Garrison Tales from Tonquin
Author : James O'Neill
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Page : 210 pages
File Size : 33,34 MB
Release : 1895
Category : Vietnam, Northern
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Author : James O'Neill
Publisher :
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 33,34 MB
Release : 1895
Category : Vietnam, Northern
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Author : James O’Neill
Publisher : LSU Press
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 49,64 MB
Release : 2006-10-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0807131806
The thought of enlisting in the French Foreign Legion held a tantalizing allure for young nineteenth-century American boys in search of adventure. Apart from youthful fantasies few Americans seriously pursued joining the legion. These surprising and extraordinary short stories, written by one young man who did, take us to that time and place. Born in Bridgeport, Connecticut, James O'Neill enlisted in the legion in 1887, at the age of twenty-seven. In 1890, deployed to Tonquin in French Indochina (more familiar today as Tonkin, Vietnam), O'Neill faced tropical heat, infectious disease, and sudden death. Like his contemporary Stephen Crane, O'Neill's ability to tell an engaging story and his keen sense for telling details provide a unique record of his time in this exotic world. In these thirteen "tales," O'Neill shows -- with surprising subtlety -- that France's efforts to conquer and govern Indochina were foolhardy. Although the only American in his stories is the narrator, it is clear that the tales are aimed at readers in the United States and are intended to caution against the construction of empires abroad. Far from polemical tirades, these are absorbing, unadorned stories -- remarkably contemporary in both style and substance.Charles Royster provides a short biography of O'Neill, who seems to have vanished into obscurity a few years after these stories were first published in 1895. Royster has also unearthed and included two essays O'Neill published in magazines of the time, one a description of a Buddhist temple in Hanoi and the other an appreciation of the Hungarian novelist Maurus Jókai. Whether read for historical value, literary merit, or political insights, Garrison Tales from Tonquin is a true discovery.
Author : Robert Penn Warren
Publisher : LSU Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 50,30 MB
Release : 2001-03-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780807126769
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Author : James O'Neill
Publisher : Hardpress Publishing
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 41,88 MB
Release : 2012-01
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ISBN : 9781290095051
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.
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Page : 628 pages
File Size : 15,97 MB
Release : 1896
Category : American literature
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Page : 656 pages
File Size : 48,98 MB
Release : 1896
Category : American literature
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Author : Los Angeles Public Library
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Page : 248 pages
File Size : 38,24 MB
Release : 1900
Category : Fiction
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Author : Minneapolis Public Library
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Page : 1068 pages
File Size : 35,70 MB
Release : 1901
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Author : Buffalo Public Library (Buffalo, N.Y.)
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Page : 204 pages
File Size : 29,40 MB
Release : 1898
Category : English fiction
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Author : George Flavel Danforth
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Page : 1208 pages
File Size : 26,31 MB
Release : 1900
Category : American literature
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