Sinbad the Sailor is a fictional sailor, living during the 1250s. During his voyages throughout the seas east of Africa and south of Asia, he has fantastic adventures going to magical places, meeting monsters, and encountering supernatural phenomena.It is worth noting that this book was first published in 1796. So, if the writing style seems a bit out of date, or the spelling of some words unfamiliar, age is the culprit.This edition of the book contains all 10 original illu...

2019 celebrates the 300th anniversary of the story of Robinson Crusoe - one of the most famous adventures of all time - with a brand new introduction from expert survivalist Bear Grylls.After surviving a terrible shipwreck, Robinson Crusoe discovers he is the only human on an island far from any shipping routes or rescue. At first he is devastated, but slowly, with patience and imagination, he transforms his dismal island into a tropical paradise. For twenty-four years he lives wit...

Robinson Crusoe is a book by Daniel Defoe, originally published on 25 April 1719. This first edition credited the work's fictional protagonist Robinson Crusoe as its author, leading many readers to believe he was a real person and the book a travelogue of true incidents. It was published under the considerably longer original title The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, Of York, Mariner: Who lived Eight and Twenty Years, all alone in an un-inhabited Island on the Co...

Join Sinbad on his 7 exciting voyages. Find out how Sinbad ventures out to sea. At first he wants to acquire wealth, but afterwards he is looking for adventure.Sinbad encounters many fantastic obstacles during his voyages. He meets giant animals, scary monsters and fearsome cannibals. But in the end Sinbad always escapes with a greater fortune than he began with.

'Learning is changing behaviour by practice - and anyone can do it!'Kids' Stuff - The Little Red Hen - Mother Goose's Rhymes - Hillaire Belloc's Cautionary tales for bad Children - Yarns - Songs - Poetry - Monologues: in Yorkshire Dialect - Speeches and Declarations - Universal Declaration of Human Rights - Speeches from the plays of Shakeseare - R L Stevenson - Treasure Island Oliver Twist, by Charles Dickens Chapter 1 - Genesis 1 - The Book of Exodus - The Book of Job - St Matthe...

Oroonoko is a short work of prose fiction by Aphra Behn (1640–1689), published in 1688, concerning the love of its hero, an enslaved African in Surinam in the 1660s, and the author's own experiences in the new South American colony. Behn worked for Charles II as a spy during the outset of the Second Dutch War, ending up destitute when she returned to England, and even spending time in a debtors' prison, because Charles failed to pay her properly, or at all. She turn...

The Life and Strange Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe (of York, Mariner Who lived Eight and Twenty Years all alone in an un-inhabited Island on the Coast of America, near the Mouth of the Great River of Oroonoque; Having been cast on Shore by Shipwreck, where in all the Men perished but Himself. With An Account how he was at last as strangely deliver'd by Pyrates) is a novel by Daniel Defoe, first published in 1719 and sometimes regarded as the first novel in English. The book is a...

Everyone has imagined the boy or girl of their dreams – but what would happen if they appeared in the middle of the night, and disappeared in the morning? Camaralzaman is prince of an island near Persia; Badoura is Princess of China; both have been imprisoned for refusing to marry as their parents wished. But when a fairy and a genie magically bring them together one night, they fall in love and marry on the spot. Now they must search the world for one another, and find some way to make th...

Robinson Crusoe was born in York in 1632 as the son of a merchant. He ignores its father's warnings and goes to sea, where it is caught by pirates. After an adventurous escape, he arrives in Brazil and quickly makes a considerable fortune through skilful trade and acquires a sugar plantation. To buy these new scalves, he makes his way to Guinea. Crusoe is the only member of the crew to survive a storm on this voyage. He is stranded on a remote island in the Orinoco estuary, where he tries ...

ISSN: 2397-9607 Issue 227In this 227th issue of the Baba Indaba’s Children's Stories series, you get a 60 page dual-story bumper edition!Here Baba Indaba narrates the story of the Wicked Half-Brothers which also includes the story of The Princess of Deryabar.Long, long ago and far, far away in the city of Harran there once lived a King who had every happiness which life and fortune could bestow save that he lacked an heir. He continually invoked on these unions the bl...

The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, Of York, Mariner: Who lived Eight and Twenty Years, all alone in an un-inhabited Island on the Coast of America, near the Mouth of the Great River of Oroonoque; Having been cast on Shore by Shipwreck, wherein all the Men perished but himself. With An Account how he was at last as strangely deliver'd by Pyrates...

ISSN: 2397-9607 Issue 101In this 101st issue of the Baba Indaba Children's Stories, Baba Indaba narrates the English tale of Lemuel Gulliver, surgeon, and sometime navigator, who sets sail on the Swallow in 1699 headed for Van Diemen’s Land (Tasmania, Australia).On this first voyage, Gulliver is shipwrecked and washed ashore. He soon finds himself a prisoner of a race of tiny people, less than 6 inches tall, who are inhabitants of the island country of Lilliput. Initially a ...