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Travel & Geography

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Thomas Gaskell Allen - Across Asia on a Bicycle

In 1890, two Americans newly graduated from college set out to travel around the world on a then-new invention, the modern bicycle. In 1893 they returned, have covered over 15,000 miles, at that time the «longest...

pyfeman43 and 8 more 5 hours 40 minutes

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Celebrated Travels and Travellers, vol. 3

Exploration

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Jules Verne - Celebrated Travels and Travellers, vol. 3

This volume, entitled «The great explorers of the 19th century», forms the third of three volumes under the general title of «Celebrated travels and travellers». Volume three comprehends: «The dawn of a century...

Ed Villines and 10 more 17 hours 35 minutes

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Criminal Investigation: a Practical Handbook for Magistrates, Police Officers and Lawyers, Volume 1

Psychology

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Hans Gross - Criminal Investigation: a Practical Handbook for Magistrates, Police Officers and Lawyers, Volume 1

Reputedly inspired by the Sherlock Holmes stories, Austrian criminal jurist and examining magistrate Hans Gross wrote the first handbook on criminal investigation. This treatise covers everything from the qualities of...

Availle and 13 more 15 hours 44 minutes

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Essays & Short Works

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Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 036

Eighteen short nonfiction works in the public domain, independently chosen by the readers. Topics include the discovery of X-rays, earthquakes, Hegel, Sir William Osler, Charles William Eliot, Oscar Wilde, Charles...

Glenn O'Brien and 11 more 5 hours 58 minutes Short Nonfiction Collections

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Culture & Heritage Fiction

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Mary Grant Bruce - Stone Axe Of Burkamukk

Mary Grant Bruce was an Australian children's writer who spent one year collecting Aboriginal stories in Gippsland — a part of Victoria which it is thought had a dense population of the early Australians. Sadly, now...

Availle and 9 more 6 hours 56 minutes

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Astronomy, Physics & Mechanics

458

Walter Kellogg Towers - Masters of Space

This is the story of talking at a distance, of sending messages through space. It is the story of great men—Morse, Thomson, Bell, Marconi, and others—and how, with the aid of men like Field, Vail, Catty, Pupin, the...

Mark and 9 more 5 hours 55 minutes

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Crafts & Hobbies

474

Arthur Gray - Little Tea Book

After all, tea is the drink! Domestically and socially it is the beverage of the world. There may be those who will come forward with their figures to prove that other fruits of the soil—agriculturally and...

Rosslyn Carlyle and 6 more 1 hour 41 minutes

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Law

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Emmerson W. Manning - Practical Instruction for Detectives

Having been connected for many years with two of the largest and most successful private detective agencies in this country, both as an operator and as an official, and having been requested to outline briefly and...

fiddlesticks and 4 more 2 hours 38 minutes

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Essays & Short Works

471

Henry Parker Manning - Fourth Dimension Simply Explained

In January 1909 a friend of the Scientific American paid the sum of 500$ which was to be awarded as a prize for the best popular explanation of the Fourth Dimension. The object being to set forth in an essay not...

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Travel & Geography

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National Geographic Society - National Geographic Magazine Vol. 04

The National Geographic Magazine Volume 4, articles published in 1892 and 1893. The Evolution of Commerce: Annual Address by the President, Gardiner G. Hubbard Studies of Muir Glacier, Alaska Geography of the...

MaryAnn and 5 more 8 hours 42 minutes National Geographic Magazines

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Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Scientists

Biography & Autobiography

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Elbert Hubbard - Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Scientists

Elbert Hubbard describes the homes of authors, poets, social reformers and other prestigious people, reflecting on how their surroundings may have influenced them. These short essays are part biography and part...

Robin Cotter and 8 more 9 hours 39 minutes Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great

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Animals

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John Burroughs - Bird Stories from Burroughs

What a better way to learn about birds than to read this delightful collection of interesting bird stories! John Burroughs was a nature essayist. These creative, observation- and emotion-driven stories about birds...

Sandra Cullum and 7 more 4 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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