N. C Wyeth

During one of his several adventurous voyages in the 1600s, an Englishman becomes the sole survivor of a shipwreck and lives on a deserted island for more than twenty-eight years.

During the American Civil War, five prisoners-of-war hijack a scout balloon and find themselves on an uncharted island harboring a tantalizing secret.

An eighteenth-century idler who sleeps for twenty years in the Catskill Mountains awakens to a much-changed world.

Recounts the coming of the Pilgrims to America, with illustrations by N.C. Wyeth.

Recounts the life and adventures of Robin Hood, who, with his band of followers, lived as an outlaw in Sherwood Forest dedicatedto fight against tyranny.

"An American painting dynasty is portrayed in this biography of N.C. Wyeth."--BOOK JACKET. "His name summons up our earliest images of the beloved books we read as children. His illustrations for Scribner's Illustrated Classics (Treasure Island, Kidnapped, The Last of the Mohicans, The Yearling) are etched into the collective memory of generations of readers. He was hailed as the greatest American illustrator of his day. For forty-three years, starting...

While in the service of Alexander II, Michael Strogoff faces almost insurmountable obstacles as he carries a message from Moscow to Irkutsk during the time of a Tatar rebellion.

"The Scottish Chiefs" is a romantic and suspenseful novel about14th-century heroes of Scotland, Sir William Wallace and Robert the Bruce. They were the brave Scots who rebelled against the tyranny of King Edward. The book is brimming with beautiful speeches and descriptions, excitement, battles, tragedy, and heroic deeds.