Rivers of Ice
by Robert Michael Ballantyne
Publisher: ManyBooks 1875
ISBN/ASIN: 1484941136
Number of pages: 278
Description:
On a certain summer morning, about the middle of the present century, a big bluff man, of seafaring aspect, found himself sauntering in a certain street near London Bridge. He was a man of above fifty, but looked under forty in consequence of the healthful vigour of his frame, the freshness of his saltwater face, and the blackness of his shaggy hair.
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