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Francis Parkman, Jr. - Count Frontenac and New France under Louis XIV
Part five of Francis Parkman's multi-volume series France and England in North America is but one of the masterful narratives that have earned him the reputation as one of the most notable American historians....
10 hours 3 minutes
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Harry A. Franck - Zone Policeman 88; A Close Range Study of the Panama Canal and Its Workers
Harry A. Franck was an American travel writer. After publishing Vagabond Journey Around the World , he spent 3 months in the Canal Zone of Panama as a census-taker and police officer. This work is a series of...
6 hours 15 minutes
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Thomas Wentworth Higginson - Book of American Explorers
This book tells the story of exploration in America in the words of the explorers themselves. It consists of extracts from narratives of the early discoverers and explorers of the American continent from the Northmen...
9 hours 54 minutes
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James O. Brayman - Thrilling Adventures By Land And Sea
There is in the adventures of the daring and heroic, something that interests all. There is a charm about them which, while it partakes of the nature of Romance, does not exercise the same influence upon the mind or...
10 hours 23 minutes
*Non-fiction
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Sydney Fisher - Chronicles of America Volume 08 - The Quaker Colonies
The Quaker Colonies describes the Quaker emigration to the colonies in the sixteen and seventeen hundreds and at the same time its involvement in the evolution of Pennsylvania, Delaware and New Jersey. Throughout, the...
4 hours 59 minutes
History
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Elizabeth W. Grierson - Tales Of English Minsters: Canterbury Cathedral Kent and Saint Paul's London
These simple stories of two of England’s greatest cathedrals were originally written for youth (1910) but adults will also enjoy them. St. Paul’s Cathedral, London, and Canterbury Cathedral in Kent County are central...
2 hours 46 minutes
