title: The Secret of the Tarascan Ruins (Spanish and English Edition)
author:  B. Palma 
description: About the author:B. Palma lives in Mexico City where she is Head of two Montessori schools.Her husband's tales of growing up on his family's haciendas and her adventurous youth in the Mexican countryside are woven into all of the Palo Alto adventures. Their lifetime love of horses is reflected by their years of equestrian show jumping.She recently had an article published in the centennial issue of the Montessori Life magazine.A similar article will be published in the Alpha Delta Kappa International Teacher's Sorority's biannual journal; The KappanRecently she was awarded the Mexican National Press Circle's Special Award for Educational Merit, 2008Her Elementary School has been acknowledged as a model school for the State of MexicoHer next book, And Then, takes the young adventurers of her books ten years later where their childhood friendships grow into the beginning of lifetime relationships.
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  # Tartarin of Tarascon
  
  
  ### Alphonse Daudet
  
  
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  EPISODE THE FIRST IN TARASCON
  
  
  
  
  
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  I. The Garden Round the Giant Trees.
  
  
  
  
  
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  II. A general glance bestowed upon the good town
  
  
  of Tarascon, and a particular one on "the cap-poppers."
  
  
  
  
  
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  III. "Naw, naw, naw!'' The general glance
  
  
  protracted upon the good town.
  
  
  
  
  
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  IV. "They!"
  
  
  
  
  
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  V. How Tartarin went round to his club.
  
  
  
  
  
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  VI. The two Tartarins.
  
  
  
  
  
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  VII. Tartarin -- The Europeans at Shanghai --
  
  
  Commerce -- The Tartars -- Can Tartarin of Tarascon be an Impostor ?
  
  
  \-- The Mirage.
  
  
  
  
  
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  VIII. Mitaine's Menagerie -- A Lion from the
  
  
  Atlas at Tarascon -- A Solemn and Fearsome Confrontation.
  
  
  
  
  
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  IX. Singular effects of Mental Mirage.
  
  
  
  
  
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  X. Before the Start.
  
  
  
  
  
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  XI. "Let's have it out with swords gentleman, not
  
  
  pins"
  
  
  
  
  
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  XII. A memorable Dialogue in the little Baobab
  
  