Poetry
783
George Sterling - House of Orchids and Other Poems
This is a 1911 volume of poems by California poet George Sterling. Sterling was a particularly celebrated poet during his life time in California, though his fame remained local and hardly spread to the other shore of...
1 hour 50 minutes
Religion
764
Oliver Optic - In School and Out; The Conquest of Richard Grant
The second volume of the Woodville Stories contains the experience of Richard Grant, «in school and out.» We are sorry to say that Richard had become a bad boy, and was in the habit of getting into the most abominable...
4 hours 50 minutes
War & Military
692
N. P. Dawson - Good Soldier; A Selection Of Soldiers' Letters, 1914-1918
“Here are boys, all sorts of boys: French, English, Italian, American… These are soldiers’ letters written home. But reading, one finds that he does not think of them as letters at all, but as boys… but the spirit of...
3 hours 57 minutes
Memoirs
578
Albert Millican - Travels and adventures of an orchid hunter: An account of canoe and camp life in Colombia, while collecting orchids in the northern Andes
This is quite the adventure tale and travelog. We see cities, peoples, plants and wildlife of Columbia and the ports our intrepid 'hunter' visits on the way there and back. It is an interesting period; a canal is...
4 hours 47 minutes
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