May 30, 2024 | Willem Roda
Here is the some of the art of the Willem Roda books.
Mar 31, 2024 | Willem Roda
Willem’s mother was alone in the back room; she stirred up the fire in the stove once more, for Roda and Emilia would be home any minute, and now that the sun had set it was beginning to get cold in the street and chilly in the house. In the room, since Willem...
Mar 31, 2024 | Willem Roda
Ten days after the incident, the Dutch and the Englishman were drinking tea in the back room of Taipoen’s inn. On the return journey they had not met a single savage; but the prospectors and the officer who had provided them with the map and compass; these were...
Mar 30, 2024 | Willem Roda
Early in the morning Willem and Knol went to one of the main streets to get the necessities for the journey, inasmuch as they had not been able to get them at Taipoen. It was even busier and rowdier than the previous afternoon. Willem had written a note for Herman...
Mar 30, 2024 | Willem Roda
According to the manner of the land, the three horsemen gave in to their gladness with loud hurrahs, when the last barrier in the furthest fence closed behind them. That merry mood was heightened in each of the travelers by a different cause. Willem felt excited at...
Mar 25, 2024 | Willem Roda
Neither Willem nor Mr. Stake made some objections when, after a cursory acquaintance, the governor advised them to take a bath, eat a good meal, and then go to rest. Dilly led them to the well-furnished bathroom and, after dinner, showed them the way to their sleeping...
Mar 18, 2024 | Willem Roda
The horsemen, whose number had now climbed to four, at once continued their journey to Darling Station. A broad, trodden path pointed its way through the prairie; soon they came to the main road, a bend from which the departed guide had cut. “We can take a...
Mar 18, 2024 | Willem Roda
The sun had just risen by the time that Willem and Mr. Stake stood waiting with the packed and saddled horses. A stablehand from the hotel, who was an experienced bushman, would be a guide to them until someone from Darling Station came to take over. Willem wore...
Mar 3, 2024 | Willem Roda
Blue lakes with dark, rocky shores,—grey mountains with glittering snow-tops, black grinning chasms, and tender laughing mountain pastures,—rushing waterfalls and roaring torrents floated by in constant alternation; the nearest at a glance; what was far off, slow and...
Jan 25, 2024 | Willem Roda
The steamboat, a so-called saloon boat, in which Willem and Lord Greybury sailed up the Rhine the next day, looked much like a floating villa. The vessel was of considerable length and breadth, and was equipped with all the comforts to which the tourists who used it...
