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By: Queen of Great Britain Victoria (1819-1901) | |
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The Letters of Queen Victoria : A Selection from Her Majesty's Correspondence between the Years 1837 and 1861 Volume 1, 1837-1843 |
By: R. (Robert) Van Bergen | |
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The Story of Russia |
By: R. A. (Rolfe Arnold) Scott-James (1878-) | |
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Personality in Literature | |
By: R. B. (Robert Bontine) Cunninghame Graham (1852-1936) | |
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A Vanished Arcadia: being some account of the Jesuits in Paraguay 1607-1767 |
By: R. B. Haldane (Richard Burdon Haldane) Haldane (1856-1928) | |
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Before the War |
By: R. C. (Robert Cooper) Seaton (1853-1915) | |
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Six Letters From the Colonies |
By: R. Cross | |
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The Voyage of the Oregon from San Francisco to Santiago in 1898 |
By: R. E. Cholmeley | |
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John Nicholson The Lion of the Punjaub |
By: R. F. Dearborn | |
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Saratoga and How to See It |
By: R. G. (Roderick George) MacBeth (1858-1934) | |
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Policing the Plains Being the Real-Life Record of the Famous North-West Mounted Police |
By: R. Hugh (Reginald Hugh) Knyvett (-1918) | |
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"Over There" with the Australians |
By: R. J. (Robert J.) Creswell | |
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Among the Sioux A Story of the Twin Cities and the Two Dakotas |
By: R. Lewis | |
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Over the top with the 25th Chronicle of events at Vimy Ridge and Courcellette |
By: R. Talbot (Robert Talbot) Kelly (1861-1934) | |
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Burma Peeps at Many Lands |
By: R. Talbot Kelly (1861-1934) | |
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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. |
By: R. Thurston (Robert Thurston) Hopkins (1884-1958) | |
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War and the Weird |
By: Rabindranath Tagore | |
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The Home and the World
Rabindranath Tagore (1861–1941), also known by the sobriquet Gurudev, was a Bengali poet, Brahmo religionist, visual artist, playwright, novelist, and composer whose works reshaped Bengali literature and music in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He became Asia’s first Nobel laureate when he won the 1913 Nobel Prize in Literature. The Home and the World is a 1916 novel, set in the estate of the rich Bengali noble Nikhil. He lives happily with his beautiful wife Bimala until the appearance of his friend and radical revolutionist, Sandip... |
By: Rafael Sabatini (1875-1950) | |
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Scaramouche
“He was born with a gift of laughter and a sense that the world was mad!” The wonderful opening lines of this 1921 novel set the tone for the rest of this delightful story of an adventurer and romantic who dons several roles in his colorful life. Scaramouche by Rafael Sabatini is an historical novel set in the turbulent times of the French Revolution. The plot describes Andre-Louis Moreau, a young lawyer adopted by his godfather who cannot reveal his parentage. Moreau inadvertently stumbles into political events and becomes a wanted man based on the evil machinations of a sinister Marquis... | |
The Tavern Knight
Follow the exploits of Sir Crispin Galliard, also known as The Tavern Knight, in his defence of the King of England against Cromwell and his Puritan Entourage. | |
The Life of Cesare Borgia | |
The Historical Nights' Entertainment | |
Love-at-Arms | |
The Trampling of the Lilies | |
Bardelys the Magnificent | |
The Shame of Motley | |
The Strolling Saint | |
The Suitors of Yvonne |
By: Raffaello Carboni (1817-1885) | |
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The Eureka Stockade |
By: Rajah of Sarawak James (1803-1868) | |
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The Expedition to Borneo of H.M.S. Dido For the Suppression of Piracy |
By: Ralph Bignell Ainsworth | |
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The Story of the 6th Battalion, The Durham Light Infantry France, April 1915-November 1918 |
By: Ralph Birdsall (1871-1918) | |
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The Story of Cooperstown |
By: Ralph Delahaye Paine (1871-1925) | |
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The Fight for a Free Sea: A Chronicle of the War of 1812 The Chronicles of America Series, Volume 17 | |
The Old Merchant Marine; A chronicle of American ships and sailors | |
Book of Buried Treasure
Described by the author as: BEING A TRUE HISTORY OF THE GOLD, JEWELS, AND PLATE OF PIRATES, GALLEONS, ETC., WHICH ARE SOUGHT FOR TO THIS DAY. Ralph Delahaye Paine was an American journalist and author popular in the early 20th century. Paine's book tells of pirates, heroes, scoundrels, and treasure seekers creating, stealing, seeking, and sometimes finding great wealth. It also tells of treasures yet undiscovered . It remains the stuff of dreams for countless kids growing up, and those of us who never grew up. - Summary by Tony Posante |
By: Ralph Keeler (1840-1873) | |
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Vagabond Adventures
Ralph Keeler failed as a novelist, but this autobiography reflects a life well-lived with humor and adventure. Keeler was in the same literary circle as satirist Bret Harte, novelist Charles Warren Stoddard, editor Thomas Bailey Aldrich, and essayist William Dean Howells. He so impressed Mark Twain that Twain wrote an essay about him called "Ralph Keeler". In 1873, on his way to Cuba, he reportedly was thrown overboard by a Spanish loyalist who objected to his backing of the revolutionary, anti-Spanish movement. - Summary by John Greenman |
By: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) | |
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Conduct of Life
This is the best of Emerson's later works, qualifying his earlier popular essays, series one and two, with the heavier hand of experience. The Conduct of Life ostensibly is a set of essays about how to live life, but also is an amalgam of what life taught Emerson. |
By: Ramsay Muir (1872-1941) | |
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The Expansion of Europe The Culmination of Modern History |
By: Randall Davies (1866-1946) | |
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Six Centuries of Painting |
By: Randall Parrish (1858-1923) | |
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My Lady of the North | |
My Lady of Doubt |
By: Raphaël Petrucci (1872-1917) | |
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Chinese Painters A Critical Study |
By: Ray Vaughn Pierce | |
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The People's Common Sense Medical Adviser
The People's Common Sense Medical Adviser In Plain English, Or, Medicine Simplified. By R.V. Pierce, M.D. INTRODUCTORY WORDS. Health and disease are physical conditions upon which pleasure and pain, success and failure, depend. Every individual gain increases public gain. Upon the health of its people is based the prosperity of a nation; by it every value is increased, every joy enhanced. Life is incomplete without the enjoyment of healthy organs and faculties, for these give rise to the delightful sensations of existence... |
By: Reginald Grant | |
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S.O.S. Stand to! |
By: Reginald R. Sharpe (1848-1925) | |
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London and the Kingdom - Volume I |
By: René Rapin (1621-1687) | |
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De Carmine Pastorali (1684) |
By: Reuben Gold Thwaites (1853-1913) | |
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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 going—the others went for the outing—was to gather "local color" for work in Western history. The Ohio River was an important factor in the development of the West. I wished to know the great waterway intimately in its various phases,—to see with my own eyes what the borderers saw; in imagination, to redress the pioneer stage, and repeople it. ( From the Preface ) | |
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 during the summer of 1887. There has been no attempt at exaggeration, to color its homely incidents, or to picture charms where none exist. It is intended to be a simple, truthful narrative of what was seen and done upon a series of novel outings through the heart of the Northwest. If it may induce others to undertake similar excursions, and thus increase the little navy of healthy and self-satisfied canoeists, the object of the publication will have been attained. |
By: Rex Beach (1877-1949) | |
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Flowing Gold
Unfairly given a dishonorable discharge from the army, Calvin Gray goes to Dallas, where he manages to win the trust of a jeweler and is able to sell a number of diamonds to the newly oil rich Briskows. He makes friends with the family and helps them adjust to their newly found riches. The Briskows, in turn, help him prove false the charges that caused his dismissal from the army. |
By: Rex Ellingwood Beach (1877-1949) | |
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Heart of the Sunset |
By: Rice S. Eubank | |
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The story of Kentucky |
By: Richard B. (Richard Biddle) Irwin (1839-1892) | |
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History of the Nineteenth Army Corps |
By: Richard B. Morris (1904-1989) | |
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Jeffersonians, 1801-1829
In this short work, Morris and Woodress present a selection of fascinating source materials to survey key events which occurred during the presidencies of Jefferson, Madison, Monroe, and John Quincy Adams. As the authors state in their preface, "The early part of the last century was an exciting time to live in America. The signers of the Declaration of Independence and the framers of the Constitution, mostly old men by now, saw that their experiment in republican government had turned out to be a success... |
By: Richard Burton Deane (1848-1940) | |
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Mounted Police Life in Canada : a record of thirty-one years' service (1916)
Learn more about the famous and respected Royal Canadian Mounted Police. This book is the personal recollections of one ‘Mountie’; his life, experiences and trials as an officer in a new frontier – The Canadian Northwest. |
By: Richard Chenevix Trench (1807-1886) | |
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English Past and Present |
By: Richard D. Blackmore (1825-1900) | |
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Springhaven : a Tale of the Great War |
By: Richard Darlington | |
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A Full Description of the Great Tornado in Chester County, Pa. |
By: Richard Ernest Nowell Twopeny (1857-1915) | |
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Town Life in Australia |
By: Richard Francis Burton (1821-1890) | |
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Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-madinah and Meccah
Sir Richard Francis Burton (1821 – 1890) was an English explorer, translator, writer, soldier, orientalist, ethnologist, linguist, poet, hypnotist, fencer and diplomat. He was known for his travels and explorations within Asia and Africa as well as his extraordinary knowledge of languages and cultures. According to one count, he spoke 29 European, Asian, and African languages.Burton's best-known achievements include traveling in disguise to Mecca, The Book of One Thousand Nights and A Night, an... | |
First Footsteps in East Africa |
By: Richard Haigh (1895-) | |
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Life in a Tank
Richard Haigh was an Infantry lieutenant in the 2nd Royal Berkshire Infantry Regiment serving in the Somme area in 1916. Shortly after Tanks were first used in battle in September of 1916 the British Army asked for volunteers, Lieutenant Haigh signed up and was accepted in December of 1916. He describes the training and actions he participated in until the war ended in 1918. He was awarded MC in 1916 as Lt. (acting Capt.) Richard Haigh, Royal Berkshire Regiment. He was commissioned from the RMC (Sandhurst) to the Berkshires 16th Feb 1915; on resigning his commission in 1919, he joined the General Reserve of Officers. |
By: Richard Hakluyt (1552-1616) | |
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Discovery of Muscovy |
By: Richard Harding Davis (1864-1916) | |
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Notes of a War Correspondent
Experiences and observations of the journalist in the Cuban-Spanish War, the Greek-Turkish War, the Spanish-American War, the South African War, and the Japanese-Russian War, accompanied by "A War Correspondent’s Kit." | |
Men of Zanzibar
This is the story of Hemingway, who, after a hunting trip in Uganda, settles in Zanzibar for a while to live among the English-speaking expatriate community on that island. While keeping his true identity well to himself, he falls in love with Ms. Polly Adair, the American Belle of the little society. But when he asks her to marry him, it seems that Ms. Adair has a secret... | |
Adventures and Letters of Richard Harding Davis | |
With the French in France and Salonika | |
With the Allies |
By: Richard Henry Bonnycastle (1791-1847) | |
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Canada and the Canadians Volume I | |
Canada and the Canadians, Vol. 2 |
By: Richard Henry Dana (1815-1882) | |
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To Cuba and Back |
By: Richard Henry Stoddard (1825-1903) | |
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Abraham Lincoln An Horatian Ode |
By: Richard Jefferies (1848-1887) | |
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Field and Hedgerow Being the Last Essays of Richard Jefferies | |
Nature Near London |
By: Richard Joseph Beamish (1879-) | |
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History of the World War, Vol. 3 |
By: Richard Lee Mason (-1824) | |
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Narrative of Richard Lee Mason in the Pioneer West, 1819 |
By: Richard Lovell Edgeworth (1744-1817) | |
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Richard Lovell Edgeworth A Selection From His Memoirs |
By: Richard Plantagenet Temple Nugent Brydges Chandos Grenville Buckingham and Chandos (1797-1861) | |
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Memoirs of the Court of George IV. 1820-1830 (Vol 1) From the Original Family Documents | |
Memoirs of the Courts and Cabinets of George the Third From the Original Family Documents, Volume 1 | |
Memoirs of the Court and Cabinets of George the Third From the Original Family Documents, Volume 2 |
By: Richard Taylor (1826-1879) | |
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Destruction and Reconstruction: Personal Experiences of the Late War |
By: Richard Twiss (1747-1821) | |
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A Trip to Paris in July and August 1792 |
By: Richard von Garbe (1857-1927) | |
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Akbar, Emperor of India |
By: Richard W. Church (1815-1890) | |
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Bacon
This investigation of Bacon the scholar and man of letters begins with a look at the early days ang progresses to his relationships with Queen Elizabeth and James I. It includes accounts of his positions as solicitor general, attorney-general, and chancellor. The book concludes with Bacon's failure, his overall philosophy, and summaries of his writings. |
By: Richard Whately (1787-1863) | |
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Historic Doubts Relative To Napoleon Buonaparte |
By: Richard William Church (1815-1890) | |
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Beginning of the Middle Ages
In 395 A.D. Theodosius, the last ruler of the undivided Roman Empire died. To his young and incompetent son, Honorius, he left the government of its western half. Honorius depended upon the great general, Stilicho, to withstand the Visigoths under Alaric. But when he fecklessly abandoned his general to execution by palace intriguers, Alaric conquered and sacked Rome . Thus opened the era of chaotic leadership, social disintegration, and barbarian conquest, which used to be called the Dark Ages. The Franks emerged and helped to found the temporal power of the Papacy... |
By: Richard Wilson (1887-1976) | |
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Indian Story Book
Richard Wilson has taken tales from the two great Indian epics, the Rāmāyaṇa and the Mahābhārata, as well as other early sources, and has retold them in English, in an effort to showcase to young English-speaking readers that 'oriental' stories share the same elements as tales they are used to. Love, hate, virtue, oppression, tenderness, bravery and resourcefulness and an ultimate desire to conquer evil. - Summary by Paraphrased from the Introduction |
By: Ring Lardner (1885-1933) | |
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Treat 'em Rough Letters from Jack the Kaiser Killer | |
The Real Dope |
By: Roald Amundsen (1872-1928) | |
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The South Pole; an account of the Norwegian Antarctic expedition in the Fram, 1910-12
In contrast to Scott’s South Pole expedition, Amundsen’s expedition benefited from good equipment, appropriate clothing, and a fundamentally different primary task (Amundsen did no surveying on his route south and is known to have taken only two photographs) Amundsen had a better understanding of dogs and their handling, and he used of skis more effectively. He pioneered an entirely new route to the Pole and they returned. In Amundsen’s own words: “Victory awaits him who has everything in order — luck, people call it... |
By: Robert Armitage Sterndale | |
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Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon
NATURAL HISTORY OF THE MAMMALIA OF INDIA AND CEYLON.By Robert A. Sterndale, F.R.G.S., F.Z.S., &C., PREFACE. This work is designed to meet an existing want, viz.: a popular manual of Indian Mammalia. At present the only work of the kind is one which treats exclusively of the Peninsula of India, and which consequently omits the more interesting types found in Assam, Burmah, and Ceylon, as well as the countries bordering the British Indian Empire on the North. The geographical limits of the present work have been extended to all territories likely to be reached by the sportsman from India, thus greatly enlarging the field of its usefulness... |