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Action & Adventure Fiction

493

John David Borthwick - Gold Hunters (Borthwick)

This is a robust, rough and tumble, first-hand account of the early California gold rush years 1851-1854 by a Scottish adventurer and artist J. D. Borthwick. The first edition, published in 1857 was called Three Years...

Sue Anderson 11 hours 31 minutes

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Reminiscences of a Southern Hospital, by Its Matron

Memoirs

438

Phoebe Yates Pember - Reminiscences of a Southern Hospital, by Its Matron

Phoebe Yates Pember served as a matron in the Confederate Chimborazo military hospital in Richmond, Virginia, during the Civil War, overseeing a dietary kitchen serving meals to 300 or more wounded soldiers daily....

Sue Anderson 4 hours 18 minutes

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*Non-fiction

430

Geronimo - Geronimo’s Story of His Life

Geronimo’s Story of His Life is the oral life history of a legendary Apache warrior. Composed in 1905, while Geronimo was being held as a U.S. prisoner of war at Fort Sill, Oklahoma, Geronimo’s story found audience...

Sue Anderson 3 hours 48 minutes

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*Non-fiction

485

Sir Francis Galton - Art of Travel

The Art of Travel is a handbook of practical advice for the adventure seeking Victorian. We hear how to organize all steps of a voyage, from the very beginnings (qualifications of a traveller, how to organize an...

Availle and 16 more 13 hours 38 minutes

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History

426

Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca - Journey of Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca

Few stories of shipwreck and survival can equal that of the 16th century Spaniard Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca who, cast ashore near present day (USA) Tampa Bay, Florida, in 1528, survived eight years of hand-to-mouth...

Sue Anderson 4 hours 19 minutes

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On the Trail of Don Quixote, Being a Record of Rambles in the Ancient Province of La Mancha

Travel & Geography

410

August F. Jaccaci - On the Trail of Don Quixote, Being a Record of Rambles in the Ancient Province of La Mancha

On the Trail of Don Quixote is an engaging 1890’s “record of rambles in the Ancient Province of La Mancha” by two artist friends, French author August Jaccaci and Spanish illustrator Daniel Vierge. “Both lovers of...

Sue Anderson 3 hours 23 minutes

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Animals

508

Pliny the Elder - Natural History Volume 2

Naturalis Historia (Latin for «Natural History») is an encyclopedia published circa AD 77-79 by Pliny the Elder. It is one of the largest single works to have survived from the Roman empire to the modern day and...

Chris Danes and 17 more 4 hours 43 minutes The Natural History by Pliny

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Incidents of Travel in Central America, Chiapas, and Yucatán, Vol. 2

Travel & Geography

418

John Lloyd Stephens - Incidents of Travel in Central America, Chiapas, and Yucatán, Vol. 2

The year is 1838. The scene is the dense Honduran forest along the Copán River. Two men, John Lloyd Stephens and Frederick Catherwood, are about to rediscover Mayan civilization. Their guide, slashing through the...

Sue Anderson 17 hours 15 minutes

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Travel & Geography

490

Reuben Gold Thwaites - Afloat on the Ohio

Afloat on the Ohio, An Historical Pilgrimage, of a Thousand Miles in a Skiff, From Redstone to Cairo. There were four of us pilgrims—my Wife, our Boy of ten and a half years, the Doctor, and I. My object in...

David Lawrence and 9 more 7 hours 21 minutes

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Essays & Short Works

491

Short Nonfiction Collection Vol. 026

A collection of short nonfiction works in the public domain. The selections included in this collection were independently chosen by the readers, and the topics encompass history, travel, embroidery, science,...

Eberle Thomas and 15 more 5 hours 44 minutes Short Nonfiction Collections

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Action & Adventure Fiction

452

Reuben Gold Thwaites - Historic Waterways

Historic Waterways, Six Hundred Miles of Canoeing down the Rock, Fox and Wisconsin Rivers. This volume is the record of six hundred miles of canoeing experiences on historic waterways in Wisconsin and Illinois...

Linda Fredericks and 8 more 6 hours 9 minutes

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Incidents of Travel in Central America, Chiapas, and Yucatan, Vol. 1

Travel & Geography

427

John Lloyd Stephens - Incidents of Travel in Central America, Chiapas, and Yucatan, Vol. 1

The year is 1838. The scene is the dense Honduran forest along the Copán River. Two men, John Lloyd Stephens and Frederick Catherwood, are about to rediscover Mayan civilization. Their guide, slashing through the...

Sue Anderson 15 hours 11 minutes

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