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The Young Forester – ebook
Zane Grey
This essay is often considered a children’s book, The Young Forester is following the young Kenneth, in his quest to become a forester. After he received his father’s permission to go west to work with a friend of childhood, Ken sees a devastating operation that cuts down the trees and leaves nothing behind. Throughout the text, Ken struggled with woodcutters to preserve the Penetrari Forest and the...Data dostępności:
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The Rainbow Trail – ebook
Zane Grey
Originally published in 1915, „The Rainbow Trail” is the sequel to „Riders of the Purple Sage”. At the end of that famous novel, a huge boulder had rolled down to shut off the entrance to Surprise Valley, leaving Lassiter, Jane Withersteen, and little Fay Larkin to a singular fate. Twelve years later a young, disillusioned, ex-preacher in Illinois, hears about the wonderful secret canyon where a couple...Data dostępności:
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The Last of the Plainsmen – ebook
Zane Grey
Unlike many of Grey’s fictional novels of the old west, this is an account of a trip made to the North Rim of the Grand Canyon about 1908, for the purpose of tracking and capturing mountain lions. Buffalo Jones was the last of the famous plainsmen who rode the trails of the old West. In a continuing quest to establish dominion over wild animals, Jones leads his men on a journey to capture untamed cougars...Data dostępności:
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The Lone Star Ranger – ebook
Zane Grey
„The Lone Star Ranger” is a 1915 Western novel by American author Zane Grey. Set in Texas, the story revolves around the exploits of a band of Texas Rangers and Buck Duane, an outlaw on a quest for redemption. A captain of the Texas Rangers offers him a pardon and a ranger’s badge if he will infiltrate the gang of the shadowy figure known as „Cheseldine” who wields vast power in West Texas, and make...Data dostępności:
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Tono-Bungay – ebook
Herbert George Wells
Considered one of Wells most successful attempts at a social novel in the vein of Charles Dickens and William Makepeace Thackeray, Wells’s tale is a panoramic view of an unravelling society. A semi-autobiographical satire of Edwardian advertising and patent-medicines. The story follows the life of a young man, George, and his Uncle Edward. Edward invents an elixir called TONO-BUNGAY and hires his nephew...Data dostępności:
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Treasure Island – ebook
Robert Louis Stevenson
The most popular pirate story ever written in English, featuring one of literature’s most beloved „bad guys,” Treasure Island has been happily devoured by several generations of boys–and girls–and grownups. Its unforgettable characters include: young Jim Hawkins, who finds himself owner of a map to Treasure Island , where the fabled pirate booty is buried; honest Captain Smollett, heroic Dr. Livesey,...Data dostępności:
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Krótka historia Stephena Hawkinga – ebook
Kitty Ferguson
Opowieść o kolejach losu i naukowych dociekaniach jednego z najbardziej niezwykłych, najwyżej cenionych i obdarzonych największym hartem ducha ludzi naszych czasów. Stephen Hawking jest jedną z najwybitniejszych postaci naszych czasów – geniusz z Cambridge, który zyskał międzynarodową sławę jako błyskotliwy fizyk teoretyk oraz stał się inspiracją i objawieniem dla tych, którzy byli świadkami jego...Data dostępności:
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Przygody młodego przyrodnika – ebook
David Attenborough
W 1954 roku młody prezenter telewizyjny David Attenborough otrzymał propozycję życia – miał podróżować po całym świecie w poszukiwaniu rzadkich, trudno osiągalnych zwierząt do kolekcji londyńskiego zoo oraz filmować swoje wyprawy na potrzeby nowego programu telewizji BBC pod tytułem "Zoo Quest" (Zoologiczne poszukiwania). Oto historia tych podróży. Podczas wędrówek w poszukiwaniu gujańskich mrówkojadów,...Data dostępności:
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The Count of Monte Cristo – ebook
Alexandre Dumas
Set against the turbulent years of the Napoleonic era, Alexandre Dumas’s thrilling adventure story is one of the most widely read romantic novels of all time, along with „The Three Musketeers”. The historical setting is a fundamental element of the book, an adventure story primarily concerned with themes of hope, justice, vengeance, mercy, and forgiveness. It centers on Edmond Dantès who is wrongfully...Data dostępności:
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The Patchwork Girl of Oz – ebook
L. Frank Baum
Ojo the Unlucky, a Munchkin boy raised in isolation in the Blue Forest by his taciturn Unc Nunkie, finds himself setting out on a quest through the wider world of Oz in this seventh entry in L. Frank Baum’s series about that magical country. The reader accompanies Ojo, the Glass Cat and the Patchwork Girl on a journey to find five magic items in the wonderful Land of Oz to restore to life Ojo’s Uncle...Data dostępności:
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