| The Desert Home or the Adventures of a Lost Family in the Wilderness Contributor(s): Reid, Captain Mayne (Author), Harvey, William (Illustrator) |
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ISBN: 1163329592 ISBN-13: 9781163329597 Publisher: Kessinger Publishing OUR PRICE: $37.40 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: September 2010 * Not available - Not in print at this time * |
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| BISAC Categories: - Literary Collections |
| Physical Information: 1.13" H x 9.02" W x 6" (1.79 lbs) 438 pages |
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| Publisher Description: 1889. Reid was a popular writer of books for young people. The Desert Home begins: There is a great desert in the interior of North America. It is almost as large as the famous Sahara of Africa. It is fifteen hundred miles long, and a thousand wide. Now, if it were a regular shape, -that is to say, a parallelogram, -you could at once compute its area, by multiplying the length upon the breadth; and you would obtain one million and a half for the result-one million and a half of square miles. But its outlines are as yet very imperfectly known; and although it is fully fifteen hundred miles long, and in some places a thousand in breadth, its surface extent is probably not over one million of square miles, or twenty-five times the size of England. Fancy a desert twenty-five times as big as all England Do you not think that it has received a most appropriate name, when it is called the Great American Desert? See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishin |