Tom Swift and His Electric Rifle: Or, Daring Adventures in Elephant Land

Victor Appleton

Grosset & Dunlap, 1911 - Adventure stories - 212 pages

Tom Swift and His Electric Rifle is the tenth book in the original Tom Swift series. "Every boy possesses some form of inventive genius. Tom Swift is a bright, ingenious boy and his inventions and adventures make the most interesting kind of reading.". "These spirited tales convey in a realistic way, the wonderful advances in land and sea locomotion and other successful inventions. Stories like these are impressed upon the memory and their reading is productive only of good.". Tom Swift is the young protagonist in this series of juvenile adventure novels which began in the.

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Sentence, not scene, for Mary Nestor--"Tom made a farewell call on Mary Nestor "and promised to bring her some trophy from elephant land" (P. 66). Actually inspired the Taser, stands for Thomas Alva Swift's Electric Rifle.

Contents

• CHAPTER PAGB I TOM WANTS EXCITEMENT: 1
• TRYING THE NEW GUN: 9
• A DIFFICULT TEST: 21
• BIG TUSKS WANTED: 31
• Rusu WORK: 39
• NEWS FROM ANDY: 45
• The BLACK HAWK FLIES: 52
• OFF FOR AFRICA: 60
• ATTACKED BY A WHALE: 69
• OFF IN THE AIRSHIP: 79
• ANCHORED TO EARTH: 88
• AMONG THE NATIVES: 97
• ON AN ELEPHANT TRAIL: 104
• A STAMPEDE: 113
• LIONS IN THE NIGHT: 119
• SEEKING THE MISSIONARIES: 127
• SHOTS FROM ABOVE: 134
• NEWS OF THE RED PYGMIES: 141
• AN APPEAL FOR HELP: 153
• THE FIGHT: 158
• CHAPTER PAGB: 165
• THE RESCUE: 176
• Two OTHER CAPTIVES: 184
• THE ROGUE ELEPHANT CONCLUSION: 192

Bibliographic information

• Title: Tom Swift and His Electric Rifle: Or, Daring Adventures in Elephant Land; Tom Swift series, Victor Appleton
• Author: Victor Appleton
• Publisher: Grosset & Dunlap, 1911
• Original from: the University of Michigan
• Digitized: Aug 30, 2011
• ISBN: 1597345296, 9781597345293
• Length: 212 pages