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Frank G. Carpenter - Around the World with the Children

An introduction to world geography for young and old alike. Topics such as China, Japan, the American Indian, Europe and the oceans on a beginning level. Summary by BettyB

BettyB 2 hours 53 minutes

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Science

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Pliny the Elder - Boys' and Girls' Pliny Vol. 3

The Natural History of Pliny the Elder is one of the largest single works to have survived from the Roman Empire. The full work consists of 37 books, covering more than 20.000 topics ranging from astronomy and...

Foon 3 hours 3 minutes

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Golden Bough: The Magic Art and the Evolution of Kings, Volume 1

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James Frazer - Golden Bough: The Magic Art and the Evolution of Kings, Volume 1

The first volume in Frazer's seminal 12 volume set on anthropology and traditional systems of belief. Topics covered include extensive discussion on the belief in sympathetic and contagious magic, magical influence on...

Leon Harvey 1 hour 8 minutes

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Classics (Greek & Latin Antiquity)

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Pliny the Elder - Boys' and Girls' Pliny Vol. 1

The Natural History of Pliny the Elder is one of the largest single works to have survived from the Roman Empire. The full work consists of 37 books, covering more than 20.000 topics ranging from astronomy and...

Foon 2 hours 6 minutes

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Animals

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William Ruschenberger - Elements of Conchology

The fifth of the Series of First Books of Natural History, embraces that branch of our subject which treats of the Mollusca, or soft animals, and consequently, includes the Elements of Conchology. In the beauty and...

Lauren Huff and 1 more 3 hours 20 minutes

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Animals

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Frank Evers Beddard - Book of Whales

A Book of Whales is a natural history of whales for the layman. — Summary by A. Gramour

Pinchcliff and 8 more 10 hours 24 minutes

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Nature

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Frank Albert Waugh - Dwarf Fruit Trees

This book is a handbook for the home orchardist. The propagation, pruning, choice of variety, and management of dwarf fruit trees, specifically apples, pears, peaches, and plums, are outlined. In addition, there is a...

Ian Bradford Ngotngotaha Pugh and 2 more 2 hours 35 minutes

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*Non-fiction

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Nathaniel C. Fowler, Jr. - 1000 Things Worth Knowing

Part almanac, part encyclopedia, part dictionary, Nathaniel C. Fowler, Jr. gives us his idea of important, but sometimes obscure, facts that he thinks should be in our bank of general knowledge. He includes a large...

Larry Wilson and 14 more 8 hours 27 minutes

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Reference

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Asa Gray - Elements of Botany

The book is intended to ground beginners in Structural Botany and the principles of vegetable life, mainly as concerns Flowering or Phanerogamous plants, with which botanical instruction should always begin; also to...

J. M. Smallheer and 7 more 7 hours 45 minutes

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Biography & Autobiography

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Sarah Knowles Bolton - Some Articles About Mark Twain

«Samuel Langhorne Clemens», «Mark Twain At Home», «Youth of Mark Twain» & «Mark Twain Gossip» Published in the June 16, 1888 edition of «Literature — An Illustrated Weekly Magazine» (Vol. 1, No. 17) these four,...

John Greenman 41 minutes

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Wayside and Woodland Trees: Pocket guide to the British Sylva

Nature

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Edward Step - Wayside and Woodland Trees: Pocket guide to the British Sylva

«The purpose of this volume is not the addition of one more to the numerous treatises upon sylviculture or forestry, but to afford a straightforward means for the identification of our native trees and larger shrubs...

KHand 4 hours 30 minutes

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Family & Relationships

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Frank Allaben - Concerning Genealogies

Written over a century ago, this comprehensive book offers insight into the methods used (still to this day, in spite of modern computers) to research and compile a family history. As stated in the preface of the...

Roger Melin 1 hour 56 minutes

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