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By: Verney Lovett Cameron (1844-1894) | |
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To The Gold Coast for Gold, Vol. II A Personal Narrative |
By: Vernon Lee (1856-1935) | |
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The Spirit of Rome |
By: Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) | |
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The Voyage Out
The Voyage Out is the first novel by Virginia Woolf, published in 1915 by Duckworth; and published in the U.S. in 1920 by Doran. One of Woolf's wittiest social satires.Rachel Vinrace embarks for South America on her father's ship and is launched on a course of self-discovery in a kind of modern mythical voyage. The mismatched jumble of passengers provide Woolf with an opportunity to satirize Edwardian life. The novel introduces Clarissa Dalloway, the central character of Woolf's later novel, Mrs... | |
By: W. (William) Pridden (1810-) | |
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Australia, its history and present condition containing an account both of the bush and of the colonies, with their respective inhabitants |
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: W. Basil Worsfold (1858-1939) | |
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A Visit to Java With an Account of the Founding of Singapore |
By: W. Blanchard Jerrold (1826-1884) | |
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The Cockaynes in Paris Or 'Gone abroad' |
By: W. Cope Devereux | |
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Fair Italy, the Riviera and Monte Carlo Comprising a Tour Through North and South Italy and Sicily with a Short Account of Malta |
By: W. Douglas (Wilfrid Douglas) Newton (1884-1951) | |
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Westward with the Prince of Wales |
By: W. G. (William Gordon) Burn Murdoch (1862-1939) | |
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From Edinburgh to India & Burmah |
By: W. G. Windham | |
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Notes in North Africa Being a Guide to the Sportsman and Tourist in Algeria and Tunisia |
By: W. Hastings Macaulay | |
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Kathay: A Cruise in the China Seas |
By: W. Somerset Maugham (1874-1965) | |
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On a Chinese Screen
This is a non-fiction collection of Maugham's observations of life in Asia in the early 20th Century. | |
The Land of The Blessed Virgin; Sketches and Impressions in Andalusia |
By: W. W. Jacobs (1863-1943) | |
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Dialstone Lane |
By: Walt Whitman | |
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Specimen Days
Specimen Days is essentially the great American poet Walt Whitman’s scrap book. It documents most of his life’s adventures, espeically his experience serving as a nurse during the Civil War and travelling around America. |
By: Walter Besant (1836-1901) | |
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Captain Cook
James Cook , British explorer, navigator, cartographer, and captain in the Royal Navy was the son of a farm laborer. Apprenticed to a grocer, he ran away to sea. He saw hard service in the Baltic as a merchant seaman, while applying himself to the study of mathematics, navigation, and astronomy. In 1755 he volunteered for the Royal Navy, working his way up to captain. This little biography by Walter Besant, chronicles Cook's three voyages of discovery and his violent death in Hawaii. Cook replaced vague mythology with accurate observations of people and places, animals and plants... |
By: Walter Dwight Wilcox (1869-1949) | |
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Camping in the Canadian Rockies
An Account of Camp Life in the Wilder Parts of the Canadian Rocky Mountains, Together with a Description of the Region About Banff, Lake Louise and Glacier, and a Sketch of the Early Explorations. |
By: Walter Goodman (1838-1912) | |
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The Pearl of the Antilles, or An Artist in Cuba |
By: Walter Rye (1843-1929) | |
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Month on the Norfolk Broads
Back in the late 1880s, Walter Rye and a number of friends accompanied by an American couple , took a holiday on the Norfolk Broads and enjoyed a leisurely tour around the waterways of this unique part of Eastern England.This book documents some of the highlights of their trip on board the wherry Zöe and the hybrid wherry/cutter Lotus, as they sailed and explored many places of interest of the region. Although born in London, Walter Rye's family came from Norfolk, a county that he moved back to early in his life... |
By: Washington Irving (1783-1859) | |
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The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent.
Apart from "Rip Van Winkle" and "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" - the pieces which made both Irving and The Sketch Book famous - other tales include "Roscoe", "The Broken Heart", "The Art of Book-making", "A Royal Poet", "The Spectre Bridegroom", "Westminster Abbey", "Little Britain", and "John Bull". His stories were highly influenced by German folktales, with "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" being inspired by a folktale recorded by Karl Musaus. Stories range from the maudlin (such as "The Wife" and... | |
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: Watkin Tench (1758-1833) | |
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A Narrative of the Expedition to Botany-Bay
Watkin Tench was an officer of the British Marines in the First Fleet to settle NSW. This is an interesting and entertaining account of his experiences during that time (Introduction by Tabithat) | |
A Complete Account of the Settlement at Port Jackson |
By: Wilkie Collins (1824-1889) | |
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Rambles Beyond Railways; or, Notes in Cornwall taken A-foot |
By: William Beebe (1877-1962) | |
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Our Search for a Wilderness, An Account of Two Ornithological Expeditions to Venezuela and British Guiana
In 1908-1909, Mary Blair Beebe and her husband, C. William Beebe made two private expeditions to Venezuela and British Guiana, exploring and collecting live birds for the New York Zoological Park. They then collaborated on a book about their "search for a wilderness," with Mary Blair doing the bulk of the writing. The Beebe's supplemented tropical birding with visits to gold mines in British Guiana and a lake of pitch, which was being mined in the middle of the Venezuelan jungle. Mary Blair's take on things is evident... |
By: William A. Alcott (1798-1859) | |
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Three Days On The Ohio River
This 1854 narration of a trip upon the Ohio River in a steamboat from Cincinnati to Pittsburg gives a picture of travel in a different time and almost a different United States. The author was well-known in his time and wrote prolifically. - Summary by david wales |
By: William A. Ross | |
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A Yacht Voyage to Norway, Denmark, and Sweden 2nd edition |
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: William C. Scully (1855-1943) | |
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Reminiscences of a South African Pioneer |
By: William Caruthers | |
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Loafing Along Death Valley Trails; A Personal Narrative Of People And Places
William Caruthers was a retired newspaperman who spent 25 years listening to stories told by the inhabitants of Death Valley. This 1951 book collects those stories; the printed version has many interesting pictures. ''Of the actors who made the history of the period, few remain. It was the writer’s good fortune that many of these men were his friends. It is the romance, the comedy, the often stark tragedy these men left along the trail which you will find in the pages that follow.'' |
By: William Clark (1770-1838) | |
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The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 |
By: William Dean Howells | |
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A Little Swiss Sojurn
A charming brief account of a two months' autumnal stay on the shores of the Lake of Geneva. Howells, who was there with his family traveling from England to Italy, has a sharp eye not only for scenery and architecture, but for people and customs, both Swiss and foreign. | |
Roman Holidays, and Others | |
Familiar Spanish Travels | |
Roundabout to Boston (from Literary Friends and Acquaintance) | |
Their Wedding Journey | |
Confessions of a Summer Colonist (from Literature and Life) | |
Last Days in a Dutch Hotel (from Literature and Life) |
By: William Delisle Hay | |
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Brighter Britain! (Volume 1 of 2) or Settler and Maori in Northern New Zealand |
By: William Duthie | |
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A Tramp's Wallet stored by an English goldsmith during his wanderings in Germany and France |
By: William Francis Butler (1838-1910) | |
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Wild North Land, The Story of a Winter Journey with Dogs across Northern North America
This book was published in 1910. Not only do Mad Dogs and Englishmen go out in the noonday sun, but it seems that sometimes they venture into the frozen north as well, in winter, on foot, and alone. The author summarizes his "long tramp" across the Canadian wilderness thus: "I started in the autumn of 1872 from the Red River of the North, and, reaching Lake Athabasca, completed half my journey by the first week of March in the following year. From Athabasca I followed the many-winding channel... |
By: William H. Hudson (1841-1922) | |
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Far Away and Long Ago
William Henry Hudson (August 1841 – 1922) was an author, naturalist and ornithologist. Hudson was born of U.S. parents living in the Quilmes Partido in Buenos Aires Province, Argentina, where he spent his youth studying the local flora and fauna and observing both natural and human dramas on what was then a lawless frontier. ‘Far Away and Long Ago’ is a classic memoir of a boy, fascinated by nature, on the Pampas in the 19th century. | |
Afoot in England | |
Shepherd's Life; Impressions Of The South Wiltshire Downs
Hudson wrote this classic work in 1910; it is admiringly mentioned by many other writers. It focuses on the memories of a head shepherd, Caleb Bawcombe, so it is concerned with the period of mid to late nineteenth century rural Wiltshire, a county in England. This pleasant engaging book contains rural wisdom, natural history, farming practices, human characters, and more | |
Idle Days in Patagonia
Hudson traveled to Patagonia to study the birds, but shortly upon arrival accidentally shot himself in the knee, requiring a lengthy period of idleness to recover, hence the title of the book. It's not just a work of ornithology, but a personal memoir of the people and natural history of Patagonia. |
By: William Henry Davies (1871-1940) | |
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Autobiography of a Super-Tramp
The Autobiography of a Super-Tramp is an autobiography published in 1908 by the Welsh poet and writer W. H. Davies (1871–1940). A large part of the book's subject matter describes the way of life of the tramp in the United Kingdom, Canada and the United States in the final decade of the 19th century. George Bernard Shaw had become interested in Davies, a literary unknown at the time, and had agreed to write a preface for the book, largely through the concerted efforts of his wife Charlotte. Shaw was also instrumental in keeping the unusual title of the book, of which Davies himself was unsure, and which later proved to be controversial with some reviewers... |
By: William Henry Harrison Murray (1840-1904) | |
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Murray's Adirondack Tales
Two delightful tales surrounding the adventures of John Norton, the Trapper. He gives us a good glimpse into life in the deep woods, and how he deals with those who would disturb him or others with their, "diviltry." John Norton gives us all a great example of hospitality, bravery, forgiveness, and justice as only he can. |
By: William Henry Hurlbert (1827-1895) | |
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France and the Republic A Record of Things Seen and Learned in the French Provinces During the 'Centennial' Year 1889 |
By: William Henry Knight | |
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Diary of a Pedestrian in Cashmere and Thibet |
By: William Hutchinson (1732-1814) | |
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Excursion to the Lakes in Westmoreland and Cumberland, August 1773
In the summer of 1773, lawyer and antiquarian William Hutchinson set out from his home in County Durham on a tour of the English Lake District. Accompanied by his brother, George Allan, he travelled by horseback from Bowes to Penrith and Keswick, down through Grasmere and Ambleside to Kendal, and back via Kirkby Stephen to County Durham. When he returned home he wrote what may be the first guidebook to the Lakes. Written in a pre-Romantic era when English writers were just beginning to discover the delights of the scenic view, Hutchinson's account vividly describes a district that would soon be the haunt of literary giants such as Wordsworth, Southey, Matthew Arnold and Harriett Martineau... |
By: William John Locke (1863-1930) | |
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Wonderful Year
Martin Overshaw and Corinna Hastings are leading dull and unproductive lives in Paris, having fled humdrum England. They fall in with Fortinbras, who calls himself a Marchand de Bonheur. He predicts a bright future for them and suggests they set out on a journey through France together. The book follows their adventure which turns out to be far more complicated than it might at first seem. They meet a variety of characters on the way and the looming threat of the First World War overshadows the second half of the book, which nonetheless ends happily for all concerned. |
By: William L. Stidger (1885-1949) | |
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Flash-lights from the Seven Seas |
By: William Makepeace Thackeray (1811-1863) | |
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The Paris Sketch Book of Mr. M. A. Titmarsh | |
From Cornhill to Grand Cairo | |
Little Travels and Roadside Sketches |
By: William Sleeman (1788-1856) | |
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Rambles and Recollections of an Indian Official | |
A Journey through the Kingdom of Oude, Volumes I & II |
By: William W. Collins (1862-1951) | |
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Cathedral Cities of England 60 reproductions from original water-colours | |
Cathedral Cities of Spain 60 Reproductions from Original Water Colours |
By: William Walton (1843-1915) | |
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Paris from the Earliest Period to the Present Day; Volume 1 |
By: William Washburn Nutting (1884-1924) | |
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Track of the "Typhoon"
In 1920, William Nutting, editor of Motor Boat Magazine and an experienced sailor, commissioned his friend, legendary naval architect William Atkin, to design a boat for an Atlantic crossing. The nominal goal of the voyage was to compete in the yacht races off Cowes, England, but Nutting and Atkin also wanted to prove that one could cross a large ocean in what was then considered a very small vessel. The result was "Typhoon," a 45-foot ketch in which Nutting and a few friends completed a three-week crossing of the North Atlantic, followed by some racing and cruising in Europe, and a return to New York via the southern route... |
By: Winston Churchill (1871-1947) | |
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A Traveller in War-Time
This is a collection of a series of journalistic articles written during his travels throughout WWI era Europe that Churchill — the American author, not the famed British statesman — published in 1917; the book version came out in 1918. The writing is sharp, straightforward, and rarely sentimental, with loads of local color and occasional humor. |
By: Xenophon | |
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Xenophon's Anabasis
Xenophon the Athenian was born 431 B.C. He was a pupil of Socrates. He marched with the Spartans, and was exiled from Athens. Sparta gave him land and property in Scillus, where he lived for many years before having to move once more, to settle in Corinth. He died in 354 B.C. “Anabasis” is a Greek work which meane “journey from the coast to the center of a country.” This is Xenophon’s account of his march to Persia with a troop of Greek mercenaries to aid Cyrus, who enlisted Greek help to try and take the throne from his brother Artaxerxes, and the ensuing return of the Greeks, in which Xenophon played a leading role... |
By: Yone Noguchi (1875-1947) | |
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Kamakura
'Kamakura is nothing if she has no history, writes Japanese novelist, poet, and essayist Yone Noguchi. At the turn of the 20th century, Kamakura was, as it is today, a commercialized coastal resort, a short train journey away from Tokyo. But Kamakura was once the most populous settlement in Japan and, in the middle ages, the seat of several major Buddhist sects. In this short book of meditative essays and poetry, Noguchi sets out to recover Kamakura's rich history in visits to its most important temples and shrines. The final essay is written by Noguchi's contemporary and friend, the American Japanophile, Lafcadio Hearn. |
By: Zachariah Atwell Mudge (1813-1888) | |
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North-Pole Voyages
For more than three hundred years an intense desire has been felt by explorers to discover and reveal to the world the secrets of the immediate regions of the North Pole. Nor has this desire been confined to mere adventurers. This volume sketches the latest American efforts , second to no others in heroism and success, and abounding in instructive and intensely interesting adventures both grave and gay. - Summary from the preface |