In the annals of the Wild West, no greater stories have ever been written than the "Luck of Roaring Camp" and "The Outcasts of Poker Flat". These magnificent and thrilling stories by Bret Harte, America's immortal master story-teller combine to make "Western Stories" an outstanding reading adventure.
The Master of Ballantrae: A Winter's Tale is a book by the Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson, focusing upon the conflict between two brothers, Scottish noblemen whose family is torn apart by the Jacobite rising of 1745.
Having been born in the seafaring town of Salem, Massachusetts, I, Ben Lathrop, had as my life's ambition the desire to ship before the mast. I was a lad of sixteen when in the year 1809, my took me to see his good friend, Captain Joseph Whidden, the master of a ship called The Island Princess.