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A young boy is placed under his cousin's care in the Green Mountains to combine outdoor exercise with regular study, and the narrative traces their travel and daily life in Vermont. Episodes of stagecoach journeys, boating, woodcraft, village visits, and schoolroom scenes alternate with descriptive passages about geography, scenery, and local institutions. Practical information about roads, rivers, and rural occupations is woven into personal incidents and mild mishaps that prompt conversations about character and conduct. An older companion's explanations frame each excursion as an opportunity for both knowledge and moral instruction aimed at young readers.

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Title: Marco Paul's Voyages and Travels; Vermont

Author: Jacob Abbott

Release date: March 1, 2004 [eBook #11681]
Most recently updated: October 28, 2024

Language: English

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Marco Paul's Voyages & Travels

Vermont

[by Jacob Abbott]

1852

Preface.

The design of the series of volumes, entitled Marco Paul's Adventures in the Pursuit of Knowledge, is not merely to entertain the reader with a narrative of juvenile adventures, but also to communicate, in connection with them, as extensive and varied information as possible, in respect to the geography, the scenery, the customs and the institutions of this country, as they present themselves to the observation of the little traveler, who makes his excursions under the guidance of an intelligent and well-informed companion, qualified to assist him in the acquisition of knowledge and in the formation of character. The author has endeavored to enliven his narrative, and to infuse into it elements of a salutary moral influence, by means of personal incidents befalling the actors in the story. These incidents are, of course, imaginary--but the reader may rely upon the strict and exact truth and fidelity of all the descriptions of places, institutions and scenes, which are brought before his mind in the progress of the narrative. Thus, though the author hopes that the readers who may honor these volumes with their perusal, will be amused and interested by them, his design throughout will be to instruct rather than to entertain.

Order Of The Volumes.

Marco Paul,

  1. In New York.
  2. On the Erie Canal.
  3. In Maine.
  4. In Vermont.
  5. In Boston.
  6. At the Springfield Armory.

Principal Persons

Mr. Baron, a merchant of New York.

Marco, his son, a boy about twelve years old.

John Forester, Marco's cousin, about nineteen years old.

Marco is traveling and studying under Forester's care.

Marco Paul in Vermont.