The Desert Home or the Adventures of a Lost Family in the Wilderness

The Desert Home or the Adventures of a Lost Family in the Wilderness is a thrilling adventure novel written by Captain Mayne Reid. The story follows the harrowing journey of a family who becomes lost in the vast and unforgiving wilderness of the desert. As they struggle to survive and find their way back to civilization, they encounter a variety of challenges and dangers, including hostile tribes, treacherous terrain, and vicious animals. Along the way, they must rely on their strength, resourcefulness, and determination to overcome these obstacles and make it home safely. The Desert Home is a gripping tale of survival and resilience that will keep readers on the edge of their seats from beginning to end.1889. Reid was a popular writer of books for young people. The Desert Home begins: There is a great desert in the interior of North America. It is almost as large as the famous Sahara of Africa. It is fifteen hundred miles long, and a thousand wide. Now, if it were a regular shape, -that is to say, a parallelogram, -you could at once compute its area, by multiplying the length upon the breadth; and you would obtain one million and a half for the result-one million and a half of square miles. But its outlines are as yet very imperfectly known; and although it is fully fifteen hundred miles long, and in some places a thousand in breadth, its surface extent is probably not over one million of square miles, or twenty-five times the size of England. Fancy a desert twenty-five times as big as all England! Do you not think that it has received a most appropriate name, when it is called the Great American Desert? See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing.This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the old original and may contain some imperfections such as library marks and notations. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions, that are true to their original wor