Stewart Edward White Books In Order

Andy Burnett Books In Order

  1. Ranchero (1943)

Novels

  1. The Westerners (1901)
  2. The Blazed Trail (1902)
  3. Conjuror’s House (1903)
  4. The Forest (1904)
  5. The Magic Forest (1904)
  6. The Mountains (1904)
  7. Camp and Trail (1906)
  8. The Pass (1906)
  9. The Mystery (1907)
  10. The Silent Places (1907)
  11. The Riverman (1908)
  12. The Rules of the Game (1910)
  13. The Adventures of Bobby Orde (1911)
  14. The Claim Jumpers (1911)
  15. The Sign At Six (1912)
  16. Gold (1913)
  17. The Grey Dawn (1915)
  18. The Leopard Woman (1916)
  19. Simba (1918)
  20. The Rose Dawn (1920)
  21. The Cabin (1922)
  22. On Tiptoe (1922)
  23. The Glory Hole (1924)
  24. Skookum Chuck (1925)
  25. Folded Hills (1934)
  26. The Long Rifle (1935)
  27. Across the Unknown (1939)
  28. The Call of the North (1941)
  29. Stampede (1942)

Omnibus

Collections

  1. Arizona Nights (1907)
  2. The Works of Steward Edward White (1917)
  3. The Killer and Other Stories (2005)

Non fiction

  1. The Land of Footprints (1913)
  2. African Camp Fires (1914)
  3. The Rediscovered Country (1915)
  4. The Forty-Niners (1918)
  5. Daniel Boone, Wilderness Scout (1926)
  6. Lions in the Path (1926)
  7. The Story of California (1932)
  8. Dog Days, Other Times, Other Dogs (1933)
  9. The Betty Book (1937)
  10. The Unobstructed Universe (1940)
  11. The Road I Know (1942)
  12. The Stars Are Still There (1946)
  13. With Folded Wings (1947)
  14. The Job of Living (1948)
  15. The Wilderness Traveler and Common Sense in the Wilderness (2005)

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Stewart Edward White Books Overview

The Blazed Trail

Stewart Edward White 1873 1946, an American author, was born in Grand Rapids, Michigan. He earned degrees from University of Michigan Ph. D., 1895; M. A., 1903. From about 1900 until about 1922, he wrote adventure travel books. Starting in 1922, He and his wife Elizabeth ‘Betty’ Grant White wrote numerous books they claimed were received through channelling with spirits. They also wrote of their travells around the state of California. His works include: The Claim Jumpers 1901, Conjuror’s House: A Romance of the Free Forest 1903, The Forest 1903, Blazed Trail Stories, and Stories of the Wild Life 1904, The Mountains 1904, The Silent Places 1904, Arizona Nights 1907, The Riverman 1908, The Rules of the Game 1910, The Land of Footprints 1912, The Sign at Six 1912, African Camp Fires 1913, The Gray Dawn 1915, The Leopard Woman 1916, The Forty Niners: A Chronicle of the California Trail and El Dorado 1918, and The Killer 1919.

Conjuror’s House

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The Forest

The Forest i THE CALLING The Red Gods make their medicine again.** SOME time in February, when the snow and sleet have shut out from the wearied mind even the memory of spring, the man of the woods generally receives his first inspiration. He may catch it from some companion’s chance remark, a glance at the map, a vague recollection of a dim-past conversation, or it may flash on him from the mere pronouncement of a name. The first faint thrill of discovery leaves him cool, but gradually, with the increasing enthusiasm of cogitation, the idea gains body, until finally it has grown to plan fit for discussion. Of these many quickening potencies of inspiration, the mere name of a place seems to strike deepest at the heart of romance. Color, mystery, the vastnesses of unexplored space are there, symbolized compactly for the aliment of imagination. It lures 3

Table of Contents

CONTENTS; I The Calling ; II The Science of Goino Light; III The Jumping-off Place; IV, On Making Camp; V, On Lying Awake at Night ; VI The ‘Lunge ; VII On Open-water Canoe Traveling; VIII The Stranded Strangers; IX On Flies; X Cloche ; XI The Habitants ; XII The River ; XIIL The Hills; XIV On Walking through the Woods; XV On Woods Indians; XVI On Woods Indians – continued; XVII The Catching of a Certain Fish; XVIII Man who walks by Moonlight XIX Apologia

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The Magic Forest

Stewart Edward White 1873 1946, an American author, was born in Grand Rapids, Michigan. He earned degrees from the University of Michigan Ph. D., 1895; M. A., 1903. From about 1900 until about 1922, he wrote adventure travel books. Starting in 1922, he and his wife Elizabeth ‘Betty’ Grant White wrote numerous books they claimed were received through channelling with spirits. They also wrote of their travels around the state of California. His works include: The Claim Jumpers 1901, Conjuror’s House: A Romance of the Free Forest 1903, The Forest 1903, Blazed Trail Stories, and Stories of the Wild Life 1904, The Mountains 1904, The Silent Places 1904, Arizona Nights 1907, The Riverman 1908, The Rules of the Game 1910, The Land of Footprints 1912, The Sign at Six 1912, African Camp Fires 1913, The Gray Dawn 1915, The Leopard Woman 1916, The Forty Niners: A Chronicle of the California Trail and El Dorado 1918, and The Killer 1919.

The Mountains

The author has followed a true sequence of events practically in all particulars save in respect to the character of the Tenderfoot. He is in one sense fictitious; in another sense real. He is real in that he is the apotheosis of many tenderfeet, and that everything he does in this narrative he has done at one time or another in the author’s experience. He is fictitious in the sense that he is in no way to be identified with the third member of our party in the actual trip.

Camp and Trail

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork. Table of ContentsChapter1 The Wilderness Traveller2 Common Sense in the Wilderness3 Personal Equiment4 Personal Equipment Continued5 Camp Outfit 6 The Cook Outfit7 Grub8 Camp Cookery9 Horse Outfits10 Horse Packs11 Horses, Mules, Burros12 Canoes Index

The Pass

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The Mystery

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www. million books. com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: VII THE FREE LANCE By the following afternoon Dr. Trendon reported his patient as quite recovered. ‘ Starved for water,’ proffered the surgeon. ‘ Tissues fairly dried out. Soaked him up. Fed him broth. Put him to sleep. He’s all right. Just wakes up to eat; then off again like a two year old. Wonderful constitution.’ ‘ The gentleman wants to know if he can come on deck, sir,’ saluted an orderly. ‘ Waked up, eh. Come on, Barnett. Help me boost him on deck.’ The two officers disappeared to return in a moment arm in arm with Ralph Slade. Nearly twenty four hours’ rest and skilful treatment had done wonders. He was still a trifle weak and uncertain, was still a little glad to lean on the arms of his companions, but his eye was bright and alert, and his hollow cheeks mounted a slight colour. This, with the clothes lent him by Barnett, transformed his appearance, and led Captain Parkinson to congratulate himself that he had not obeyed his first impulse to send the castaway forward with the men. The officers pressed forward. ‘ Mighty glad to see you out.’ ‘ Hope you’ve gotyour pins under you again.’ ‘ Old man, I’m mighty glad we came along.’ The chorus of greeting was hearty enough, but the journalist barely paid the courtesy of acknowledgment. His eye swept the horizon eagerly until it rested on the cloud of volcanic smoke billowing up across the setting sun. A sigh of relief escaped him. ‘ Where are we ? ‘ he asked Barnett. ‘ I mean since you picked me up. How long ago was that, anyway? ‘ ‘ Yesterday,’ replied the navigating officer. ‘ We’ve stood off and on, looking for some of our men.’ ‘ Then that’s the same volcano ‘ Barnett laughed softly. ‘ Well, they aren’t quite holding a caucus of volcanoes down in this country. One like that is enough.’…

The Silent Places

Stewart Edward White 1873 1946, an American author, was born in Grand Rapids, Michigan. He earned degrees from the University of Michigan Ph. D., 1895; M. A., 1903. From about 1900 until about 1922, he wrote adventure travel books. Starting in 1922, he and his wife Elizabeth ‘Betty’ Grant White wrote numerous books they claimed were received through channelling with spirits. They also wrote of their travels around the state of California. His works include: The Claim Jumpers 1901, Conjuror’s House: A Romance of the Free Forest 1903, The Forest 1903, Blazed Trail Stories, and Stories of the Wild Life 1904, The Mountains 1904, The Silent Places 1904, Arizona Nights 1907, The Riverman 1908, The Rules of the Game 1910, The Land of Footprints 1912, The Sign at Six 1912, African Camp Fires 1913, The Gray Dawn 1915, The Leopard Woman 1916, The Forty Niners: A Chronicle of the California Trail and El Dorado 1918, and The Killer 1919.

The Riverman

I THE time was the year 1872 , and the place a bend in the river above a long pond term ina ting in a dam. Beyond this dam, and on a flat lower than I it, stood a two story mill structure. Save for a small, stumpdotted dearing, and the road that led from it, all else was forest. Here in the bottom lands, following the course of the stream, the hardwoods grew dense, their uppermost branches just beginning to spray out in the first green of spring. Farther back, wh rc the hjgher lands arose from the swamp, could be discerned the graceful frond of white pines and hemlock, and the sturdy tops of Norways and spruce. A strong wind blew up the length of the pond. It ruf fled the surface of the water, swooping down in fan shaped, scurrying cat’s paws, turning the dark blue surface as one turns the nap of velvet. At the upper end of the pond it even succeeded in raisin quite respectable wavelets, which lap lap lap ped eagerly against a barrier of floating Jogs that filled About the Publisher Forgotten Books is a publisher of historical writings, such as: Philosophy, Classics, Science, Religion, History, Folklore and Mythology. Forgotten Books’ Classic Reprint Series utilizes the latest technology to regenerate facsimiles of historically important writings. Careful attention has been made to accurately preserve the original format of each page whilst digitally enhancing the difficult to read text. Read books online for free at www. forgottenbooks. org

The Rules of the Game

1910. The novel begins: Late one fall afternoon, in the year 1898, a train paused for a moment before crossing a bridge over a river. From it descended a heavyset, elderly man. The train immediately proceeded on its way. The heavyset man looked about him. The river and the bottom land growths of willow and hardwood were hemmed in, as far as he could see, by low wooded hills. Only the railroad bridge, the steep embankment of the right of way, and a small, painted, windowless structure next the water met his eye as the handiwork of man. The windowless structure was bleak, deserted and obviously locked by a strong padlock and hasp. Nevertheless, the man, throwing on his shoulder a canvas duffle bag with handles, made his way down the steep railway embankment, across a plank over the ditch, and to the edge of the water. Here he dropped his bag heavily, and looked about him with an air of comical dismay. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing.

The Adventures of Bobby Orde

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www. million books. com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Ill HIDE AND COOP Early Monday morning Bobby was afoot and on his way to the Ottawa Hotel. He ran fast until within a block of it; then unexpectedly his gait slackened to a walk, finally to a loiter. He became strangely reluctant, strangely bashful about approaching the place. This was not to be understood. Usually when he wanted to go play with any one, he simply went and did so. Now all sorts of barriers seemed to intervene, and the worst of it was that these barriers he seemed to have spun from out his own soul. Then too a queer feeling suddenly invaded his chest, exactly like that he remembered to have experienced during the downward rush of a swing. Bobby could not comprehend these things; they just were. He was fairly to the point of deciding to go back and look at the Flobert Rifle, in the shop window, when a group of children ran out from the wide office doors to the croquet court at the side. Among them Bobby made out Celia, a different Celia from her of the picnic. Her curls danced as full of life and light as ever; the biscuit brown of her complexion glowed as smooth and clean; even from a distance Bobby could see the contrast of her black eyes; but on her head she wore a brown chip hat; her gown was of plain blue gingham; her slim straight legs were encased in heavy strong stockings. She looked like a healthy, lively little girl out for a good time; and the sight cheered Bobby’s wavering courage as nothing else could. His vague ideas of retreat were discarded. But he did not know how to approach. The children inside the low rail fence were placing the brilliantly striped wooden balls in a row in order to determine by ‘pinking’ at the stake who should have the advantageous last shot. Bobby, irresolute, halted outside, shifting uneasily, wanting to join th…

The Claim Jumpers

Stewart Edward White 1873 1946, an American author, was born in Grand Rapids, Michigan. He earned degrees from the University of Michigan Ph. D., 1895; M. A., 1903. From about 1900 until about 1922, he wrote adventure travel books. Starting in 1922, he and his wife Elizabeth ‘Betty’ Grant White wrote numerous books they claimed were received through channelling with spirits. They also wrote of their travels around the state of California. His works include: The Claim Jumpers 1901, Conjuror’s House: A Romance of the Free Forest 1903, The Forest 1903, Blazed Trail Stories, and Stories of the Wild Life 1904, The Mountains 1904, The Silent Places 1904, Arizona Nights 1907, The Riverman 1908, The Rules of the Game 1910, The Land of Footprints 1912, The Sign at Six 1912, African Camp Fires 1913, The Gray Dawn 1915, The Leopard Woman 1916, The Forty Niners: A Chronicle of the California Trail and El Dorado 1918, and The Killer 1919.

Gold

1913. Gold begins: Somewhere in this book I must write a paragraph exclusively about myself. The fact that in the outcome of all these stirring events I have ended as a mere bookkeeper is perhaps a good reason why one paragraph will be enough. In my youth I had dreams aplenty; but the event and the peculiar twist of my own temperament prevented their fulfillment. Perhaps in a more squeamish age and yet that is not fair, either, to the men whose destinies I am trying to record. Suffice it then that of these men I have been the friend and companion, of these occasions I have been a part, and that the very lacks and reservations of my own character that have kept me to a subordinate position and a little garden have probably made me the better spectator. Which is a longer paragraph about myself than I had purposed writing. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing.

The Grey Dawn

On the veranda of the Bella Union Hotel, San Francisco, a man sat enjoying his morning pipe. The Bella Union overlooked the Plaza of that day, a dusty, unkempt, open space, later to be swept and graded and dignified into Portsmouth Square. The man was at the younger fringe of middle life. He was dressed neatly and carefully in the fashionable costume of the time, which was the year of grace 1852. As to countenance, he was square and solid; as to physique, he was the same; as to expression, he inclined toward the quietly humorous; in general he would strike the observer as deliberately, philosophically competent. A large pair of steel bound spectacles sat halfway down his nose. Sometimes he read his paper through their lenses; and sometimes, forgetting, he read over the tops of their bows. The newspaper he held was an extraordinary document. It consisted of four large pages. The outside page was filled solidly with short eight or ten line advertiseme*nts; the second page grudgingly vouchsafed a single column of news items; the third page warmed to a column of editorial and another of news; all the rest of the space on these and the entire fourth page was again crowded close with the short advertiseme*nts. They told of the arrival of ships, the consignment of goods, the movements of real estate, the sales of stock, but mainly of auctions. The man paid little attention to the scanty news, and none at all to the editorials. His name was John Sherwood, and he was a powerful and respected public gambler.

The Leopard Woman

It was the close of the day. Over the baked veldt of Equatorial Africa a safari marched. The men, in single file, were reduced to the unimportance of moving black dots by the tremendous sweep of the dry country stretching away to a horizon infinitely remote, beyond which lay single mountains, like ships becalmed hull down at sea. The immensities filled the world the simple immensities of sky and land. Only by an effort, a wrench of the mind, would a bystander on the advantage, say, of one of the little rocky, outcropping hills have been able to narrow his vision to details. And yet details were interesting. The vast shallow cup to the horizon became a plain sparsely grown with flat topped thorn trees. It was not a forest, yet neither was it open country. The eye penetrated the thin screen of tree trunks to the distance of half a mile or more, but was brought to a stop at last. Underfoot was hard baked earth, covered by irregular patches of shale that tinkled when stepped on.

Simba

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The Rose Dawn

1920. In the Foreword White writes: The author has written this story mainly from personal experience and recollection. He has, however, used freely two books dealing with land boom days. These are T.S. Van Dyke’s Millionaires of a Day; and T.R. Sanford’s The Bursting of a Boom. From Van Dyke’s really classic description the psychological sequence has been followed very closely; and from the Sanford book some of the auctioneer patter has been lifted bodily. The story begins: Colonel Richard Peyton stepped to the edge of his veranda and looked up into the early morning through the branches of his overarching live oak trees. He was very proud of those trees, for they were taller and more wide spread and branchy than any other live oaks in Arguello County; and that is saying a good deal. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing.

The Cabin

1922. Illustrated with photographs by the author. Contents: The Meadow; Short; The Fireplace; The Trees; On the Acquisition of Treasure; On Pioneering; On the Conduct of Life; The Stream; Theophilus; On Birds and Living Things; The Mill; On Strangers; Our Neighbors; The Guest Camp; The Ridge; The Big Country; Trout; Flapjack; The Ethical Code of California John; The Surveyors; and The Journey. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing.

On Tiptoe

1922. The novel begins: The great Intelligences who work back of our ordered universe are obscure to us. They move without haste and in their own good time. Never are their faces revealed to us. We are aware of them by their deeds, by their shadowed reflections in men, by the interactions of their laws which never change. Nothing do we know and few things have we guessed of their intentions or the aim of their mighty progressions. At one extreme of our vision the primal ooze; at the other, men as we know them; beyond that veil. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing.

The Glory Hole

1924. Definition Glory Hole: A small window through which one may look into the interior of a furnace. The book begins: Every one of the sixty odd thousands who made up the population of Little Falls believed that Little Falls was the most beautiful city in America. Nor was this entirely the judgment of inexperience. One met Little Falls people all over the world: probably no city of its size could produce as many assiduous travelers. They would tell you that themselves very soon after they had met you. In three seasons of the year there was something to be said for their opinion of the place. It occupied a bend in the river and the low hills on either side. Its streets were wide; and bordering them all, down to the very edge of the business district, stood double rows of broadleaf maples. All the residential section was set in lawns. Even the workmen’s small cottages had their little plots of green; and some fortunate tradition had almost eliminated fences between them. It was pleasant of a warm day to walk or drive beneath the deep continuous mottled shade, with the close clipped green grass on either side, and the mingled sound of the cicadas and whirling sprinklers. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing.

The Long Rifle

Stewart Edward White’s tale is the fictional story of young Andy Burnett, inheritor of Daniel Boone’s own long rifle. As powerful and moving today as it was when written in the 1930s, it is the timeless story of maturing youth set against the backdrop of the majestic Rocky Mountains in the early 19th century fur trade era. Recalls a time of endlessly expanding horizons, of oneness with nature and of refreshing innocence.

The Call of the North

Purchase one of 1st World Library’s Classic Books and help support our free internet library of downloadable eBooks. Visit us online at www. 1stWorldLibrary. ORG The girl stood on a bank above a river flowing north. At her back crouched a dozen clean whitewashed buildings. Before her in interminable journey, day after day, league on league into remoteness, stretched the stern Northern wilderness, untrodden save by the trappers, the Indians, and the beasts. Close about the little settlement crept the balsams and spruce, the birch and poplar, behind which lurked vast dreary muskegs, a chaos of bowlder splits, the forest. The girl had known nothing different for many years. Once a summer the sailing ship from England felt its frozen way through the Hudson Straits, down the Hudson Bay, to drop anchor in the mighty River of the Moose. Once a summer a six fathom canoe manned by a dozen addles struggled down the waters of the broken Abitibi. Once a year a little band of red sashed voyageurs forced their exhausted sledge dogs across the ice from some unseen wilderness trail. That was all.

Arizona Nights

Stewart Edward White 1873 1946, an American author, was born in Grand Rapids, Michigan. He earned degrees from University of Michigan Ph. D., 1895; M. A., 1903. From about 1900 until about 1922, he wrote adventure travel books. Starting in 1922, He and his wife Elizabeth ‘Betty’ Grant White wrote numerous books they claimed were received through channelling with spirits. They also wrote of their travells around the state of California. His works include: The Claim Jumpers 1901, Conjuror’s House: A Romance of the Free Forest 1903, The Forest 1903, Blazed Trail Stories, and Stories of the Wild Life 1904, The Mountains 1904, The Silent Places 1904, Arizona Nights 1907, The Riverman 1908, The Rules of the Game 1910, The Land of Footprints 1912, The Sign at Six 1912, African Camp Fires 1913, The Gray Dawn 1915, The Leopard Woman 1916, The Forty Niners: A Chronicle of the California Trail and El Dorado 1918, and The Killer 1919.

The Works of Steward Edward White

1917. A collection of White’s stories. Contents: Part I the Blazed Trail Stories: The Riverman; The Foreman; The Scaler; The River Boss; The Fifth Way; The Life of the Winds of Heaven. Part II. Stories of the Wild Life: The Girl Who Got Rattled; Billy’s Tenderfoot; The Two Cartridges; The Race; The Saving Grace; The Prospector; and The Girl in Red. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing.

The Killer and Other Stories

I want to state right at the start that I am writing this story twenty years after it happened solely because my wife and Senor Buck Johnson insist on it. Myself, I don’t think it a good yarn. It hasn’t any love story in it; and there isn’t any plot. Things just happened, one thing after the other. There ought to be a yarn in it somehow, and I suppose if a fellow wanted to lie a little he could make a tail twister out of it. Anyway, here goes; and if you don’t like it, you know you can quit at any stage of the game. It happened when I was a kid and didn’t know any better than to do such things. They dared me to go up to Hooper’s ranch and stay all night; and as I had no information on either the ranch or its owner, I saddled up and went. It was only twelve miles from our Box Springs ranch a nice easy ride. I should explain that heretofore I had ridden the Gila end of our range, which is so far away that only vague rumours of Hooper had ever reached me at all. He was reputed a tough old devil with horrid habits; but that meant little to me. The tougher and horrider they came, the better they suited me so I thought. Just to make everything entirely clear I will add that this was in the year of 1897 and the Soda Springs valley in Arizona.

The Land of Footprints

Books of sporting, travel, and adventure in countries little known to the average reader naturally fall in two clas*ses neither, with a very few exceptions, of great value. One class is perhaps the logical result of the other. Of the first type is the book that is written to make the most of far travels, to extract from adventure the last thrill, to impress the awestricken reader with a full sense of the danger and hardship the writer has undergone. Thus, if the latter takes out quite an ordinary routine permit to go into certain districts, he makes the most of travelling in ‘closed territory,’ implying that he has obtained an especial privilege, and has penetrated where few have gone before him. As a matter of fact, the permit is issued merely that the authorities may keep track of who is where. Anybody can get one. This class of writer tells of shooting beasts at customary ranges of four and five hundred yards. I remember one in especial who airily and as a matter of fact killed all his antelope at such ranges. Most men have shot occasional beasts at a quarter mile or so, but not airily nor as a matter of fact: rather with thanksgiving and a certain amount of surprise. The gentleman of whom I speak mentioned getting an eland at seven hundred and fifty yards. By chance I happened to mention this to a native Africander.

African Camp Fires

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www. million books. com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: VII THE INDIAN OCEAN EAVING Aden, and rounding the great promontory of Cape Gardafui, we turned south along the coast of Africa. Off the cape were strange, oily cross rips and currents on the surface of the sea; the flying fish rose in flocks before our bows; high mountains of peaks and flat table tops thrust their summits into clouds; and along the coast the breakers spouted like whales. For the first time, too, we began to experience what our preconceptions had imagined as tropical heat. Heretofore we had been hot enough, in all conscience, but the air had felt as though wafted from an opened furnace door dry and scorching. Now, although the temperature was lower, the humidity was greater. A swooning languor was abroad over the spellbound ocean, a relaxing mist of enchantment. My glas*ses were constantly clouding over with a fine coating of water drops; exposed metal rusted overnight; the folds In garments accumulated mildew in an astonishingly brief period of time. There was never even the suggestion of chill in this dampness. It clung and enveloped like a grateful garment; and seemed only to lack sweet perfume. 82 88 in daytime, and 75 83 at night. At this time, by good fortune, it happened that the moon came full. We had enjoyed its waxing during our voyage down the Red Sea; but now it had reached its greatest phase, and hung over the slumbering tropic ocean like a lantern. The lazy sea stirred beneath it, and the ship glided on, its lights fairlysubdued by the splendour of the waters. Under the awnings the ship’s company lounged in lazy attitudes or promenaded slowly, talking low voiced, cigars glowing in the splendid dusk. Overside, in the furrow of the disturbed waters, the phosphorescence flashed perpetually beneath the shadow of the ship. The days passed by…

The Rediscovered Country

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www. million books. com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CONSTRUCTING ONE OF THE STOREHOUSES OR ‘CACHES’ IN WHICH WE HAD TO LEAVE OUR SURPLUS GOODS ONE OF OUR STOREHOUSES OR ‘CACHES’ COMPLETED all at once some dilatory god threw over the switch, and it was light! Never shall I become accustomed to the magic of this phenomenon. Whenever anybody, white or black, happens to be near me, I remark upon it to him; and generally gain slight response. Went first to look at the lion kill nothing, and then up the small bushy ravines on the chance of seeing his lordship. Found where he had killed an eland with twenty four inch horns. Saw sign of greater kudu. The country rolled away before us in wave after wave of low, sparsely wooded green hills. The shallow valleys between were without trees, and grassy as so many cultivated parks. The eye followed them a mile or so, to come to rest on the low slopes of more hills, covered scatteringly with more little trees. In the bottom lands were compact black herds of wildebeeste, grazing in close formation, like bison in a park, and around and between them small groups of topi and zebra two or three, eight or a dozen moving here and there, furnishing the life and grace to the picture of which the wildebeeste were the dignity and the power. And every once in a while, at the edge of a thicket, my eye caught the bright sheen of impalla, or in the middle distance the body stripes of gazelle, or close down in the grass the charming miniature steinbuck or oribi. These were the beasts, of course, we were certain always to see; our daily familiar friends, the crowds on thestreet attending to the affairs of the veldt. And as we wandered farther up the valley, or along the bordering ridges, we could see also in all directions do n through the trees other scattered animals who had not joined the…

The Forty-Niners

Stewart Edward White 1873 1946, an American author, was born in Grand Rapids, Michigan. He earned degrees from the University of Michigan Ph. D., 1895; M. A., 1903. From about 1900 until about 1922, he wrote adventure travel books. Starting in 1922, he and his wife Elizabeth ‘Betty’ Grant White wrote numerous books they claimed were received through channelling with spirits. They also wrote of their travels around the state of California. His works include: The Claim Jumpers 1901, Conjuror’s House: A Romance of the Free Forest 1903, The Forest 1903, Blazed Trail Stories, and Stories of the Wild Life 1904, The Mountains 1904, The Silent Places 1904, Arizona Nights 1907, The Riverman 1908, The Rules of the Game 1910, The Land of Footprints 1912, The Sign at Six 1912, African Camp Fires 1913, The Gray Dawn 1915, The Leopard Woman 1916, The Forty Niners: A Chronicle of the California Trail and El Dorado 1918, and The Killer 1919.

Daniel Boone, Wilderness Scout

Promptly at the end of three days of fasting Boone knew that the war party would set forth no matter what the weather. It was a bad omen otherwise. In single file, at spaced intervals, the painted warriors would move from the town, firing their rifles slowly one after the other…
from Chapter XIV This semi fictionalized biography of the legendary frontiersman, first published in 1921, rings with desperate dialogue ‘We’ll be caught if we stay here…
the Indians are not far behind us’ and gung ho wilderness adventure. From Boone’s childhood along the banks of the Delaware River full of escapades ‘any normal and healthy boy would have revelled in’ to his cantankerous old age, in which he chafed to go further west to escape the encroachment of civilization into his beloved Kentucky, this is a highly entertaining life of the man who was never lost, but was ‘bewildered once for three days.’

The Betty Book

The Betty Book chronicles the development of the author’s wife as one of the best mediums of the 20th century. It describes how she first discovered her talent, how she developed it, and what her research came to mean. It also introduces the reader to the ‘Invisibles’ a group of people living on the inner planes who guided Betty and helped her understand the nature of life without a physical body.

The Unobstructed Universe

An undisputed classic in the field of psychic exploration, The Unobstructed Universe is as important to human understanding as the tales of Marco Polo 600 years ago. This book records the discoveries of Stewart Edward White as he explored the terrain and topography of the inner dimensions of life.

The Road I Know

This book is a facsimile reprint and may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages.

The Stars Are Still There

The moment we give the law of complement its full and literal value many puzzling things are explained. Why, for instance, as so many correspondents complain, does help, attention, aid, even just decent interest on the part of our Invisibles our Guardian Angels so to speak seem so capricious? Anybody with the slightest experience can report on that. Sometimes we seem wholly abandoned in a mess that one would think must impel the most misanthropic to lend a hand. There is no sense to it if these Invisibles are really our friends who wish us well. And yet they seem to have the power to help us if they choose.

With Folded Wings

CONTACT, as I have said, is a matter of individual experience and definition. It is hoped that the books and the previous pages have at least given the reader a basis for his own impression. It does not matter how diverse and divergent these impressions may be. Their value is in picturing to each an objective in which he can have faith. Now it is possible to be less vague. Granted an objective, how are we to go about reaching it? How are we to achieve this Contact?

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