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Narrative of the Expedition to Dongola and Sennaar

War & Military

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George Bethune English - Narrative of the Expedition to Dongola and Sennaar

As a second lieutenant in the United States Marine Corps during the War of 1812 assigned to Marine Corps headquarters, English sailed to the Mediterranean, and was among the first citizens of the United States known...

R. S. Steinberg 4 hours 4 minutes

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General Fiction

Charles Norris Williamson - Golden Silence

Trying to get away from an engagement he had got himself into more or less against his will, Stephen Knight travels to Algiers to visit his old friend Nevill. On the Journey there he meets the charming and beautiful...

Jules Hawryluk and 5 more 20 hours 7 minutes

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Nature

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Mary Hunter Austin - Land of Little Rain

The Land of Little Rain is a book of sketches which portray the high desert country of southern California, where the Sierras descend into the Mojave Desert. Mary Austin finds beauty in the harsh landscape: «This is...

Sue Anderson 4 hours 19 minutes

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Art, Design & Architecture

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John Ruskin - Stones of Venice, Volume 1

The Stones of Venice is a three-volume treatise on Venetian art and architecture by English art historian John Ruskin, first published from 1851 to 1853. Intending to prove how the architecture in Venice exemplified...

Stephanie Lee and 11 more 14 hours 13 minutes The Stones of Venice

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Through Glacier Park, Seeing America First with Howard Eaton

Action & Adventure Fiction

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Mary Roberts Rinehart - Through Glacier Park, Seeing America First with Howard Eaton

This is about a three-hundred mile trip across the Rocky Mountains on horseback with Howard Eaton. It is about fishing, and cool nights around a camp-fire, and long days on the trail. It is about a party of all sorts,...

Laura Victoria 1 hour 28 minutes

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Queensland Railways - Tours in the South Coast District

An early booklet, designed to encourage tourism in the northern parts of New South Wales, and the southern parts of Queensland, particularly the area now in the Gold Coast. (Introduction by Timothy Ferguson)

Timothy Ferguson 1 hour 9 minutes

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James T. Nichols - Birdseye Views of Far Lands

Birdseye Views of Far Lands is an interesting, wholesome presentation of something that a keen-eyed, alert traveler with the faculty of making contrasts with all classes of people in all sorts of places, in such...

RudeJohn and 12 more 6 hours 23 minutes

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Francis Archibald Bruton - Lancashire

The county of Lancashire in the north-west of England is best known as the engine room of the nineteenth-century Industrial Revolution. Steering clear of the industrial districts, F. A. Bruton takes the reader on an...

Phil Benson 5 hours 58 minutes

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Science

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Agnes von Blomberg Bensly - Our Journey to Sinai

Fortress-walled Saint Catherine's monastery on the Sinai peninsula has been a pilgrimage site since its founding by the Byzantine Emperor Justinian in the 6th century. According to tradition, the monastery sits at the...

Sue Anderson 4 hours 41 minutes

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Charles Dickens - American Notes for General Circulation

American Notes for General Circulation is a travelogue by Charles Dickens detailing his trip to North America from January to June, 1842. While there he acted as a critical observer of these societies almost as if...

Alisson Veldhuis and 6 more 11 hours 11 minutes

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By Ox Team to California - A Narrative of Crossing the Plains in 1860

Travel & Geography

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Lavinia Honeyman Porter - By Ox Team to California - A Narrative of Crossing the Plains in 1860

Imagine a young, twenty-something woman in 1860, reared “in the indolent life of the ordinary Southern girl” (which means she has never learned to cook); married to a professional man who knows “nothing of manual...

Sue Anderson 4 hours 52 minutes

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Piloting Directions for the Gulf of Finland

Travel & Geography

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John William Norie - Piloting Directions for the Gulf of Finland

Norie's series of piloting and sailing directions was something of a staple in the chart-room of 19th century British (and other) merchant vessels. The description of landmarks and ports, as well as the rules and...

Pentti Hirvonen and 3 more 2 hours 10 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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