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A Chapter of Adventures, by G. A. Henty
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Title: A Chapter of Adventures
Author: G. A. Henty
Release Date: February 25, 2009 [EBook #28190]
Language: English
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A Chapter
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Adventures
BY
G. A. HENTY
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BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE
George Alfred Henty was born near Cambridge in 1832, and educated at Westminster School and Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge. He volunteered for service in the Crimean War, and after some varied experiences adopted a journalistic career. He served as war correspondent of the Standard during the Austro-Italian campaign of 1866, and was afterwards a correspondent in the Abyssinian War, the Franco-German War, the Ashanti War, &c. His first book for boys was published in 1868, and was followed by a long and very successful series, including The Young Franc-Tireurs (1872), In Times of Peril (1881), U