King Solomon’s Mine

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9786057892164
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14x20
Sayfa Sayısı:
260
Baskı:
1
Basım Tarihi:
2019-01
Kapak Türü:
Ciltsiz
Kağıt Türü:
2. Hamur
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9786057892164
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King Solomon’s Mine
King Solomon’s Mine
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“...It is a curious thing that at my age fifty-five last birthday I should find myself taking up a pen to try to write a history. I wonder what sort of a history it will be when I have finished it, if ever I come to the end of the trip! I have done a good many things in my life, which seems a long one to me, owing to myhaving begun work so young, perhaps. At an age when other boys are at school I was earning my living as a trader in the old Colony. I have been trading, hunting, fighting, or mining ever since. And yet it is only eight months ago that I made my pile. It is a big pile now that I have got it I don't yet know how big but I do not think I would go through the last fifteen or sixteen months again for it; no, not if I knew that I should come out safe at the end, pile and all. But then I am a timid man, and dislike violence; moreover, I am almost sick of adventure. I wonder why I am going to write this book: it is not in my line. I am not a literary man, though very devoted to the Old Testament and also to the “Ingoldsby Legends.” Let me try to set down my
reasons, just to see if I have any. First reason: Because Sir Henry Curtis and Captain John Good asked me...”

“...It is a curious thing that at my age fifty-five last birthday I should find myself taking up a pen to try to write a history. I wonder what sort of a history it will be when I have finished it, if ever I come to the end of the trip! I have done a good many things in my life, which seems a long one to me, owing to myhaving begun work so young, perhaps. At an age when other boys are at school I was earning my living as a trader in the old Colony. I have been trading, hunting, fighting, or mining ever since. And yet it is only eight months ago that I made my pile. It is a big pile now that I have got it I don't yet know how big but I do not think I would go through the last fifteen or sixteen months again for it; no, not if I knew that I should come out safe at the end, pile and all. But then I am a timid man, and dislike violence; moreover, I am almost sick of adventure. I wonder why I am going to write this book: it is not in my line. I am not a literary man, though very devoted to the Old Testament and also to the “Ingoldsby Legends.” Let me try to set down my
reasons, just to see if I have any. First reason: Because Sir Henry Curtis and Captain John Good asked me...”

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