Description
Good dust jacket illustrated with ship, sailor and treasure chest, chipping at corners and spine ends, light soiling to back panel along with a 1/2″ tear at top edge. The Very Good+ binding is orange cloth over boards, brown lettering and decoration on spine. Minor bumping, corner-wear, and edge-wear. Black-and-white illustrations by Russell G. Carter. The binding is tight and pages are clean. The book measures 8.4″ tall x 5.6″m wide.
About the book (from the dust jacket)
The excitement of history has ever been a source of interest and stimulation. Fiction based on historically accurate data, adds entertainment to knowledge and excitement to learning. In this carefully prepared volume, Russell Gordon Carter, whose work in known to American youth, has touched the field of historical writing is so well on some of the high spots in American history. Each episode is fictional, but is based on historical fact. Each is an individual story complete in itself with all the thrills, action and excitement that make a good story, yet all reflect the courage, the determination, the alertness and the high character of American boys who helped shape the course of the young republic and the destiny of our country.
Whether it deal with naval action, the colonists, adventures with the Indians, the American Revolution or the Civil War, the young reader will find each story replete with danger, thrills and excitement and composed of every element that makes for good, stimulating reading.
This book like the other volumes in the Teen-Age Library is presented for its high entertainment, plus character building value, but its association with history will make it doubly valuable to teachers, librarians and parents who are concerned with good reading for the alert modern Teen-Ager.
