Gustave Aimard: 318 books

Il faisait nuit dans le désert ! une nuit de tempête, de sombre horreur ! une nuit de mort ! C’était aux époques légendaires de la jeune Amérique antérieurement à ses luttes glorieuses pour l’Indépendance ; bien avant que la civilisation eût abordé les profondeurs de ses forêts...

Vers les trois heures du soir un cavalier revêtu du costume mexicain, suivait au galop les bords d’une rivière perdue, affluent du Rio Gila, dont les capricieux méandres lui faisaient faite des détours sans nombre. Cet homme, tout en ayant constamment la main sur...

La civilisation est animée d’une force immense qui la pousse à une expansion sans limite ; comme la vapeur impatiente que soulève une ardente flamme, elle est toujours en ébullition, prête à se répandre hors des limites connues. La civilisation...

I. Une rencontre dans le Far-West II. Dans la forêt III. Le calli IV. Renseignements superficiels V. Conversation intime VI. Le voyage VII. L’escarmouche VIII. Le pueblo IX. Doña Hermosa X. El as de copas XI. Le rancho XII. Les Peaux-Rouges XIII. Rendez-vous de nuit XIV. Don Estévan Diaz XV....

BnF collection ebooks - "L'Amérique est la terre des prodiges ! tout y acquiert des proportions gigantesques qui effrayent l'imagination et confondent la raison. Montagnes, rivières, lacs et fleuves, tout est taillé sur un patron sublime. Voici un fleuve de l'Amérique septentrionale, non...

REPRÉSENTÉ POUR LA PREMIÈRE FOIS, À PARIS, SUR LE THÉÂTRE DE LA PORTE SAINT-MARTIN, LE 31 AOÛT 1865....... Tous sont autour de la table, dans des attitudes variées. Aldegonde repose sa tête sur le gilet d’Arthur ; Amanda a le bras passé autour du cou d’Edouard de Sauves ; seul le comte...

America is the land of prodigies! Everything there assumes gigantic proportions, which startle the imagination and confound the reason. Mountains, rivers, lakes and streams, all are carved on a sublime pattern. There is a river of North America—not like the Danube, Rhine, or Rhone, whose banks are...

It was towards the end of May, 1855, in one of the least visited parts of the immense prairies of the Far West, and at a short distance from the Rio Colorado del Norte, which the Indian tribes of those districts call, in their language so full of imagery, "The endless river with the golden waves." The...

The Jesuits founded in Mexico missions round which, with the patience that constantly distinguished them, an unbounded charity, and a perseverance which nothing could discourage, they succeeded in collecting a large number of Indians, whom they instructed in the principal and most touching dogmas of...

Loading in the environs of Barbara Bay, Cape Horn, I was surprised, with two companions, by the Patagonians, and made prisoner. I had the pain of witnessing from the cliffs the departure of the whaler on board of which I had entered at Havre as harpooner. It was with a deep pang of grief, and eyes bathed...

Excerpt: We stand on the loftiest peak of the Big Wind River Mountains, that highest and longest chain of the Northern Rockies, a chaos of granite fifteen thousand feet towards the firmament from the sea. Around us the lesser pinnacles hold up heads as fantastic in shape as an Indian's plumed for...

We left the Marchioness de Castelmelhor and her daughter Eva prisoners of the Pincheyra.[1] Thanks to the presence of the strangers in the camp, no one came to trouble the solitude of the captives. Towards the evening they were warned by a somewhat brief message to make all their preparations, so...

While Doña Rosario effected her escape by the assistance of Curumilla, as recorded in the "Adventurers," Don Tadeo was not long in regaining his senses. On opening his eyes he cast a bewildered look around him, but as soon as memory threw light into his brain, he let his head sink into his hands, and...