Kevin McAsh
33 books
Action & Adventure
1.1K
George MacDonald - At the Back of the North Wind
Diamond the little boy sleeps in the hayloft above the stall of Diamond the horse. The loft is snug but drafty, and after plugging a hole in the wall one night, Diamond is scolded by the beautiful Lady North Wind for...
8 hours 57 minutes
*Non-fiction
1K
Frank R. Stockton - Buccaneers and Pirates of Our Coasts
Buccaneers is non-fiction, a highly readable history of how piracy began and spread throughout the region in response to the plundering of Spanish colonialism. It is written with great flair for the dramatic by the...
7 hours 15 minutes
Early Modern
749
Thomas Guthrie Marquis - Chronicles of Canada Volume 04 - Jesuit Missions: A Chronicle of the Cross in the Wilderness
These little books were designed to cover Canadian history in a scholarly and readable fashion. This volume, as suggested in the title, folows the Jesuit missionaries through North America as they attempt, with little...
3 hours 9 minutes
Early Modern
902
Charles W. Colby - Chronicles of Canada Volume 03 - Founder of New France: A Chronicle of Champlain
For Canada, Champlain is not alone a heroic explorer of the seventeenth century, but the founder of Quebec; and it is a rich part of our heritage that he founded New France in the spirit of unselfishness, of loyalty,...
3 hours 4 minutes