Books with author William Henry Wills

Excerpt:On one of the hottest days in August of this exceptionally hot year of 1899, I spent a good many hours on the top of Kingston Hill, near Lewes. There are clear mornings, especially in the autumn months, when magnificent views of the surrounding country can be had from the flat top of that very long hill. Usually on hot summer days the prospect, with the sea of downland and the grey glinting ocean beyond on one side, the immense expanse of the wooded Sussex weald on the other, is covered with a blue obscuring haze, and this hot, windy August day was no exception. The wind, moreover, was so violent that all winged life, whether of bird or insect, had been driven into hiding and such scanty shade as existed; it was a labour even to walk against the wind. In spite of these drawbacks, and of the everywhere brown parched aspect of nature, I had here some hours of rare pleasure, felt all the more because it had not been looked for.

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Originally published in 1950, No Survivors was the first of Will Henry’s many novels based on historic incident. In it he shows what General Custer’s lonely stand and final moments at the 1876 Battle of the Little Bighorn might have been like, militarily and emotionally. Though the history books say that only the horse Comanche escaped alive, Will Henry creates one other survivor, Colonel John Clayton—and he was doomed, too. The fictional Civil War officer who once saved Custer’s life, Clayton leaves a journal describing his later career on the western frontier. As a civilian scout for the U.S. Army, he tries to head off the Fetterman Massacre. He is captured by Crazy Horse and taken into the Oglala Sioux tribe. For nine years he lives as an Indian—the adopted son of Crazy Horse, an intimate of Sitting Bull, and the husband of a medicine woman. He rides with the Indians against the white invaders, but by 1876 he has to make a choice about who he really is.

George sets out to help a friend deal with some trouble at home and finds himself with troubles of his own on the far side of the world in a home-made boat. Equipped with a shaky knowledge of marine engineering obtained at the public library, and using materials more suited to a tree house than a boat, George is underway and on the run. He's not running from just the pirates, bureaucratics and other troubles that are normally encountered by the typical young traveler: he's fleeing a walking calamity in the form of a beautiful movie star.Written by an amatuer yacht designer, boat builder and history buff.

Originally published in 1906 as a section of the author’s larger “School History of the United States,” this Kindle edition, equivalent in length to a physical book of approximately 64 pages, tells the story of America’s Civil War.CONTENTSI. Before the WarII. Lincoln-Douglas DebatesIII. Election of 1860IV. SecessionV. Opening of HostilitiesVI. Early Naval AffairsVII. Operations in the Mississippi ValleyVIII. The Army of the PotomacIX. EmancipationX. The Confederate GovernmentXI. Politics in the NorthXII. Further Operations in the WestXIII. Vicksburg and GettysburgXIV. The Chattanooga CampaignXV. Grant in the WildernessXVI. The Atlanta Campaign; MobileXVII. The Presidential Election of 1864XVIII. Final Work of the ArmiesXIX. Foreign Relations; the FinancesXX. Observations on the WarXXI. Early Plans of ReconstructionXXII. Congressional ReconstructionSample passage:The effect of the firing on Fort Sumter was magical throughout the North. Millions who had hesitated were now ready to decide for the Union. Two days after the fall of Sumter President Lincoln issued a call for seventy-five thousand men and the response was hearty from every part of the free states. Men forgot their party differences and rushed to arms to save the Union. In the South the effect of the fall of Sumter was similar to that in the North. The Southern people saw by Lincoln’s call to arms that he meant to coerce the seceding states. This awakened them to resistance, and it was in the following weeks that the last four of the Confederate states seceded from the Union—Virginia, North Carolina, Arkansas, and Tennessee. The people of Virginia now seized the United States arsenal at Harper’s Ferry and the Navy Yard near Norfolk, the value of which was $10,000,000. The seizures of the Confederacy now reached the grand total of $40,000,000.After the fall of Fort Sumter it was plain to the world that there would be war between the two great sections of our country. For many years there had been ceaseless quarreling between them; now there was to be an appeal to the sword, with all its baleful results.About the Author:Henry William Elson (1857-1935) was a professor of history at Ohio State University. Other works include “Side Lights on American History” and “Four Great American Presidents.”

American reprint of one of the most famous English nature books. Illustrated with new impressions of C.F. Tunnicliffe's woodcuts. Includes a new introduction by the author in 1959 and a glossary of dialect words. Dust jacket has a bit of wear at the heel of the spine. x 320 pages. pictorial boards which are reproduced on the dust jacket. large 12mo..

This early work by William Henry Hudson was originally published in 1898 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory essay. 'Birds in London' gives a compelling account of bird life in London, beautifully illustrated by Bryan Hook and A. D. McCormick. William Henry Hudson was born in 1841 in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He was an author, naturalist, and ornithologist. He spent his youth studying native plants and animals, resulting in the publication of 'Proceedings of the Royal Zoological Society'. In the early 1870s, Hudson settled in England and achieved fame with his books on the English countryside, including 'Hampshire Day' (1903), 'Afoot in England' (1909) and 'A Shepherd's Life' (1910), which were considered to have influenced the back-to-nature movement of the 1920s and 1930s.

Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.