Northern lands
- First published
- 1872
- Pages
- 263
About this book
Northern Lands is one of Oliver Optic's many travel adventure novels for boys, working in the kind of educational travel writing combined with adventure plot that he used across multiple connected series. The northern lands setting points to the kind of European or northern Atlantic travel that the protagonists undertake, with the standard educational and adventure structure of his travel fiction adapted to the particular geographical setting.
The educational dimension of Optic's travel fiction was significant. Young readers absorbed substantial geographic, cultural, and historical information through his adventure plots, with the travel sequences providing the framework for both entertainment and instruction.
For scholars of nineteenth century American children's literature, of the educational travel writing tradition, or of the wider career of Oliver Optic, the various novels in his catalogue are essential. Many of his books are now in the public domain.
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Book facts
- Author
- Oliver Optic
- First published
- 1872
- Reading time
- About 7 hours
- Pages
- 263
- Language
- English
- Genre
- Fiction Books
- Formats
- PDF, EPUB, MOBI, Read online