This volume, however, consists of a single story, often considered the most exciting of all Corbett's jungle tales. He gives a carefully-detailed account of a notorious leopard that terrorized life in the hills of the colonial United Provinces. This story represents Corbett's most sustained and unique effort.

    Searching for them are Ben's uncle, the Coast Guard, everybody in Florida. Will they make good their escape? And will they find the Lion's Paw?

    Winner of the John Burroughs Medal for excellence in nature writing, the book reveals the daily pleasures and insights sparked by living close to the wild, as well as the isolation, hardships, and struggles.

    If she succeeds, her scattered family can finally return—with their heads held high as the patriots she knows in her heart they are.

    An entertaining story set in 1939 about the adventures Roger Levington has when he spends a fortnight in Yorkshire with his aunt, uncle, and four younger female cousins.

    This was built by Master Balthazar Gellibrand late in Henry VII's reign. Some years later, a younger son, Nicholas, declared for Parliament in the Civil War and was disowned by his father. However, the family retained its property despite following the Royalist cause, because Nicholas had won Cromwell's favour. Nicholas was the direct ancestor of Jesanne, the heroine of the present-day story. The story itself is set in the twentieth century. Sir Ambrose, present owner of the Dragon House, has lost sisters, son and grandchildren in various tragic circumstances during and after the Great War (1914-18), and is the last of his line.