Three Lieutenants, 1876 The Three Commanders, 1876 The Three Admirals, 1878 Kidnapping in the Pacific, 1879 Hendriks the Hunter, 1884 He travelled widely on the ordinary routes of travel, and described his experience for the young in: Western Wanderings. Or, a pleasure tour in the Canadas, 1856 My Travels in Many Lands, 1862 (France, Italy and Portugal) "In The Eastern Seas", 1871 The Western World, 1874 A Yacht Voyage round England, 1879 His popular records of adventure and of discovery included: Captain Cook: His Life, Voyages, and Discoveries, 1871 Great African Travellers, 1874 Popular History of the Navy, 1876 Notable Voyages from Columbus to Parry, 1880 Adventures in the Far West, 1881 Adventures in Africa, 1883 Adventures in India, 1884 Adventures in Australia, 1885 Travels of Dr. Livingstone (also known as Livingstone's Travels), 1886 Travels of Mungo Park, Denham and Clapperton, 1886 He published translations of several of Jules Verne's stories from the French (see below on the actual translator), and wrote many historical tales dealing with almost all periods and countries, from Eldol the Druid (1874) and Jovinian, a tale of Early Papal Rome (1877) downwards, and undertook some popular historical compilations such as Half-Hours with the Kings and Queens of England (1876). He rewrote Richard Johnson's 1596 book The Seven Champions of Christendom to bring the language into more contemporary English. His writings occupy nine pages and a half of the British Museum Catalogue. They were very popular; his tales were quite innocuous, but most of them proved ephemeral. Feeling his health failing, he wrote a farewell letter on 2 August 1880 in touching terms to the boys for whom he had written so much and so long, and died three days later at Stormont Lodge, Willesden, near London. Family life On 4 August 1853, Kingston married Agnes Kinloch, daughter of Captain Charles Kinloch of the 52nd Light Infantry who had served in the Peninsular War as aide-de-camp to General Sir John Hope. Their honeymoon was spent in Canada, where Kingston acquired the background for many of his later novels, and they spent their first Christmas at Quebec City with the family of William Collis Meredith, Chief Justice of Quebec. Agnes Kinloch was privately educated, as was the custom of the time. She sang well, was an accomplished musician, studied art and languages in Europe, and spoke both French and German fluently, a skill which was to be