History
616
Harry A. Franck - Zone Policeman 88; A Close Range Study of the Panama Canal and Its Workers
Harry A. Franck was an American travel writer. After publishing Vagabond Journey Around the World , he spent 3 months in the Canal Zone of Panama as a census-taker and police officer. This work is a series of...
6 hours 15 minutes
Cooking
585
Maurice Grenville Kains - Culinary Herbs: Their Cultivation, Harvesting, Curing and Uses (Version 2)
Culinary Herbs may be regarded as the secret to preparing good food from antiquity to the the height of culinary art. Maurice Grenville Kains gives a thorough introduction the the subject considering the history of...
4 hours 17 minutes
Family
577
Elizabeth Prentiss - Little Susy's Little Servants
“As Little Susy had a kind mamma to take care of her, you will, perhaps, wonder why God gave her also, a great many servants of her own. He gave her so many, that you might spend your whole life in reading about them....
1 hour 37 minutes
Early Modern
520
Thomas Cleland Dawson - South American Republics, Part I
The question most frequently asked me since I began my stay in South America has been: «Why do they have so many revolutions there?» Possibly the events recounted in the following pages may help the reader to answer...
12 hours 20 minutes