Aimard Gustave: 318 books

C'était vers la fin de mai 1855, dans un des sites les plus ignorés des immenses prairies du Far-West, à peu de distance du Río Colorado del Norte, que les tribus indiennes de ces parages nomment, dans leur langage imagé, le fleuve sans fin aux lames d'or. Il faisait une nuit profonde. La lune aux...

Par une brûlante journée du mois d’août 1862 un petit steamer sillonnait paisiblement les eaux brunes du Minnesota. On pouvait voir entassés pêle-mêle sur le pont, hommes, femmes, enfants, caisses, malles, paquets, et les mille inutilités indispensables...

BnF collection ebooks - "La basse Californie est une immense péninsule commençant à la baie de Todos-Santos et finissant au cap San-Lucar, par-delà le tropique, fort avant dans la zone torride ; sa largeur varie entre 50 et 130 kilomètres ; elle est séparée en deux parties presque égales...

Extrait du livre : Les nombreuses superstitions qui régnaient dans la Nouvelle-Angleterre, avant la guerre de l’indépendance, ont survécu dans beaucoup de contrées. Malgré le progrès de la civilisation, elles maintiennent leur empire sur l’inculte...

A romance set in centuries-ago Spain.

Story of a cowboy along the border 150 years ago. A thrilling tale of romance, love, the desert, and Navajos.

The story begins on May 5, 1805, in one of the wildest and most abrupt portions of New Spain, which now forms the State of Coahuila, belonging to the Mexican Confederation. If the reader will have the kindness to take a glance at a numerous cavalcade, which is debouching from a canyon and scaling...

Sympathy is a feeling admitting neither analyzation nor discussion. It masters us, whether we will or no. Persons we meet unconsciously attract or repel us at first sight. And why? It is a question impossible to answer, but the fact is indubitable. An irresistible magnetic influence draws us towards...

Since the discovery of the goldfields in California and on the Fraser River, North America has entered into a phase of such active transformation, civilisation has advanced with such giant strides, that only one region is still extant—a region of which very little is known—where the poet, or the...

Patagonia is as little known at the present day as it was when Juan Diaz de Solis and Vicente Yanez Pinzon landed there in 1508, sixteen years after the discovery of the New World. The earliest navigators, whether involuntarily or not, threw over this country a mysterious veil, which science and frequent...

Aus dem Buch: "Am 2. Juli 18.., kamen gegen vier Uhr Nachmittags, in dem Augenblicke, wo die schon tief am Horizonte stehende Sonne nur noch schräge Strahlen auf die von der Hitze durchdrungene Erde wirft und die sich erhebende Brise die glühende Atmosphäre zu erfrischen beginnt, zwei gut...

Excerpt: In the year 1783, Western New York—or at least what was then deemed Western New York—was an almost unbroken wilderness, scarcely known to the inhabitants of the eastern and south-eastern portions of the State; although the greater part of that large tract of territory then known as Tryon...

A tale of romance and adventue in Mexico and California.

The immense virgin forests which once covered the soil of North America are more and more disappearing before the busy axes of the squatters and pioneers, whose insatiable activity removes the desert frontier further and further to the west. Flourishing towns, well tilled and carefully-sown fields,...