Headless horseman. Sea wolf wolf. Reed T.M.

The book includes two works of the English writer, recognized classic of the adventure literature of Thomas Mine Read - the famous novel “Horseman without a Head” (1865–1866), who glorified its creator, and the story “The Sea Wolf” (1859). Introduced by the impressions and moods of the young years that the author spent in the USA, a romantic story about the noble Texas Mustanger Maurisa Gerald and the beautiful daughter of the planter Louise Poindecster, whose love is opposed by the envious of the envious and the secret of an awkward horseman, terrifying the inhabitants of Savannah, and to this day captivates The imagination of readers both in the homeland of Mine Reed and around the world. The hero of the “sea wolf”, the twelve -year -old Philip Forster, the boyish craving for wanderings and adventures leads aboard the next from England in the pen of the Inca trading vessel, where he penetrates secretly from the team.

hiding in the hold, buried among bales with cargo, boxes and barrels, the young Philip is forced to conduct a constant struggle for survival - to overcome thirst, hunger, loneliness, fear of darkness, marine illness and fight with ship rats. He has to use all his knowledge, skills and ingenuity to break his way upstairs, to freedom.

works are printed accompanied by classical illustrations by Nikolai Kochergin (“Horseman without a head”) and Leon Benetta (“Sea Wolf”).