John Finnemore: 4 books

pubOne.info thank you for your continued support and wish to present you this new edition. Jack Haydon, prefect of Rushmere School and captain of the first fifteen, walked swiftly out of the school gates and turned along the high road. He had leave to go to the little town of Longhampton, three miles away, to visit a day-scholar, a great friend of his, now on the sick list.

Overview of life in Japan around 1900. Chapter titles include: Boys and Girls in Japan, In the House, A Japanese Day, Japanese Games, The Feast of Dolls and the Feast of Flags, Kite-Flying, Fairy Stories, Tea-Houses and Temples, The Rickshaw-Man, The Policeman and the Soldier, and Two Great Festivals.

More than six hundred years ago, a great traveller returned to Europe and told the world of the wonders he had seen when journeying in the Far East. This was the famous Marco Polo, the Venetian, who had travelled through China in the year 1295. He tells us that when he was in China he heard of "Chipangue,...

Burma is the scene of the quest of Jack Haydon, prefect of Rushmere School and captain of the first fifteen. The quest is not rubies, as the reader might expect, but Jack's father, who mysteriously disappears at Brindisi when returning from the East. Jack, having discovered that his father has been...