Project Gutenberg 2025-05-23 Public domain in the USA. 153 Salgari, Emilio 1862 1911 Il tesoro del Presidente del Paraguay $aTorino :$bSpeirani, $c1898. https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Il_tesoro_del_presidente_del_Paraguay Barbara Magni and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images made available by The Internet Archive) "Il tesoro del Presidente del Paraguay" by Emilio Salgari is an adventure novel written in the late 19th century. Set during the War of the Triple Alliance, it follows Captain Candell’s audacious bid to run a blockade with a clandestine cargo of rifles and the Paraguayan president’s diamond treasure. Expect naval pursuit, a daring balloon escape, and survival at sea with Candell, the stalwart mastro Diego, the fearless youth Cardozo, and the enigmatic government agent Calderon. The opening of the novel places the covert war steamer Pilcomayo off the Río de la Plata at night, its crew whispering about their true cargo—arms for the Paraguayan army and the president’s treasure—while Allied ships move to trap them. The rendezvous that should have eased their passage fails, and amid tightening patrols Captain Candell reveals his contingency: a gas balloon prepared to spirit the treasure away. Under fire, after crippling a pursuing frigate, he launches the balloon with Calderon, mastro Diego, and young Cardozo aboard, diamonds in hand; soon a distant blast hints at the Pilcomayo’s destruction. Carried eastward over the Atlantic, the trio contend with fickle winds, leaking gas, an approaching storm, a teasing mirage, and the menacing rise of a giant sperm whale. (This is an automatically generated summary.) https://archive.org/details/SalgariTesoroPresidente 20240602081337salgari 1898 IT Reading ease score: 48.3 (College-level). Difficult to read. it Adventure stories Sailors -- Fiction South America -- Fiction Ballooning -- Fiction Diamonds -- Fiction PQ Text Category: Historical Novels Category: Adventure Category: Novels 571150 2025-07-30T06:53:45.091853 text/html 544573 2025-05-23T12:30:17 text/html 393928 2025-07-30T06:53:56.099761 application/epub+zip 390745 2025-07-30T06:53:47.370851 application/epub+zip 390746 2025-07-30T06:53:46.109838 application/epub+zip 1194592 2025-07-30T06:54:02.353797 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 1152362 2025-07-30T06:53:55.074780 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 494321 2025-07-30T06:53:42.277833 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 474410 2025-05-23T12:30:17 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 15003 2025-07-30T06:54:02.515732 application/rdf+xml 16852 2025-07-30T06:53:46.444816 image/jpeg 2549 2025-07-30T06:53:46.274800 image/jpeg 1099093 2025-07-30T06:53:45.144856 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://book.klll.cc/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia it.wikipedia