Description: Please refer to the section BELOW (and NOT ABOVE) this line for the product details - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Title:Through Three Campaigns, A Story Of Chitral, Tirah, And Ashantee Illustrated By: Wal Paget: (Walter Stanley Paget (1863-1935)), By: G A HentyISBN13:9781537530413ISBN10:1537530410Author:Paget, Wal (Author), Henty, G. A. (Author)Description:(This is a RePrint) - George Alfred Henty (8 December 1832 - 16 November 1902) Was A Prolific English Novelist And War Correspondent He Is Best Known For His Historical Adventure Stories That Were Popular In The Late 19Th Century His Works Include The Dragon & The Raven (1886), For The Temple (1888), Under Drake's Flag (1883) And In Freedom's Cause (1885) Biography--G A Henty Was Born In Trumpington, Near Cambridge He Was A Sickly Child Who Had To Spend Long Periods In Bed During His Frequent Illnesses He Became An Avid Reader And Developed A Wide Range Of Interests Which He Carried Into Adulthood He Attended Westminster School, London, And Later Gonville And Caius College, Cambridge, Where He Was A Keen Sportsman He Left The University Early Without Completing His Degree To Volunteer For The Army Hospital Commissariat When The Crimean War Began He Was Sent To The Crimea And While There He Witnessed The Appalling Conditions Under Which The British Soldier Had To Fight His Letters Home Were Filled With Vivid Descriptions Of What He Saw His Father Was Impressed By His Letters And Sent Them To The Morning Advertiser Newspaper Which Printed Them This Initial Writing Success Was A Factor In Henty's Later Decision To Accept The Offer To Become A Special Correspondent, The Early Name For Journalists Now Better Known As War Correspondents Shortly Before Resigning From The Army As A Captain In 1859 He Married Elizabeth Finucane The Couple Had Four Children Elizabeth Died In 1865 After A Long Illness And Shortly After Her Death Henty Began Writing Articles For The Standard Newspaper In 1866 The Newspaper Sent Him As Their Special Correspondent To Report On The Austro-Italian War Where He Met Giuseppe Garibaldi He Went On To Cover The 1868 British Punitive Expedition To Abyssinia, The Franco-Prussian War, The Ashanti War, The Carlist Rebellion In Spain And The Turco-Serbian War He Also Witnessed The Opening Of The Suez Canal And Travelled To Palestine, Russia And India Henty Was A Strong Supporter Of The British Empire All His Life; According To Literary Critic Kathryn Castle: Henty Exemplified The Ethos Of The New Imperialism, And Glorified In Its Successes Henty's Ideas About Politics Were Influenced By Writers Such As Sir Charles Dilke And Thomas Carlyle Henty Once Related In An Interview How His Storytelling Skills Grew Out Of Tales Told After Dinner To His Children He Wrote His First Children's Book, Out On The Pampas In 1868, Naming The Book's Main Characters After His Children The Book Was Published By Griffith And Farran In November 1870 With A Title Page Date Of 1871 While Most Of The 122 Books He Wrote Were For Children, He Also Wrote Adult Novels, Non-Fiction Such As The March To Magdala And Those Other Animals, Short Stories For The Likes Of The Boy's Own Paper And Edited The Union Jack, A Weekly Boy's Magazine Walter Stanley Paget (1863-1935), The Youngest And Perhaps The Least Artistically Talented Of The Three Paget Brothers, Held A Gold Medal From The Royal Academy Of Art, And, Like His Brothers, Illustrated Books And Magazines In Late Nineteenth-Century And Early Twentieth-Century London, Signing Himself As Wal Paget Binding:Paperback, PaperbackPublisher:Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublication Date:2016-09-07Weight:0.86 lbsDimensions:0.41'' H x 10'' L x 7.99'' WNumber of Pages:192Language:English
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Book Title: Through Three Campaigns, a Story of Chitral, Tirah, and Ashantee. Illustrated By : Wal Paget: (Walter Stanley Paget (1863-1935)), by:G. A. Henty
Number of Pages: 192 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: CreateSpace
Publication Year: 2016
Topic: General
Item Height: 0.4 in
Genre: Fiction
Item Weight: 17.5 Oz
Author: Wal Paget, G. A. Henty
Item Length: 10 in
Item Width: 8 in
Format: Trade Paperback
