This report from an outpost of the British Empire in Northern Burma during the last decade of the nineteenth century highlights the colonial mindset. Written for an American Audience of the period.

Coward, scoundrel, lover and cheat, but there is no better man to go into the jungle with. Join Flashman in his adventures as he survives fearful ordeals and outlandish perils across the four corners of the world.An international mission calls for unflinching bravery in the bedroom . . .Caught between an opium-selling vicar’s wife, an Amazonian bandit queen looking for her next husband and the Chinese Emperor’s ravishing concubine, Harry Flashman is busier than ever.

A thrilling personal account of a hunting trip on the vast plains of South Africa. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing many of these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

The last three books in George MacDonald Fraser’s uproarious bestselling Flashman series, now available in one ebook for the first time.FLASHMAN AND THE DRAGON: 1860As China seethes through the bloodiest civil war in history, and the British and French armies hack their way to the heart of the Forbidden City, Flashman finds his services much in demand. There’s the vicar’s wife, desperate to sell her cargo of opium; the Amazonian bandit queen who, having mislaid five husbands...

What Men Liv by and Other Tales.

H. Rider Haggard was an English author known for adventure novels set in exotic locations. Haggard is considered to be one of the first writers of the Lost World genre. Haggard's novel She: A History of Adventure is a first-person narrative of 2 men in a lost kingdom.

Meet Edogawa Rampo, the undisputed master of Japanese suspense, psychological terror, and the grotesque widely known as "The Edgar Allan Poe of Japan." This essential collection gathers some of his most brilliant and unsettling short stories, alongside a tale that reflects the dark, uncanny folklore that inspired him.Rampo's tales are a disturbing look into obsession, identity, and the limits of the human body and mind:The Human Chair: A clau...

Step into the thrilling and romantic world of George Barr McCutcheon’s Truxton King: A Story of Graustark, a tale that combines adventure, intrigue, and the timeless struggle between duty and desire. Set in the fictional kingdom of Graustark, this novel weaves a captivating story of a young American who finds himself entangled in royal affairs far beyond his expectations.As McCutcheon’s narrative unfolds, you’ll be drawn into a world of political conspiraci...

Little Jannita sat alone beside a milk-bush. Before her and behind her stretched the plain, covered with red sand and thorny karoo bushes; and here and there a milk-bush, looking like a bundle of pale green rods tied together. Not a tree was to be seen anywhere, except on the banks of the river, and that was far away, and the sun beat on her head. Round her fed the Angora goats she was herding; pretty things, especially the little ones, with white silky curls that touched the ground

A journey to the home of the Esquimaux in Greenland during the mid Nineteenth Century exploring the Native customs and habits.