The Flamingo Feather - Softcover

Munroe, Kirk

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1535460997 ISBN 13: 9781535460996

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2016

Synopsis

A stirring story of life and adventure among the native Americans.

"Amazing adventures." -The Atlantic Monthly

"A story of adventure of the kind that most boys like, and that many American writers before him have undertaken to furnish them, though none, so far as we remember, has succeeded in capturing so many readers as he, or in leaving so lively and permanent an impression thereby on their minds....No one could tell a story like this better than Mr. Kirk Munroe, who will hold all his old readers and make many new ones." -New York Mail and Express

"It needs only the name of Kirk Munroe attached to a story to insure its place among the best of its kind. The latest story of his is not a disappointment." -Minneapolis Tribune

"On the slender thread of tradition Mr. Munroe has strung a series of fascinating adventures. The story is certain to hold the attention of young readers, and is wholesome from beginning to end." -Literary World

"An exciting and prettily told story about a young French lad who came to this country in the Sixteenth Century with his uncle, and passed much of his life among the Indians. The flamingo feather was worn only by chiefs or the sons of chiefs; but the dying Has-se bequeathed his to Réné de Veaux, begging him to take his place in the tribe, which for many years Réné did, though he eventually went back to France. The book is full of exciting adventure, and healthful in spirit and style." -The Critic

"Mr. Kirk Munroe has told of the French lad who became an Indian chief in the Land of Flowers when Charles the Ninth was King." -Harper's New Monthly Magazine

"The author of this little volume maintains his reputation as a writer of entertaining stories of adventure for boys. His hero this time is a young French lad, Réné de Veaux, who, in the middle of the sixteenth century, accompanied his uncle on a voyage of discovery to the new world. The adventures that befell the party after they landed on the coasts of Florida - their flights with the Seminole Indians and their said experiences at the hands of the Spanish invaders - are described with vivacity, skill and unfailingly good taste." -The Book Buyer

"Mr. Kirt Munroe has made a very good use, in 'The Flamingo Feather' of the incidents connected with the unfortunate attempt of Laudonniere, in 1564, to found a Huguenot settlement in Florida." -The Nation

About this title

About the Author:

Kirk Munroe,was born in Prairie du Chien, WI, Sept. 15, 1850; died in 1930. He wrote ‘The Flamingo Feather’ (1887); ‘Wakulla’ (1888); ‘Campmates’; ‘Canoemates’; ‘Raftmates’; ‘Rick Dale’; ‘Dorymates’; ‘The White Conquerors’; ‘Big Cypress’; ‘At War with Pontiac’ etc.; also a ‘Life of Mrs. Stowe’ (with her son); ‘The Outcast Warrior’; ‘For the Mikado’ (1906).

About this edition

• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 1535460997
• ISBN 13: 9781535460996
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 180