Mayne Reid
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Description
Thomas Mayne Reid was an Irish-American novelist who fought in the Mexican–American War (1846–1848). His many works on American life describe colonial policy in the American colonies, the horrors of slave labour and the lives of American Indians. "Captain" Reid wrote adventure novels akin to those by Frederick Marryat and Robert Louis Stevenson, and set mainly in the American West, Mexico, South Africa, the Himalayas, and Jamaica. He was an admirer of Lord Byron.
Books
The forest exiles, or, The perils of a Peruvian family amid the wilds of the Amazon
The naturalist in Siluria (Herefordshire, Radnorshire, Brecknockshire and Glamorganshire). By Captain Mayne Reid ..
The boy hunters
Describes the flora, fauna, and adventures three brothers encounter while searching for a white buffalo on the American prairie.
Bruin
A Russian nobleman, in an attempt to broaden their horizons, charges his two sons to travel east or west around the world and bring him the skin of every variety of bear with the only condition that they kill it with their own hands.