The plant hunters: or, Adventures among the Himalaya mountains (1859)
01/20/2010 · Alexander Keefe
Illustrations from The plant hunters: or, Adventures among the Himalaya mountains, written in 1859 by Irish-American writer Mayne Reid, who specialized in pulpy adventure novels. On a side note, the young Vladimir Nabokov was a big fan of Reid, especially of a book called The Headless Horseman (1866), which Nabokov later remembered as his favorite childhood adventure novel…
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