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Saêtta s’arrêta devant la table du ministre et s’inclina profondément, mais sans servilité, avec une sorte de fierté narquoise. Sully fixa sur lui son œil scrutateur. Ce coup d’œil lui suffit pour juger le personnage. Sans aménité, brusquement, sèchement, il dit : – C’est vous...

La Réforme est inséparable de la Renaissance ; elle fut une révolution à la fois politique et religieuse. Prêchée en France par Calvin dès 1534, la Réforme provoqua, entre catholiques et protestants, une longue série de guerres. Déjà sous François Ier et Henri II, des persécutions avaient...

Hugh Stanford is a tea planter’s son from Ceylon who comes to Australia and shows how disabilities can be overcome by courage and fortitude.

A short story from the More Tales of the Wild West anthology. Originally titled Bulldog, this is a different kind of western story about a man and his dog, Blondy.

Norah's home was on a big station in the north of Victoria—so large that you could almost, in her own phrase, “ride all day and never see any one you didn't want to see”; which was a great advantage in Norah's eyes. Not that Billabong Station ever seemed to the little girl a place that you needed...

We regret that a writer who can give us such good work should condescend to produce such worthless stuff as A Deal with the Devil. The conception of a centenarian bartering his soul with the devil for a new lease of life, wherein he shall live backwards and grow younger each day till the devil claims...

So, there’s this girl named Olivia Gale. Her mother married beneath her, her father and two older brothers died in World War I, and now her mother’s died too, so Olivia lets the house to Blaise Olifant, a scientist who lost an arm in the war and wants a quiet place to work, and moves to London....

Boarding school is over for the year. Norah is joyfully reunited with her family for the Christmas holidays at Billabong, but a fire destroys the stable and homestead at Billabong. Norah risks her life to find out why. Billabong Station, a cattle and sheep property in the Australian bush, is...

Interesting history of Jacques Cartier's explorations of "New France" (Canada), and his up and down relations with the local Indians. The King of France's reason for funding his explorations was to find a new passage west to Asia. He went on three major voyages to the area from 1534 - 1541.

Australia is in the grip of the 1930's depression and even on a billabong station, money is hard to find. Young Bob Rainham and his sister Tommy, are very badly hit, it seems that they may lose the small sheep property they have worked so hard to establish. When Bob falls into a deep cleft between...

Freddy Paxton and Jack Young fly their aeroplanes from Queensland to Billabong, where they are there to help mine the gold. A couple of casual shearers steal the gold using one of the planes for their getaway and kidnap young Bill. Bill uses all his resources to outwit them and escape, and makes friends with the lady on whose farm he has landed

It is the height of the gold rush when Dick and his sister, Betty Yorke, make their first visit to stay with the Linton family at Billabong and encounter rather more excitement than they’d bargained for. News of the gold strike has brought hopeful prospectors into the Billabong hills, among them...

This is one of the darkest of the Billabong books, as Norah and Wally’s gaily adventurous spirits come up against real pain. . . . In the aftermath of sending a brutal man to prison . . . Wally starts to suffer from “nerves”—in other words, depression. Norah takes him and their toddler...

The Billabong series, set in the Australian bush, recounts the adventures of the Linton family living on a station called "Billabong". The saga stretches from 1910 to 1942. In this book, the Billabong folk ride in wild country, droving cattle overland from the North. This is a story of good horses and dogs, their owners; and of a boy who found among them a new chance in life.