Travel & Geography

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John Overton Choules - Young Americans Abroad

It’s 1851 and the Crystal Palace Exhibition is on in England. English American the Reverend Dr. Choules leaves Newport, Rhode Island with three teenaged students — James Robinson, George Vanderbuilt, and Weld French,...

Sibella Denton 8 hours 15 minutes

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Essays & Short Works

538

Rudyard Kipling - American Notes

In American Notes, Rudyard Kipling, the Nobel Prize-winning author of the Jungle Book, visits the USA. As the travel-diary of an Anglo-Indian Imperialist visiting the USA, these American Notes offer an interesting...

Tim Bulkeley 2 hours 47 minutes

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Travel & Geography

486

Harold W. Fairbanks - Western United States

«In preparation of this book the author has had in mind the needs of the upper grammar grades. The subject matter has not been selected with the object of covering the field of Western geography in a systematic...

Laura Caldwell 6 hours 51 minutes

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Travel & Geography

497

Mary H. Kingsley - Travels in West Africa

Mary Henrietta Kingsley (13 October 1862 – 3 June 1900) was an British explorer and writer who greatly influenced European ideas about Africa and its people. Kingsley was an outspoken critic of European colonialism,...

Nathalie J. 20 hours 8 minutes

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490

Lucie Duff-Gordon - Letters from Egypt

As a girl, Lady Duff-Gordon was noted both for her beauty and intelligence. As an author, she is most famous for this collection of letters from Egypt. Lady Duff-Gordon had tuberculosis, and went to Egypt for her...

Sibella Denton 13 hours 2 minutes

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Travel & Geography

522

R. Talbot Kelly - Peeps at Many Lands: Egypt

A short travelogue of Egypt, this book was written as part of an early 20th century series of travelogues on exotic destinations. (Summary by Sibella Denton).

Sibella Denton 2 hours 19 minutes

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Visit to the Holy Land, Egypt, and Italy

Travel & Geography

482

Ida Laura Pfeiffer - Visit to the Holy Land, Egypt, and Italy

Ida Pfeiffer travelled alone in an era when women didn't travel. She went first on a pilgrimage to the Holy Land, then went on to Egypt and Italy. Understanding the difficulties a woman would face travelling alone...

Sibella Denton 11 hours 4 minutes

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Humorous Fiction

518

Irvin S. Cobb - Europe Revised

Irwin Cobb's humorous Europe Revised is a travelogue and comedy almost in the style of Mark Twain. The dedication says it best, «To My Small Daughter Who bade me shed a tear at the tomb of Napoleon, which I was...

Sibella Denton 9 hours 13 minutes

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Travel & Geography

464

Robert Smythe Hichens - Spell of Egypt

The author, a British journalist and novelist, is interested in the feel of the places he visits. He describes at length a visit he has made to Egypt, with emphasis on the emotional response the places generate....

Sibella Denton 4 hours 3 minutes

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General Fiction

474

Sarah Orne Jewett - Deephaven

Sarah Orne Jewett is best known for her clean and clear descriptive powers that at once elevate common-place daily events to something remarkable, and lend dignity and grace to the most humble and homely human...

Betsie Bush 5 hours 18 minutes

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510

John Wesley Powell - Canyons of the Colorado

John Wesley Powell was a pioneer American explorer, ethnologist, and geologist in the 19th Century. In 1869 he set out to explore the Colorado and the Grand Canyon. He gathered nine men, four boats and food for ten...

Joan Freeman and 9 more 8 hours 7 minutes

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Charles Darwin - Voyage of the Beagle

The book, also known as Darwin's Journal of Researches, is a vivid and exciting travel memoir as well as a detailed scientific field journal covering biology, geology, and anthropology that demonstrates Darwin's keen...

Roger Turnau and 20 more 21 hours 50 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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