About This Book
A resourceful country boy leaves home to seek work in the city, endures hard labor, lodging-house privations, and odd jobs before finding employment at a newspaper and becoming known as a boy reporter; he is later sent abroad as a correspondent, experiencing long voyages, shipboard work, encounters with insurgents that include capture and escape, involvement in military operations and naval cruises, a wartime wound and hospital recovery, and finally writes up his experiences and returns home.
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