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Loafing Along Death Valley Trails; A Personal Narrative Of People And Places

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William Caruthers - Loafing Along Death Valley Trails; A Personal Narrative Of People And Places

William Caruthers was a retired newspaperman who spent 25 years listening to stories told by the inhabitants of Death Valley. This 1951 book collects those stories; the printed version has many interesting pictures....

David Wales 7 hours 35 minutes

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Excursion to the Lakes in Westmoreland and Cumberland, August 1773

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William Hutchinson - Excursion to the Lakes in Westmoreland and Cumberland, August 1773

In the summer of 1773, lawyer and antiquarian William Hutchinson set out from his home in County Durham on a tour of the English Lake District. Accompanied by his brother, George Allan, he travelled by horseback from...

Phil Benson 2 hours 26 minutes

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Etheria - Pilgrimage Of Etheria

This (probably) late fourth century common era (A.D.) narrative of a Christian pilgrimage is the earliest such text which survives to us. It is an important source of information about early Christian practices. This...

David Wales 2 hours 17 minutes

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Mountain Adventures in the Various Countries of the World

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John Timbs - Mountain Adventures in the Various Countries of the World

Mountains have always been fascinating as places of special adventure. This book. first published in 1869, collects true stories of real-life adventurers climbing the world's most famous and most challenging...

Gail Timmerman Vaughan and 12 more 8 hours 14 minutes

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John Edward Marr - North Lancashire

Cambridge County Geographies was a 75 volume series covering the counties of England, Scotland and Wales. Separate volumes were produced for Lancashire north and south of the River Ribble. J. E. Marr's volume on North...

Phil Benson 3 hours 37 minutes

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Herodotus - Account of Egypt by Herodotus

HERODOTUS was born at Halicarnassus, on the southwest coast of Asia Minor, in the early part of the fifth century, B. C. Of his life we know almost nothing, except that he spent much of it traveling, to collect the...

Phil Chenevert and 5 more 3 hours 42 minutes

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National Geographic Magazine Vol. 08 - 09. September 1897

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National Geographic Society - National Geographic Magazine Vol. 08 - 09. September 1897

The National Geographic Magazine, an illustrated monthly, the September Number. It includes the following articles: Modification of the Great Lakes by Earth Movement, by G. K. Gilbert The Toronto Meeting of...

Availle and 1 more 1 hour 47 minutes National Geographic Magazines

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Tickner Edwardes - Lift-Luck on Southern Roads

Here for you is the tale of my latest solitary ramble. The journey covers, as you shall see, some two hundred odd miles, through five southern counties of England, and was conceived on an unusual plan. To keep clear...

Steve C 9 hours 38 minutes

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Celebrated Women Travellers of the Nineteenth Century

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W. H. Davenport Adams - Celebrated Women Travellers of the Nineteenth Century

The nineteenth century saw the expansion in popularity of travel among the wealthy. Add to this the independence more women were enjoying as they were released from work in the home, and we have the recipe for some...

Ellies and 10 more 12 hours 30 minutes

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Ernest Ingersoll - Book of the Ocean

The Book of the Ocean is precisely what its title promises. It contains a rather broad overview of all topics connected to the ocean, such as its geography and the history of the exploration of the oceans. Besides the...

Larry Wilson and 9 more 11 hours 12 minutes

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Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides with Samuel Johnson

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James Boswell - Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides with Samuel Johnson

An anecdotal account of the journey undertaken by James Boswell and Samuel Johnson to the Scottish Highlands and the Hebrides Islands — Summary by Anthony Ogus

Anthony Ogus 12 hours 8 minutes

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Ins and Outs of Paris or Paris by Day and Night

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Julie de Marguerittes - Ins and Outs of Paris or Paris by Day and Night

Paris has been often described, by travelers, by artists, by savants, by friends and by enemies, yet it was after reading most of the works descriptive of Paris that I felt how much there was still to be written, if...

Celine Major 9 hours 18 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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