Stewart Edward White's tale of young Andy Burnett, inheritor of Daniel Boon's own long rifle, is as powerful and moving today as it was when written in the 1930s. It is the timeless story of maturing youth, backdropped by majestic Rocky Mountains and Set in the early nineteenth century fur-trade era. "The Long Rifle" recalls a time of endlessly expanding horizons, of oneness with nature, of refreshing innocence. Enjoy!

    Brent-Dyer's most sought-after book. Set in a ‘Ruritanian’ kingdom and loosely connected to the Chalet School series, this full-length novel concerns the fortunes of a gifted young English girl, Jennifer Craddock, and her friends, students at the music college in the Balkan kingdom of Mirania. First published in 1930, when Elinor M. Brent-Dyer was at the height of her creative powers, and imbued with her characteristic spirit of place and lively characters, The School by the River is far more than just another boarding school story. Bettany Press is delighted to publish this new edition, with an Introduction by Helen McClelland.

    Little wonder, for readers are immediately drawn to Kent's vivid descriptions of the experience; we share "the feeling of wind and wet and cold, of lifting seas and steep descents, of rolling over as the wind gusts hit," and the sound "of wind in the shrouds, of hard spray flung on a drum-tight canvas, of rushing water at the scuppers, of the gale shearing a tormented sea."When the ship sinks in a storm-swept fjord within 50 miles of its destination, the story turns to the stranding and subsequent rescue of the three-man crew, salvage of the vessel, and life among native Greenlanders. Magnificently illustrated by Kent's wood-block prints and narrated in his poetic and highly entertaining style, this tale of the perils of killer nor'easters, treacherous icebergs, and impenetrable fog -- and the joys of sperm whales breaching or dawn unmasking a longed-for landfall -- is a rare treat for old salts and landlubbers alike.