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By: Edward Money | |
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The Truth About America |
By: James F. (James Fullarton) Muirhead (1853-1934) | |
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The Land of Contrasts A Briton's View of His American Kin | |
By: Jessie Margaret Edmondston Saxby (1842-1940) | |
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Viking Boys |
By: Hugh Jones (1669-1760) | |
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The Present State of Virginia |
By: Henry J. (Henry John) Coke (1827-1916) | |
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Tracks of a Rolling Stone |
By: C. F. (Charles Finch) Dowsett (1836?-1915) | |
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A start in life. A journey across America. Fruit farming in California |
By: Augustus Hopkins Strong (1836-1921) | |
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A Tour of the Missions Observations and Conclusions |
By: Margaret Moran Dixon McDougall (1826-1898) | |
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The Letters of "Norah" on Her Tour Through Ireland |
By: Orville O. Hiestand | |
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See America First |
By: E. W. (Edward William) Watkin (1819-1901) | |
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Canada and the States |
By: Julia M. Sloane | |
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The Smiling Hill-Top And Other California Sketches |
By: P. H. (Peter Harden) Eley (1876-) | |
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An Epoch in History |
By: lieutenant-colonel (Ninian) Pinkney (1776-1825) | |
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Travels through the South of France and the Interior of Provinces of Provence and Languedoc in the Years 1807 and 1808 |
By: Herbert Adams Gibbons (1880-1934) | |
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Riviera Towns |
By: S. B. C. (Susan Blagge Caldwell) Samuels (1848-1931) | |
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Eric or, Under the Sea |
By: W. B. Cramp | |
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Narrative of a Voyage to India; of a Shipwreck on board the Lady Castlereagh; and a Description of New South Wales |
By: Eliza B. (Eliza Brown) Chase | |
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Over the Border: Acadia, the Home of "Evangeline" |
By: Jonathan Prince Cilley (1835-1920) | |
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Bowdoin Boys in Labrador An Account of the Bowdoin College Scientific Expedition to Labrador led by Prof. Leslie A. Lee of the Biological Department |
By: R. Cross | |
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The Voyage of the Oregon from San Francisco to Santiago in 1898 |
By: Thomas Dykes Beasley | |
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A Tramp Through the Bret Harte Country |
By: Edward Feild (1801-1876) | |
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Extracts from a Journal of a Voyage of Visitation in the "Hawk," 1859 |
By: Elmer Ulysses Hoenshel (1864-) | |
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My Three Days in Gilead |
By: James Seaton Cockburn | |
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Canada for Gentlemen |
By: Andrew Y. Wood | |
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Fascinating San Francisco |
By: Richard Twiss (1747-1821) | |
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A Trip to Paris in July and August 1792 |
By: Walter Goodman (1838-1912) | |
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The Pearl of the Antilles, or An Artist in Cuba |
By: Clara Rayleigh (-1900) | |
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The British Association's Visit to Montreal, 1884 : letters |
By: Julia de Winton | |
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Yr Ynys Unyg The Lonely Island |
By: John Taylor (1580-1653) | |
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The Pennyles Pilgrimage Or The Money-lesse Perambulation of John Taylor |
By: Ledyard Bill | |
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Minnesota; Its Character and Climate Likewise Sketches of Other Resorts Favorable to Invalids; Together With Copious Notes on Health; Also Hints to Tourists and Emigrants. |
By: R. C. (Robert Cooper) Seaton (1853-1915) | |
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Six Letters From the Colonies |
By: Almira Stillwell Cole | |
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Six Days on the Hurricane Deck of a Mule An account of a journey made on mule back in Honduras, C.A. in August, 1891 |
By: John Richard Greene (1837-1883) | |
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Stray Studies from England and Italy |
By: Unknown | |
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The Romance of Missionary Heroism
The title page gives this book the subtitle, “True stories of the intrepid bravery and stirring adventures of missionaries with uncivilized man, wild beasts, and the forces of nature in all parts of the world.” The thrilling accounts in this collection include stories of Jacob Chamberlain’s medical ministry in India, the dangers faced by Alexander Mackay in Uganda, James Chalmers’ work among the headhunters of New Guinea, John Paton’s mission to the South Sea cannibals, and the Hawaiian queen Kapiolani’s challenge to the gods of the volcano... |
By: Various | |
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Collection: Tales of the Cities
This is a collection of city stories, fiction or non-fiction, in English and published before 1923. Contributions have been chosen by the reader himself. |
By: John Lloyd Stephens (1805-1852) | |
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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 rampant growth with his machete, leads them to a structure with steps up the side, shaped like a pyramid. Next they see a stone column, fourteen feet high, sculptured on the front with a portrait of a man, “solemn, stern and well fitted to excite terror,” covered on the sides with hieroglyphics, and with workmanship “equal to the finest monuments of the Egyptians... |
By: Mark Twain (1835-1910) | |
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Old times on the Mississippi
Old Times on the Mississippi is a non-fiction work by Mark Twain. It was published in 1876. Originally published in serial form in the Atlantic Monthly, in 1875, this same work was published as chapters 4 through 17 in Twain's later work, Life on the Mississippi (1883). Old Times on the the Mississippi has one last chapter that has nothing to do with the rest of the book. A Literary Nightmare describes the funny/sad/maddening effect that a catchy jingle can have on those unlucky enough to be captured by one. |
By: Unknown (551 BC - 479 BC) | |
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The Analects of Confucius (from the Chinese Classics) |
By: Edna Brush Perkins (1880-1930) | |
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The White Heart of Mojave
"The White Heart of the Mojave" recounts a 1920's adventure "in the wind and sun and big spaces" of Death Valley by two independent minded women, Edna Brush Perkins and Charlotte Hannahs Jordan. Both women were early feminists, Edna as chairwoman of the greater Cleveland Woman's Suffrage Party (1916-18). At the end of the Great War, the two friends wanted nothing more than to escape "to the solitariness of some wild and lonely place far from city halls, smokestacks, national organizations, and streets of little houses all alike... |
By: Washington Irving (1783-1859) | |
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The Alhambra: A Series of Tales and Sketches of the Moors and Spaniards
This is a collection of essays, verbal sketches, and stories by Washington Irving. Irving lived at the Alhambra Palace while writing some of the material for his book. In 1828, Washington Irving traveled from Madrid, where he had been staying, to Granada, Spain. At first sight, he described it as "a most picturesque and beautiful city, situated in one of the loveliest landscapes that I have ever seen." He immediately asked the then-governor of the historic Alhambra Palace as well as the archbishop of Granada for access to the palace, which was granted because of Irving's celebrity status... |
By: Francis Archibald Bruton (1869-1929) | |
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Lancashire
The county of Lancashire in the north-west of England is best known as the engine room of the nineteenth-century Industrial Revolution. Steering clear of the industrial districts, F. A. Bruton takes the reader on an engaging tour of the county's beauty spots and lesser known landscapes. Taking the view that the charm of a district is nothing without its historical associations, Bruton packs his account with historical detail and literary references to, among others, Leland, Wordsworth, Ruskin, Arnold, and Mrs. Carlyle. (Introduction by Phil Benson) |
By: James T. Nichols (1865-?) | |
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Birdseye Views of Far Lands
Birdseye Views of Far Lands is an interesting, wholesome presentation of something that a keen-eyed, alert traveler with the faculty of making contrasts with all classes of people in all sorts of places, in such a sympathetic way as to win their esteem and confidence, has been able to pick up as he has roamed over the face of the earth for a quarter of a century.The book is not a geography, a history, a treatise on sociology or political economy. It is a Human Interest book which appeals to the reader who would like to go as the writer has gone and to see as the writer has seen the conformations of surface, the phenomena of nature and the human group that make up what we call a "world... |
By: John Lloyd Stephens (1805-1852) | |
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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 rampant growth with his machete, leads them to a stone column, fourteen feet high, sculptured on the front with a portrait of a man, “solemn, stern and well fitted to excite terror,” covered on the sides with hieroglyphics, and with workmanship “equal to the finest monuments of the Egyptians... |
By: William Alexander MacKay (1842-1905) | |
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Zorra Boys at Home and Abroad, or, How to Succeed
By Zorra, in the following sketches, is meant a little district in Oxford county, Ontario, some ten miles square, composed of part of East and part of West Zorra, and containing a population of about fourteen hundred. It was settled about the year 1830, chiefly by Highlanders from Sutherlandshire, Scotland.Within the last forty years there have gone from this district over one hundred young men who have made their mark in the world. With most of these it has been the writer's good fortune to be personally and intimately acquainted; and companionship with some of them has been to him a pleasure and a benefit... |
By: Haji A. Browne | |
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Bonaparte in Egypt and the Egyptians of To-day
Knowing the Egyptian as I know him, I cannot but think that he is greatly misunderstood, even by those who are sincerely anxious to befriend him. His faults and his failings are to be found at large in almost any of the scores of books that have of late years been written about him and his country; but, though not a few have given him credit for some of his more salient good points, yet none that I have seen have shown any just appreciation of him as he really is. (From the Preface) |
By: John Charles Van Dyke (1856-1932) | |
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The Desert, Further Studies in Natural Appearances
The Desert by John Charles Van Dyke, published in 1901, is a lush, poetic description of the natural beauty of the American Southwest. "What land can equal the desert with its wide plains, its grim mountains, and its expanding canopy of sky!" Van Dyke, a cultivated art historian, saw "sublimity" in the desert's "lonely desolation," which previous generations had perceived only as a wasteland, and his book has a conservationist flavor which seems distinctly modern. "The deserts should never be reclaimed," he writes... |
By: Queensland Railways | |
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Tours in the South Coast District
An early booklet, designed to encourage tourism in the northern parts of New South Wales, and the southern parts of Queensland, particularly the area now in the Gold Coast.(Introduction by Timothy Ferguson) |
By: Mary Roberts Rinehart (1876-1958) | |
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Through Glacier Park
This is about a three-hundred mile trip across the Rocky Mountains on horseback with Howard Eaton. It is about fishing, and cool nights around a camp-fire, and long days on the trail. It is about a party of all sorts, from everywhere, of men and women, old and young, experienced folk and novices, who had yielded to a desire to belong to the sportsmen of the road. And it is by way of being advice also. Your true convert must always preach. (Introduction by Mary Roberts Rinehart quoted from the text.) |
By: Sir Frank Fox (1874-1960) | |
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England
What is this strange land called England; so small in size yet so powerful in influence? What makes her so unique, talented and persistent? This book attempts to answer that. It is a short, well written explanation of England as a unique country written by someone who loved it deeply and yet, as an Australian, could be a bit impartial. In the first part he explains the 'making' of England; the Britons and the Romans, the Anglo-Saxons and the Normands. But from there he attempts to give an essence or flavor, delving into the work, the play, the schools, the churches and especially the landscape which make it special... |
By: John William Norie (1772-1843) | |
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Piloting Directions for the Gulf of Finland
Norie's series of piloting and sailing directions was something of a staple in the chart-room of 19th century British (and other) merchant vessels. The description of landmarks and ports, as well as the rules and regulations provide another viewpoint to an earlier age. Please note that these piloting directions are rather completely out of date. They are given here for purposes of historical interest only, and should not be used for navigation purposes. |
By: Ki no Tsurayuki (872-945) | |
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The Tosa Diary
Ki no Tsurayuki was a Japanese waka poet of the Heian period. In 905, he was one of the poets ordered to compile the "Kokinshu - Collected Japanese Poems of Ancient and Modern Times". He is also one of the Thirty-six Poetry Immortals of Japan. The Tosa Diary, written in 935, is considered the major work of Tsurayuki. It is an account of his return to the capital Kyoto from Tosa province, where he had served as governor since 930. The journey is by boat, and Tsurayuki tells about his sea sickness and fear of pirates, his impressions of the coast, and the various offerings to placate the gods of the sea... |
By: Unknown (ca. 337-422) | |
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A Record of Buddhistic kingdoms: being an account by the Chinese monk Fa-hsien of travels in India and Ceylon (A.D. 399-414) in search of the Buddhist books of discipline |
By: Various | |
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Australian Miscellany
A collection in celebration of 2012 Year of Reading Australia. Readers chose fiction, non fiction and poetry - we only asked that the readings should have some sort of Australian hook. So they can be by an Australian author, or about Australia, or just have a prominent bit of Australianess in the plot. Failing that: even being performed by Australians will do! :D . |
By: John Leland (1503-1552) | |
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The Itinerary of John Leland in or About the Years 1535-1543, Part IX
John Leland's 'Itinerary' was the product of several journeys around England and Wales undertaken between 1538 and 1543. The manuscript is made up of Leland's notebooks, which were first published in the 18th century, and later in a ten-part, five-volume edition published by Lucy Toulmin (1906-10). Part IX of the manuscript begins in the south of England and gradually meanders its way, county by county, through central and northern England up to the borders of Scotland. Leland did not prepare the manuscript for publication and it is sometimes difficult to follow, with occasional geographically-misplaced sections, lists of headings with content yet to be added, and the odd lapse into Latin... |
By: Anonymous | |
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The Story of Ida Pfeiffer and Her Travels in Many Lands |
By: Unknown | |
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Sinks of London Laid Open A Pocket Companion for the Uninitiated |
By: Robert Goadby (1721-1778) | |
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Surprising Adventures of Bampfylde Moore Carew, King of the Beggars
The Surprising Adventures of Bampfylde Moore Carew recounts the wide-ranging exploits of a real-life rogue – a wily professional mendicant who roams 18th-century England extracting charity from merchants, clergyman, and members of the landed gentry alike, employing in his craft an ingenious variety of deceptions and disguises put on for the purpose. Often he impersonates a shipwreck-surviving seaman and uses his wide knowledge of foreign parts and personages to achieve plausibility. Or he might appear on a doorstep as a destitute woman in widow's weeds, toting borrowed babes to enhance the effect... |
By: Anonymous | |
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A Letter From a Clergyman to his Friend, with an Account of the Travels of Captain Lemuel Gulliver | |
Famous Islands and Memorable Voyages |