Mark Manning´s Mission
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| Hersteller: | Forgotten Books (Alger, Horatio) |
| Stand: | 2015-08-04 03:50:33 |
Produktbeschreibung
Excerpt from Mark Manning´s Mission: The Story of a Shoe Factory Boy As Sherlock Holmes fans still track the master detective´s steps through London´s familiar or remote districts, harbor-sides and alleyways, so are Horatio Alger enthusiasts determined to identify towns and villages from which his heroes had often risen from the ranks. Searchers believe that each of these regions - usually provided with fictitious names - has a real counterpart. They probably do, and the author offers such clues as "a half-day´s journey from the city," or, more explicitly, "located some thirty (or forty, or fifty) miles north of New York." Of course, places that once were rustic hamlets now may be macadam-paved suburbs, and that doesn´t help. At the outset, we learn that the hero of Mark Manning´s Mission lives in the country village of Pocasset. Then, aided by multiple hints strung out through the narrative, we estimate this must be within one-and-a-half hours´ rail travel from Manhattan. The Alger scholar knows that during the time of this tale - the early 1890´s - trains averaged a rather consistent forty miles per hour which, disgruntled commuters occasionally complain, may have been better time than they can depend upon today. We discover there is a Pocasset, but it is on Cape Cod (an area Alger knew well), four times the distance indicated by clues. Obviously a name of Indian origin, we find some possible Rhode Island counterparts, but they´re also too far. so we narrow our map to within sixty miles around New York City. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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