary discoveries, and mysteries amazing.Strange, too, that I, Richard Scarsmere, who, when at school hated geography as bitterly as I did algebraic problems, should even now, while just out of my teens, be thus enabled to write down this record of a perilous journey through a land known only by name to geographers, a vast region wherein no stranger had ever before set foot.The face of the earth is well explored now-a-days,...
More DescriptionIt is a curious story, full of exciting adventures, extraordinary discoveries, and mysteries amazing.Strange, too, that I, Richard Scarsmere, who, when at school hated geography as bitterly as I did algebraic problems, should even now, while just out of my teens, be thus enabled to write down this record of a perilous journey through a land known only by name to geographers, a vast region wherein no stranger had ever before set foot.The face of the earth is well explored now-a-days, yet it has remained for me to discover and traverse one of the very few unknown countries, and to give the bald-headed old fogies of the Royal Geographical Society a lesson in the science that I once abominated.