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Julia M. Grundy - Ten Days in the Light of Acca

This work is the story of a pilgrimage made over a hundred years ago by a group of American pilgrims. They were not headed for Canterbury, Rome or Jerusalem. Rather, they were headed for an historical but remote...

Nicholas James Bridgewater 3 hours 49 minutes

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E. V. Lucas - Highways and Byways in Sussex

A very personal and opinionated wander through the Sussex of around 1900, illustrated with anecdotes, literary and poetic quotations, gravestone epitaphs and a gentle sense of humour. The author colours the...

Peter Yearsley 13 hours 51 minutes

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Anthologies

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Collection: Tales of the Cities

This is a collection of city stories, fiction or non-fiction, in English and published before 1923. Contributions have been chosen by the readers themselves. Summary by BellonaTimes.

Bellona Times 2 hours 57 minutes

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Narrative of the Expedition to Botany-Bay

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Watkin Tench - Narrative of the Expedition to Botany-Bay

Watkin Tench was an officer of the British Marines in the First Fleet to settle NSW. This is an interesting and entertaining account of his experiences during that time (Introduction by Tabithat)

tabithat 2 hours 20 minutes

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British Highways And Byways From A Motor Car

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Thomas Dowler Murphy - British Highways And Byways From A Motor Car

In this chronicle of a summer's motoring in Britain I have not attempted a guide-book in any sense, yet the maps, together with the comments on highways, towns, and country, should be of some value even in that...

Christine Blachford 6 hours 4 minutes

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John Muir - Travels in Alaska

In 1879 John Muir went to Alaska for the first time. Its stupendous living glaciers aroused his unbounded interest, for they enabled him to verify his theories of glacial action. Again and again he returned to this...

Esther and 9 more 9 hours 6 minutes

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May Kellogg Sullivan - Woman Who Went to Alaska

Alaska has only been a state since 1959, and the breathtaking terrain remains mostly unspoiled and natural. In modern times, many of us have had the pleasure of visiting Alaska via a luxurious cruise ship, where we...

Karen Commins 10 hours 29 minutes

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Travel & Geography

453

Sir Henry W. Lucy - East by West, Vol. 1

East by West: a Journey in the Recess is an account of British journalist Henry Lucy's travels across America and on to the Far East during the parliamentary recess in 1883. Lucy was one of the most...

Ruth Golding 7 hours 52 minutes East by West

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William Dean Howells - Little Swiss Sojourn

A charming brief account of a two months' autumnal stay on the shores of the Lake of Geneva. Howells, who was there with his family traveling from England to Italy, has a sharp eye not only for scenery and...

Nicholas Clifford 1 hour 38 minutes

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Travel & Geography

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Edward Granville Browne - Year Amongst the Persians

Edward Granville Browne, born in Stouts Hill, Uley, Gloucestershire, England, was a British orientalist who published numerous articles and books of academic value, mainly in the areas of history and literature. His...

Nicholas James Bridgewater and 3 more 29 hours 9 minutes

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W. Somerset Maugham - On a Chinese Screen

This is a non-fiction collection of Maugham's observations of life in Asia in the early 20th Century. (Summary by BellonaTimes)

Bellona Times and 7 more 5 hours 8 minutes

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Ferdinand Ossendowski - Beasts, Men and Gods

“Beasts, Men and Gods” is an account of an epic journey, filled with perils and narrow escapes, in the mold of “The Lord of the Rings.” The difference is: it’s all true. Ferdinand Ossendowski was a Pole who...

Mark F. Smith 8 hours 59 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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