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Detective Fiction

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Arthur Griffiths - Rome Express

The passengers in the sleeping car of the Rome Express were just woken and informed that they will reach Paris soon, and a bustle ensues. Only one passenger cannot be awoken by the porter, no matter how loudly he...

Rapunzelina and 12 more 3 hours 54 minutes

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Incidents of Travel in Central America, Chiapas, and Yucatán, Vol. 2

Travel & Geography

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John Lloyd Stephens - Incidents of Travel in Central America, Chiapas, and Yucatán, Vol. 2

The year is 1838. The scene is the dense Honduran forest along the Copán River. Two men, John Lloyd Stephens and Frederick Catherwood, are about to rediscover Mayan civilization. Their guide, slashing through the...

Sue Anderson 17 hours 15 minutes

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Autobiography Memories and Experiences, Volume 2

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473

Moncure Daniel Conway - Autobiography Memories and Experiences, Volume 2

Moncure Daniel Conway was an American abolitionist, Unitarian, clergyman and author. This second volume of his autobiography covers the years from the US Civil War to roughly 1904. (Summary by JoeD)

Guero and 9 more 16 hours 52 minutes

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Travel & Geography

498

Reuben Gold Thwaites - Afloat on the Ohio

Afloat on the Ohio, An Historical Pilgrimage, of a Thousand Miles in a Skiff, From Redstone to Cairo. There were four of us pilgrims—my Wife, our Boy of ten and a half years, the Doctor, and I. My object in...

David Lawrence and 9 more 7 hours 21 minutes

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National Geographic Magazine Vol. 01 No. 2

Nature

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National Geographic Society - National Geographic Magazine Vol. 01 No. 2

National Geographic Magazine Volume 1 Number 2 published in 1889. Topics of articles are: Africa, its Past and Future Reports on: Geography of the Land Geography of the Sea Geography...

MJ Franck and 4 more 3 hours 2 minutes National Geographic Magazines

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Some Rambling Notes of an Idle Excursion

Action & Adventure Fiction

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Mark Twain - Some Rambling Notes of an Idle Excursion

Written for the Atlantic magazine in 1877, this is a collection of stories about a trip Mark Twain made with some friends to Bermuda. (Summary by John Greenman)

John Greenman 1 hour 43 minutes

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General Fiction

464

Frances Milton Trollope - Domestic Manners of the Americans

Next to de Alexis de Tocquville's almost contemporary Democracy in America, Frances Trollope's work may be the most famous (or at least notorious) dissection of manners and morals of the United States. The work was a...

Nicholas Clifford 11 hours 50 minutes

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Travel & Geography

452

Agnes Edwards - Old Coast Road From Boston to Plymouth

A delightful trip from Boston through a dozen South Shore towns to Plymouth, stopping in each to explore a bit of the local history and 'modern' highlights. Written in 1920, it's a great journey through the past....

Steve Mattern and 1 more 3 hours 47 minutes

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National Geographic Magazine Vol. 07 - 11. November 1896

Travel & Geography

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National Geographic Society - National Geographic Magazine Vol. 07 - 11. November 1896

The National Geographic Magazine, an illustrated monthly, the November Number. It includes the following articles: The Witwatersrand and the Revolt of the Uitlanders, by George F. Becker The Economic Aspects of...

Deborah Balm and 3 more 1 hour 34 minutes National Geographic Magazines

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*Non-fiction

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Mark Twain - Old Times on the Mississippi

Old Times on the Mississippi is a non-fiction work by Mark Twain. It was published in 1876. Originally published in serial form in the Atlantic Monthly, in 1875, this same work was published as chapters 4 through 17...

John Greenman 3 hours 38 minutes

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*Non-fiction

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Thomas Stevens - Around the World on a Bicycle, Vol. 2

Thomas Stevens was the first person to circle the globe by bicycle, a large-wheeled Ordinary. His journey started in April 1884 in San Francisco from where he cycled to Boston to take a steamer to England. Crossing...

William Tomcho and 6 more 19 hours 52 minutes

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General Fiction

498

Rudyard Kipling - Letters of Travel

Three books of travel writing (between them covering the USA, Canada, Japan and Egypt) by the Nobel Prize winning author of the Just So Stories and the Jungle Book. Rudyard Kipling (an Englishman born and raised in...

Tim Bulkeley 7 hours 44 minutes

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Stolen Bacillus and other stories H. G. Wells

Eight Keys to Eden Mark Clifton

Songs of Innocence and Experience (version 2) William Blake

Russian Realities and Problems: Lectures delivered at Cambridge in August 1916

Short Story Collection Vol. 081

Around the World with the Children Frank G. Carpenter

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