![[texts]](/images/mediatype_texts.gif) | WHG Kingston, The Rival Crusoes - William Henry Giles Kingston (1814-1880) Our hero is the sixteen-year-old Dick Hargrave, son of a farmer near Keyhaven on the Hampshire coast. A good deal of smuggling went on in that area, but the Hargraves, although turning a blind eye if their barns were used by the smugglers for temporary storage, were not involved. The local landlord had been a politician who had been ennobled and who was now a marquis. One of his sons, Lord Reginald (for Lord is the courtesy-title of younger sons of a marquis) was in the Navy... Keywords: Athelstane; Kingston; Rival; Crusoes; PDF; TXT; ZIP; HTML Downloads: 135 |  |