[Gutenberg 21241] • The Rifle Rangers
- Authors
- Reid, Mayne
- Publisher
- Createspace
- Tags
- mexico -- juvenile fiction , hunters -- juvenile fiction , adventure and adventurers -- juvenile fiction , childrens
- ISBN
- 9781512281699
- Date
- 1850-01-01T00:00:00+00:00
- Size
- 0.23 MB
- Lang
- en
Away over the dark, wild waves of the rolling Atlantic-away beyond the summer islands of the Western Ind-lies a lovely land. Its surface-aspect carries the hue of the emerald; its sky is sapphire; its sun is a globe of gold. It is the land of Anahuac! The tourist turns his face to the Orient-the poet sings the gone glories of Greece-the painter elaborates the hackneyed pictures of Apennine and Alp-the novelist turns the skulking thief of Italy into a picturesque bandit, or, Don Quixote-like, betaking himself into the misty middle age, entertains the romantic miss and milliner's apprentice with stories of raven steeds, of plumed and impossible heroes. All-painter, poet, tourist, and novelist-in search of the bright and beautiful, the poetic and the picturesque-turn their backs upon this lovely land.