An indispensable tool for the boy who loves heroes and histories. This 126 page guide is the perfect tool for the student of history and the lover of the greatest adventure literature of the 19th century. The Boy s Guide offers two unique features. First, it gives the history of the remarkable life of Henty, and the reason why Christian boys should read his adventure stories. Second, it gives the reader both a plot summary and an historical overview of each of the more than 70 works of historical fiction that flowed from the pen of a man whom Sword and Trowel named the king of storytellers for boys. "