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Book: Four Young Explorers
Document Type: Artifact
Geographic Location: Boston, Massachusetts
ID Number: LB1984.139
Keywords: Book, Maritime Communities, Adventure,
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Description:
Cover of book by Oliver Optic (pseudonym), entitled "Four Young Explorers; or, Sight-seeing in the tropics." Published in Boston by Lee and Shepard, 1896. Oliver Optic was one of the pen names used by teacher and author William Taylor Adams ( 1822-1897). A teacher in Boston area schools, Adams wrote 126 books and over 1000 short stories. These adventure stories had the authenticity that a writer who traveled frequently and read a number of languages could provide, generally with main character(s) overcoming difficult but real challenges.
The cover of this novel shows a state of the 1896 art sail and steam exploration vessel.
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