Books with author Alex Harris

This book was originally published prior to 1923, and represents a reproduction of an important historical work, maintaining the same format as the original work. While some publishers have opted to apply OCR (optical character recognition) technology to the process, we believe this leads to sub-optimal results (frequent typographical errors, strange characters and confusing formatting) and does not adequately preserve the historical character of the original artifact. We believe this work is culturally important in its original archival form. While we strive to adequately clean and digitally enhance the original work, there are occasionally instances where imperfections such as blurred or missing pages, poor pictures or errant marks may have been introduced due to either the quality of the original work or the scanning process itself. Despite these occasional imperfections, we have brought it back into print as part of our ongoing global book preservation commitment, providing customers with access to the best possible historical reprints. We appreciate your understanding of these occasional imperfections, and sincerely hope you enjoy seeing the book in a format as close as possible to that intended by the original publisher.

Excerpt from The Emigrant Family, Vol. 3 of 3: Or the Story of an Australian SettlerWilloughby's first voyage had turned out a most auspicious one the fish, as the sailors said, came to look after the ship. There was no need to keep a look-out for them. Every thing that would hold a gallon of oil was full; and the vessel itself was crammed with almost more than it was safe to sail her with. How ever, the crew had been given to understand by the skipper that it was an old trick of his to leave nothing behind which he could carry away; and as they saw he could do with four hours below out of the twenty-four, and was n't afraid to put his own hand to a rope, they concluded it was best to have no grumbling: especially as it made good, after all, for their own lays And now, the ship coming into port, and all safe, every man was in rare good humour. The captain, in secret prospect of soon seeing the Daisy of the Bay, being the happiest man aboard.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.