This unique book charts Henty's works of historical fiction chronologically and provides both a plot summary and an historical overview of over 70 of his classic tales.

At the turn of the fourteenth century in Scotland, young Archie Forbes becomes involved with both William Wallace and Robert the Bruce in the struggle for Scottish independence from English rule.

George Alfred Henty was a prolific English novelist and war correspondent best known for his historical adventure stories. A contemporaries described him as a man of strong will, reasonable ambitions and a hard, steady worker. Henty wrote about eighty books for boys. A young man who worked as his secretary for two years said that Henty used to walkup and down his study smoking his clay pipe and reeling off stories just as fast as the secretary could take them down. Best known for adventure stories such as The Young Bugler, Under Drake's Flag, With Clive in India, When London Burned: Story of Restoration Times and the Great Fire, Moore at Corunna, At Aboukir and Acre, A Story of Napoleon's Invasion of Egypt, With Buller in Natal, With Roberts to Pretoria and With Kitchener in the Soudan, In Freedom's Cause, Under Drake's Flag, In Times of Peril, The Lion of the North and In the Reign of Terror.

G. A. Henty is a huge name in the writing of historical adventurous stories hence, he did the same thing in In Times of Peril: A Tale of India. The Times of Peril is a complete package of adventurous and thriller stories with well-structured plotting. The action-packed historical fiction tale is set in India during the Sepoy uprising. The main characters are two brothers. They go on a lot of adventures, and there is also some romance in this tale. During the 1857 Indian Mutiny, an English lad named Dick Holland finds himself in India. Dick's journeys through perilous situations and his interactions with numerous historical individuals and events are chronicled in the book. Readers should indulge themselves in the Sepoy rebellion of India and live the life of Dick Holland through the ideas of G. A. Henty.

In 1250 B.C. the teenaged son of the Egyptian high priest sets off a series of harrowing events when he accidentally kills the sacred cat of Bubastes and, accompanied by his sister and two foreign slaves, embarks on a dangerous journey to find safe haven beyond the borders of Egypt.