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Otis starts from Manila on a short cruise that turns into weeks and months as his sloop sails further and further into the Pacific Ocean. He is somewhere east of Fiji when he passes through the barrier reef of an island he doesn't know the name of because he doesn't have a chart. He has left a lot behind and now he thinks only of sailing home. But the island he has arrived at won't let him leave, not until he finds out what happened on the Far...

Alfie Dalfie is a book of stories about the travels of Alfie the monkey and his two friends, Rattie the water rat, and Raccie the raccoon. Alfie and his friends sail on the boat Good Name from island to island where they have adventures, such as in the story of "Raccie and the Magic Pillow." Alfie and his friends meet many animals that have problems. Alfie's friends try to solve the problems, but in the end, Alfie finds a solution based on fri...

Roots of American Environmentalism With an Introduction, Notes, and Critical Commentary Roots of American Environmentalism is an anthology that explores the various attitudes toward land and its use from the American colonial period to the end of the nineteenth century. The major focus is on the differing concepts of "land, " "wilderness, " and "nature" and the way they are represented in historical texts. In order to facilitate access to ...

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Origins of the American Short Story is an anthology of prose texts that first appeared in various American magazines in the latter half of the 18th century. These magazines, most of them short lived, represented a struggling literary culture that began to flourish only later in the next century. In selecting the stories included here, the editors concentrated on three key features: the use of American topics, settings, and characters, the e...

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