The True Story Book

The True Story Book is a volume full of adventures that happened to real people. In this book, there is not a dragon in the collection, nor even a giant; witches, here, play no part, and almost all the characters are grown up. The book contains twenty-four true stories, mainly drawn from European history. Stories Included within this volume are A Boy among the Red Indians – Casanova's Escape – Adventures on the Findhorn – The Story of Grace Darling – The 'Shannon' and the 'Chesapeake' – Captain Snelgrave and the Pirates – The Spartan Three Hundred – Prince Charlie's Wanderings – Two Great Matches – The Story of Kaspar Hauser – An Artist's Adventure – The Tale of Isandhlwana and Rorke's Drift – How Lief the Lucky found Vineland the Good – The Escapes of Cervantes – The Worthy Enterprise of John Foxe – Baron Trenck – The Adventure of John Rawlins – The Chevalier Johnstone's Escape from Culloden – The Adventures of Lord Pitsligo – The Escape of Caesar Borgia from the Castle of Medina del Campo – The Kidnapping of the Princes – The Conquest of Montezuma's Empire – Adventures of Bartholomew Portugues, a Pirate – The Return of the French Freebooters.