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Herbert Strang
Book List in Order: 38 titles
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The Air Patrol A Story of the North-west Frontier
- Apr-2020
- / General Fiction
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Notion Press proudly brings to you timeless classics from ancient texts to popular modern classics. This carefully chosen collection of books is a celebration of literature, our tribute to the pioneers, the legends and the giants of the literary worl...
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The Air Patrol
- Aug-2022
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To a distant observer it would have appeared as though they were moving without support on the very face of the mountain. They wore European garments, and the briefest inspection of their features would have sufficed to tell that they were Englishmen...
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Burton of the Flying Corps
Herbert Strang was the pseudonym used by 2 British authors, George Herbert Ely (1866-1958) and Charles James L'Estrange (1867-1947), to write adventure stories aimed primarily at young readers, especially boys....
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Honour First
The great opening paragraph:Maurice Nugent awoke to sunshine on his sixteenth birthday,—and sunshine on the fells in March was rare enough to make the morning notable. But as he turned over on his bed, stretched himself, and put his feet to th...
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Humphrey Bold
'Tis said that as a man declines towards old age his mind dwells ever more and more on the events of his childhood. Whether that be true of all men or not, certain it is that my memory of things that happened fifty years ago is very clear and bright,...
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In Clive's Command
I have not attempted in this story to give a full account of the career of Lord Clive. That has been done by my old friend, Mr. Henty, in "With Clive in India." It has always seemed to me that a single book provides too narrow a canvas for the displa...
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With Marlborough To Malplaquet
This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts ...
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The Adventures of Dick Trevanion
Excerpt:The Village and the TowersThe village of Polkerran lies snugly in a hollow between cliffs facing the Atlantic, at the head of a little bay that forms a natural harbour. The grey stone cottages rise from the sea-level in tiers, as in an amphit...
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The Adventures of Harry Rochester
This collection of literature attempts to compile many of the classic works that have stood the test of time and offer them at a reduced affordable price in an attractive volume so that everyone can enjoy them...
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Barclay of the Guides
Popular novel, first published in 1908. According to Wikipedia: "Herbert Strang was the pseudonym of two English authors, George Herbert Ely (1866â€"1958) and Charles James L'Estrange (1867â€"1947). They specialized in writing adventure stories for ...
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The Blue Raider: A Tale of Adventure in the Southern Seas
Finally available, a high quality book of the original classic edition of The Blue Raider - A Tale of Adventure in the Southern Seas. It was previously published by other bona fide publishers, and is now, after many years, back in print.
This is ...
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Boys of the Light Brigade
Napoleon, having overrun Spain with some 250,000 men, swept away and defeated all the Spanish armies, and occupied Madrid, had set his hosts in motion to re-occupy Portugal and complete the subjugation of Andalusia. At this critical moment in the his...
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Bright Ideas
Bright Ideas, A Record of Invention and Misinvention by Herbert Strang. “Five Oaks Farm was of no great size, and had been the property of the Trenchard family for generations. The present owner, a hale old yeoman whose features were framed for pe...
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Carry On!: A Story of the Fight for Bagdad
Mesopotamia, "the land between the rivers," has been brought by Time's revolution once more into the foreground of the history of the world. The plains where Abraham, Isaac and Jacob tended their flocks and herds; where the hosts of Sennacherib, Shal...
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Fighting with French: A Tale of the New Army
Excerpt:In these days one would rather fight than write; and those of us whom inexorable Time has superannuated can but envy and admire.Seven years ago the father of two boys at Rugby asked me to write a story on the German peril, and the necessity o...
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The Flying Boat: A Story of Adventure and Misadventure
Finally available, a high quality book of the original classic edition of The Flying Boat - A Story of Adventure and Misadventure. It was previously published by other bona fide publishers, and is now, after many years, back in print.
This is a n...
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Frank Forester
One afternoon in July 1914, a party of five men was making its way slowly through a defile in the hills of Armenia. The singular verb is strictly appropriate, for the five men kept close together, always in the same order, and, being mounted, might h...
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A Gentleman-At-Arms
The Rudds, like many another ancient family, have come down in the world, as the saying goes. They no longer live on the toil of others, but work for their own livelihood. They no longer own manors, or follow their feudal lords to court in armour; bu...
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The Girl Crusoes
At noon on a day late in September, the express train from London rested, panting and impatient, for a brief halt at the little countryside station of Poppicombe. The arrival and departure of this train was the event of the day to most of the inhabit...
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Held by Chinese Brigands
We have heard it said, by those who are widely travelled, that there are three beautiful harbours in the world: Rio de Janeiro, in Brazil; Sydney Harbour, and--most beautiful of all--the harbour of Hong-Kong. The famous Peak rises above the town of V...
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A Hero of Liege: A Story of the Great War
At nine o'clock on Tuesday morning, August 4, Kenneth Amory walked into the private office of the head of the well-known firm of Amory & Finkelstein, gutta-percha manufacturers, of Cologne. Max Finkelstein, the head of the firm, swung round on his re...
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Jack Hardy
The first time Jack Hardy met Mr. Nathaniel Gudgeon was also the occasion of his first visit to Luscombe. It happened in this way. "Good-by, my boy," said his father, as Jack clambered on to the roof of the coach at the White Hart, Southwark, "and be...
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King of the Air Or, to Morocco on an Aeroplane
Mr. John Greatorex was very wealthy, and very obstinate. He had made a large fortune as a manufacturer of chemicals, but disclaimed any knowledge of chemistry. He had dabbled a little in mechanics, and was convinced that he possessed an accurate prac...
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The Motor Scout
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have ende...
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No Man's Island
Herbert Strang was the pseudonym of two English authors, George Herbert Ely (1866â€"1958) and Charles James L'Estrange (1867â€"1947). They specialized in writing adventure stories for boys....
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The Old Man of the Mountain
This collection of literature attempts to compile many of the classic works that have stood the test of time and offer them at a reduced, affordable price, in an attractive volume so that everyone can enjoy them....
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One of Clive's Heroes: A Story of the Fight for India
In which the Court Leet of Market Drayton entertains Colonel Robert Clive; and our hero makes an acquaintance. One fine autumn evening, in the year 1754, a country cart jogged eastwards into Market Drayton at the heels of a thickset shaggy-fetlocked ...
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Palm Tree Island
I was rising four years old when my parents died, both within one week, of the small-pox; and the day of their funeral is the furthermost of my recollections. My nurse, having tied up the sleeves of my pinafore with black, held me with her in the gre...
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Rob the Ranger
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...
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Round The World In Seven Days
Popular novel, first published in 1910. According to Wikipedia: "Herbert Strang was the pseudonym of two English authors, George Herbert Ely (1866â€"1958) and Charles James L'Estrange (1867â€"1947). They specialized in writing adventure stories for ...
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Samba: A Story of the Rubber Slaves of the Congo
Samba lay face downwards upon the yellow sand, amid which his body shone in the sunlight like polished ebony. Behind, the rising bank was thick with trees and shrubs ablaze with colour, overspread with the delicate tracery of lianas and, creeping pla...
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Settlers and Scouts
" ...]gesticulate and abuse one another with a deafening clamour. It was plain that every man wanted the load of somebody else. Mr. Halliday looked on calmly for a few moments, Mr. Gillespie curiously watching to see what he would do, and placidly sm...
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Swift and Sure: The Story of a Hydroplane
The level rays of the early sun were struggling with the mist that lingered upon a broad full river, like a sluggard loth to quit his bed. As yet the contest was unequal, for the banks of the stream were covered with trees and shrubs, crowding upon o...
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Tom Burnaby: A Story of Uganda and the Great Congo Forest
Finally available, a high quality book of the original classic edition of Tom Burnaby A Story of Uganda and the Great Congo Forest. It was previously published by other bona fide publishers, and is now, after many years, back in print.
This is a ...
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Tom Willoughby's Scouts
Working under the pseudonym "Herbert Strang," English authors Charles James L'Estrange and George Herbert Ely paired up to pen a series of enduringly popular adventure stories intended for younger readers. Tom Willoughby's Scouts is a timeless action...
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With Drake on the Spanish Main
Daybreak But, eastward, no glory of dawn. Black thundrous clouds roll sullenly across a livid sky, riven at moments by pale zigzags of flame. Rain tumbles in cascades. League upon league of white-crested waves chase one another in fury, hissing, roa...
