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Four Young Explorers; Or, Sight-Seeing in the Tropics

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By Oliver Optic
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A party of young travelers separates from a larger expedition to spend weeks exploring Borneo and its rivers, hunting, fishing, and studying local flora and fauna. They navigate steam-launch voyages up the Sarawak, Sadong, and Simujan, encounter crocodiles, orang-utans, and gibbons, and visit Sea and Hill Dyak villages to observe customs and long-houses. Rejoining the steamers, the group continues a tropical tour of Southeast and East Asian ports, making stops for sightseeing along the China coast, excursions up the Yangtze, and a river approach to the Chinese capital, with the narrative combining adventure, natural history, and descriptive travelogue.

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As a novelty, the following acrostic is presented. The praise from the different newspapers is brief, but to the point.

Not in the least tiresome.—Troy Press.
Exquisite touches of character.—Salem Observer.
Introducing strong scenes with rare skill.—Gloucester Telegraph.
Groups well certain phases of character.—New Bedford Standard.
Happy sprightliness of style and vivacity which fascinates—Dover Legion.
By many considered the author's best.—Journal.
One of the best of Trowbridge's stories.—Commonwealth.
Reader finds it difficult to close the book.—Hearth and Home.
Story all alive with adventures and incidents striking and vivid.—Dover Star.

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hich is one of Trowbridge's brightest and best.—Boston Transcript.
Is destined to be enjoyed mightily.—Salem Observer.
Very pleasant reading.—New York Leader.
Excels any of the author's former books.—Montana American.
Story is in the author's best vein.—New Haven Register.
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