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  • Paul Gerrard (Esprios Classics)
    W. H. G. Kingston / WHGKingston
    William Henry Giles Kingston (28 February 1814 - 5 August 1880), often credited as W. H. G. Kingston, was an English writer of boys’ adventure novels. His first book The Circassian Chief appeared in 1844. His first book for boys Peter the Whaler was published in 1851 and had such success that he retired from business and devoted himself entirely to the production of this kind o...
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    24,43 €

  • The Mysterious Island
    Jules Verne / W. H. G. Kingston / WHGKingston
    First published in 1874, "The Mysterious Island" is French author Jules Verne’s exciting adventure which begins amidst the siege on Richmond, Virginia, during the American Civil War. Five northern prisoners plan an unconventional escape by hijacking a hot air balloon. What is in store for them is more than they bargained for. Cyrus Harding, an engineer in the union army; his se...
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    17,93 €

  • Ned Garth - Made Prisoner in Africa
    W. H. G. Kingston / WHGKingston
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    8,43 €

  • The Two Supercargoes
    W. H. G. Kingston / WHGKingston
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    10,10 €

  • The African Trader
    W. H. G. Kingston / WHGKingston
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    5,52 €

  • Victoria’s Blue Jackets & Marines
    G. A. Henty / GAHenty / W. H. G. Kingston / WHGKingston / William H. G. Kingston / William HGKingston
    Vignettes from many engagements of the Victorian Royal NavyFor many, the great age of sail, typified by Nelson and his Royal Navy was the finest hour of British sea power. In its struggle with Napoleonic France it fought its greatest battles, brought to ruin its greatest foe and finally did rule the waves. The issue, perhaps, for those interested in naval warfare is that a navy...
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    22,12 €

  • Victoria’s Blue Jackets & Marines
    G. A. Henty / GAHenty / W. H. G. Kingston / WHGKingston
    Vignettes from many engagements of the Victorian Royal NavyFor many, the great age of sail, typified by Nelson and his Royal Navy was the finest hour of British sea power. In its struggle with Napoleonic France it fought its greatest battles, brought to ruin its greatest foe and finally did rule the waves. The issue, perhaps, for those interested in naval warfare is that a navy...
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    33,99 €

  • The Boy’s Own Book of Boats - Including Vessels of Every Rig and Size to be Found Floating on the Waters in All Parts of the World - Together with Complete Instructions How to Make Sailing Models
    W. H. G. Kingston / WHGKingston / William H. G. Kingston / William HGKingston
    This vintage book is a complete guide to the boats and ships of the nineteenth century, with information on vessels of every rig and size to be found in waters the world over. With a wealth of interesting historical information as well as complete instructions on making sailing models, this volume is highly recommended for those with a keen interest in maritime history, and wou...
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    54,74 €

  • The Boy’s Own Book of Boats - Including Vessels of Every Rig and Size to be Found Floating on the Waters in All Parts of the World - Together with Complete Instructions How to Make Sailing Models
    W. H. G. Kingston / WHGKingston / William H. G. Kingston / William HGKingston
    This vintage book is a complete guide to the boats and ships of the nineteenth century, with information on vessels of every rig and size to be found in waters the world over. With a wealth of interesting historical information as well as complete instructions on making sailing models, this volume is highly recommended for those with a keen interest in maritime history, and wo...
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    35,34 €

  • The Mysterious Island Abandoned (1875)
    Jules Verne / W. H. G. Kingston / WHGKingston
    This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world’s literature in affordable, high quality, modern edit...
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    26,74 €

  • Ben Hadden
    W. H. G. Kingston / WHGKingston / William H. G. Kingston / William HGKingston
    On the east coast of England, there is a small hamlet surrounded by high sand-hills, with scarcely a blade of grass or even a low shrub to be seen in its neighbourhood. The only vegetable productions, indeed, which can flourish in that light soil, are the pale green rushes, whose roots serve to bind the sand together, and to prevent the high easterly winds, so constantly blowin...
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    25,65 €

  • Ben Hadden
    W. H. G. Kingston / WHGKingston / William H. G. Kingston / William HGKingston
    On the east coast of England, there is a small hamlet surrounded by high sand-hills, with scarcely a blade of grass or even a low shrub to be seen in its neighbourhood. The only vegetable productions, indeed, which can flourish in that light soil, are the pale green rushes, whose roots serve to bind the sand together, and to prevent the high easterly winds, so constantly blowin...
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    20,24 €

  • Kidnapping In The Pacific
    W. H. G. Kingston / WHGKingston
    Kidnapping In The Pacific: Or The Adventures Of Boas Ringdon, A Long Yarn In Four Lengths (1879) is a novel written by W. H. G. Kingston. The book follows the story of Boas Ringdon, a young sailor who finds himself kidnapped by a group of ruthless pirates while on a voyage in the Pacific. Boas is taken captive and forced to work aboard the pirate ship, enduring numerous trials ...
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    29,05 €

  • The Gilpins and Their Fortunes
    W. H. G. Kingston / WHGKingston / William H. G. Kingston / William HGKingston
    Andrew Bedient, at the age of seventeen, in a single afternoon,-indeed, in one moment of a single afternoon,-performed an action which brought him financial abundance for his mature years. Although this narrative less concerns the boy Bedient than the man as he approaches twice seventeen, the action is worthy of account, beyond the riches that it brought, because it seems to dr...
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    31,06 €

  • The Cruise of the Dainty
    W. H. G. Kingston / WHGKingston / William H. G. Kingston / William HGKingston
    Not far from the broad and slow-flowing river Meuse stands the town of Brill. Flanders, in which it is found, formed at the period to which we refer a province of the dominions belonging to Philip of Spain. It was ruled with no very paternal hand by the Duke of Alva, who resided chiefly at Brussels. He had been employed for several years in burning, hanging, drowning, and cutti...
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    30,93 €

  • The Ferryman of Brill
    W. H. G. Kingston / WHGKingston / William H. G. Kingston / William HGKingston
    A party of travellers were wending their way across a wide-spreading prairie in the north-west territory of America. As far as the eye could reach, the ground was covered with waving tufts of dark-green grass, interspersed with flowers of varied hue, among which could be distinguished the yellow marigold and lilac bergamot, with bluebells, hare-bells, and asters, innumerable; w...
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    31,06 €

  • The Frontier Fort
    W. H. G. Kingston / WHGKingston / William H. G. Kingston / William HGKingston
    Arthur Gilpin and Mark Withers walked down the High Street, arm-in-arm, on their return to their respective homes from the well-managed school of Wallington. They were among the head boys, and were on the point of leaving it to enter on the work of active life, and make their way in the world. They had often of late discussed the important question-all-important, as it see...
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    31,01 €

  • The Ferryman of Brill
    H. G. Kingston W. H. G. Kingston / HGKingston WHGKingston
    Not far from the broad and slow-flowing river Meuse stands the town of Brill. Flanders, in which it is found, formed at the period to which we refer a province of the dominions belonging to Philip of Spain. It was ruled with no very paternal hand by the Duke of Alva, who resided chiefly at Brussels. He had been employed for several years in burning, hanging, drowning, and cutti...
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    34,80 €

  • The Frontier Fort
    H. G. Kingston W. H. G. Kingston / HGKingston WHGKingston
    A party of travellers were wending their way across a wide-spreading prairie in the north-west territory of America. As far as the eye could reach, the ground was covered with waving tufts of dark-green grass, interspersed with flowers of varied hue, among which could be distinguished the yellow marigold and lilac bergamot, with bluebells, hare-bells, and asters, innumerable; w...
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    34,75 €

  • The Gilpins and Their Fortunes
    H. G. Kingston W. H. G. Kingston / HGKingston WHGKingston
    Arthur Gilpin and Mark Withers walked down the High Street, arm-in-arm, on their return to their respective homes from the well-managed school of Wallington. They were among the head boys, and were on the point of leaving it to enter on the work of active life, and make their way in the world. They had often of late discussed the important question-all-important, as it see...
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    34,80 €

  • Paul Gerrard
    H. G. Kingston W. H. G. Kingston / HGKingston WHGKingston
    Darkness had set in. The wind was blowing strong from the southwest, with a fine, wetting, penetrating rain, which even tarpaulins, or the thickest of Flushing coats, would scarcely resist. A heavy sea also was running, such as is often to be met with in the chops of the British Channel during the month of November, at which time of the year, in the latter part of the last cent...
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    34,14 €

  • The Cruise of the Dainty
    H. G. Kingston W. H. G. Kingston / HGKingston WHGKingston
    Never was bothered with a more thorough calm! exclaimed my brother Harry, not for the first time that morning, as he and I, in spite of the sweltering heat, paced the deck of our tight little schooner the Dainty, then floating motionless on the smooth bosom of the broad Pacific. The empty sails hung idly from the yards. The dog-vanes imitated their example. Not the tiniest wave...
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    34,66 €

  • Voyages And Travels Of Count Funnibos And Baron Stilkin
    W. H. G. Kingston / WHGKingston
    This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world’s literature in affordable, high quality, modern edit...
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    32,22 €

  • Captain Mugford
    H. G. Kingston W. H. G. Kingston / HGKingston WHGKingston
    We belong to a Cornish family of the greatest respectability and high antiquity-so say the county records, in which we have every reason to place the most unbounded confidence. The Tregellins have possessed the same estate for I do not know exactly how lo ...
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    34,38 €

  • Charley Laurel
    H. G. Kingston W. H. G. Kingston / HGKingston WHGKingston
    A good many years ago, before, indeed, I can remember, His Majesty’s Ship Laurel, a corvette of eighteen guns and a hundred and thirty men, commanded by Captain Blunt, formed one of the West India squadron. She, with another corvette, and a brig in c ...
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    34,34 €

  • Fred Markham in Russia
    H. G. Kingston W. H. G. Kingston / HGKingston WHGKingston
    Thank you, thank you; it will be very delightful, said Fred Markham. 'It will be jolly, that it will!' exclaimed his younger brother Harry; and home they ran as fast as their legs could carry them to find their father and mother. 'Oh, father, fa ...
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    34,14 €

  • Adventures in Australia
    H. G. Kingston W. H. G. Kingston / HGKingston WHGKingston
    Some years ago two travellers, mounted on wiry yet strong looking steeds, were wending their way through a forest in Australia. They were both young and dressed much alike in broad-brimmed pith hats, loose red shirts, corduroy trousers and high boots with ...
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    34,72 €

  • Ben Burton
    H. G. Kingston W. H. G. Kingston / HGKingston WHGKingston
    Dick Burton, you’re a daddy! Polly’s been and got a baby for you, old boy! exclaimed several voices, as the said Dick mounted the side of the old 'Boreas,' on the books of which ship he was rated as a quarter-master, he having just then returned from a pl ...
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    34,26 €

  • In the Rocky Mountains
    H. G. Kingston W. H. G. Kingston / HGKingston WHGKingston
    We were most of us seated round a blazing fire of pine logs, which crackled away merrily, sending the sparks about in all directions, at the no small risk of setting fire to garments of a lighter texture than ours. Although the flowers were blooming on th ...
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    34,34 €

  • The Cruise of the Mary Rose
    H. G. Kingston W. H. G. Kingston / HGKingston WHGKingston
    My family had for centuries owned the same estate, handed down from father to son undiminished in size, and much increased in value. I believe there had been among them in past generations those who feared the Lord. I know that my father was a man of true ...
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    34,21 €


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