G. A. Henty

Jack Archer (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

Author G. A. Henty and his brother Frederick both served in the Crimean War; Henty parlayed his experience into a budding career as a war correspondent and journalist, while his brother Frederick was killed within weeks of his deployment. Henty used their experiences as fodder for Jack Archer, a thrilling action-adventure tale geared for younger audiences that is set during the bloody conflict between Russia and a coalition comprising Britain, France, Britain, Sardinia, and the Ottoman Empire.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: The Floating Press
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Dezember 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781776674503
• Artikelnr.: 47393600

Autorenporträt

English author and war correspondent George Alfred Henty lived from 8 December 1832 to 16 November 1902. He is most well-known for his historical fiction and adventure books, including The Dragon & The Raven (1886), For The Temple (1888), Under Drake's Flag (1883), and in Freedom's Cause (1883). (1885). He was a British journalist who served as G. A. Henty's war correspondent. He was raised in Cambridge and finished his education there at Gonville and Caius College. He continued to cover important wars that followed, such as the Italian and Austro-Italian Wars. He wrote 122 books, most of which were geared toward young readers. He also wrote non-fiction, adult fiction, and short tales. In Henty's stories, the main character is a boy or young man who is going through a challenging situation. His characters are consistently low-key, astute, courageous, truthful, and resourceful with a lot of "pluck." The date was put at the bottom of the title page of each of Henty's 122 historical fiction works in their first printings.