The title story follows a family across the Atlantic to the New World, through sights at sea, a new home, a narrow escape and steady striving. It is joined by Madelaine Tube, a Christmas story of a poor girl and her blind brother, and two shorter pieces, The Boy and the Book and Crystal Palace, all written to instruct as well as entertain.
Mid-nineteenth-century American children’s fiction of the improving kind, for collectors and historians of the genre. Download the free EPUB.