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By: Charles Norris Williamson (1859-1920) | |
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Set in Silver |
By: Charles Warren Stoddard (1843-1909) | |
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Over the Rocky Mountains to Alaska | |
South-Sea Idyls
The American Charles Warren Stoddard wrote quite popular travel books, especially those about Polynesia. South-Sea Idyls was his most popular book. A series of letters to a friend, "They are," wrote William Dean Howells, "the lightest, sweetest, wildest, freshest things that were ever written about the life of that summer ocean." Stoddard also wrote The Lepers Of Molokai , a book that brought Father Damien and his charges to public notice. - Summary by David Wales | |
By: Charles Whibley (1859-1930) | |
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American Sketches |
By: Charlotte M. Yonge (1823-1901) | |
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Little Lucy's Wonderful Globe
Travel with Little Lucy around the globe and learn a little geography and small bits about other cultures. |
By: Chelsea Curtis Fraser (1876-) | |
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Around the World in Ten Days |
By: Clara Rayleigh (-1900) | |
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The British Association's Visit to Montreal, 1884 : letters |
By: Clifford Simak (1904-1988) | |
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Project Mastodon
Clifford Simak deals with the implications of time travel in his own unique way in this story. What if a group of guys did it on their own, without any help from government or industry? On a shoestring,so to speak? Would anyone believe them? What would you do if you could go back 150,000 years to a time when mastodons and saber toothed tigers roamed North America? And what happens when they run out of money? All these questions are explored in the usual humorous, wry Simak way in this story. |
By: D. W. (David W.) Bartlett (1828-1912) | |
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Paris: With Pen and Pencil Its People and Literature, Its Life and Business |
By: D. W. (David W.) Belisle | |
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The American Family Robinson or, The Adventures of a Family lost in the Great Desert of the West |
By: Dame Shirley (d.1906) | |
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The Shirley Letters from California Mines in 1851-52
Louise Amelia Knapp Smith Clappe moved to California from Massachusetts during the Gold Rush of the mid-1800’s. During her travels, Louise was offered the opportunity to write for The Herald about her travel adventures. It was at this point that Louise chose the name “Shirley” as her pen name. Dame Shirley wrote a series of 23 letters to her sister Mary Jane (also known as Molly) in Massachusetts in 1851 and 1852. The “Shirley Letters”, as the collected whole later became known, gave true accounts of life in two gold mining camps on the Feather River in the 1850s... |
By: Daniel Defoe | |
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The Further Adventures of Robinson Crusoe
“THE FARTHER ADVENTURES OF ROBINSON CRUSOE; Being the Second and Last Part OF HIS LIFE, And of the Strange Surprizing Accounts of his Travels Round three Parts of the Globe.” After the death of his wife, Robinson Crusoe is overcome by the old wanderlust, and sets out with his faithful companion Friday to see his island once again. Thus begins a journey which will last ten years and nine months, in which Crusoe travels over the world, along the way facing dangers and discoveries in Madagascar, China, and Siberia. | |
Tour through Eastern Counties of England, 1722 | |
From London to Land's End and Two Letters from the "Journey through England by a Gentleman" |
By: Daniel Knower | |
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The Adventures of a Forty-niner An Historic Description of California, with Events and Ideas of San Francisco and Its People in Those Early Days |
By: David Starr Jordan (1851-1931) | |
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California and the Californians |
By: David Wynford Carnegie (1871-1900) | |
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Spinifex and Sand |
By: Dee Day | |
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Getting to know Spain |
By: Dillon Wallace (1863-1939) | |
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The Lure of the Labrador Wild
The Lure Of The Labrador Wild is a account of a expedition by Leonidas Hubbard, an adventurer and journalist to canoe the system Naskaupi River - Lake Michikamau in Labrador and George River in Quebec. His companions on this journey were his friend, New York lawyer Dillon Wallace and an Indian guide from Missannabie, George Elson. From the start, the expedition was beset with mistakes and problems. Instead of ascending the Naskaupi River, by mistake they followed the shallow Susan Brook. After hard long portaging and almost reaching Lake Michikamau, with food supplies running out, on September 15 at Windbound lake, they decided to turn back... |
By: Donald Maxwell (1877-1936) | |
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A Dweller in Mesopotamia Being the Adventures of an Official Artist in the Garden of Eden |
By: Dorothy Menpes | |
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Japan A Record in Colour |
By: Dorothy Richardson (1873-1957) | |
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Pointed Roofs
Miriam Henderson is one of what novelist Dolf Wyllarde (in her great work, The Pathway of the Pioneer) termed "nous autres," i.e., young gentlewomen who must venture forth and earn their living after their fathers have been financially ruined. Also, she has read Villette; she thus applies for and is offered a job teaching conversational English at a girls' school, albeit in Germany rather than France. Pointed Roofs describes her year abroad, as she endeavors to make her way in the hotbed of seething female personalities that populate the school, overseen by her employer, the formidable Fraulein... |
By: Dorothy Wordsworth (1771-1855) | |
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Recollections of a Tour Made in Scotland A.D. 1803 |
By: Douglas Grant (aka Isabel Ostrander) (1883-1924) | |
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Anything once
An unlikely pair of wanderers they were; the orphan girl Lou and her travelling partner Jim Botts. Jim appeared in need of following some apparent 'rules' during the journey, while Lou seemed in need of better clothing, and perhaps some refinement. But who was most benefitting whom on the week-long journey from rural village to big city? And which of the two was willing to try anything once? (Introduction by Roger Melin) |
By: E. L. (Edward Lloyd) Lomax (1852-1916) | |
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Oregon, Washington and Alaska; Sights and Scenes for the Tourist |
By: E. W. (Edward William) Watkin (1819-1901) | |
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Canada and the States |
By: Edmond Hamilton (1904-1977) | |
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The Man Who Saw the Future |
By: Edmondo De Amicis (1846-1908) | |
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Holland, v. 1 (of 2) |
By: Edna Ferber (1885-1968) | |
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Emma McChesney and Company
This is the final volume in the trilogy following the smart, stylish, divorced and independent businesswoman Emma McChesney in her career from stenographer, then drummer (traveling salesman) to owner of her own company. (The first was Roast Beef, Medium and the second Personality Plus). Edna Ferber first gained success with these stories and later went on to write Show Boat, Giant and other well known books. First published in 1915, Emma's son, Jock, has moved to Chicago with his new wife. Emma decides to sell in South America and proves she has not lost her magic touch... |
By: Edward Augustus Freeman (1823-1892) | |
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Sketches of Travel in Normandy and Maine |
By: Edward Bellamy (1850-1898) | |
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Looking Backward: 2000-1887
Looking Backward: 2000-1887 is a utopian novel by Edward Bellamy, first published in 1888. It was the third largest bestseller of its time, after Uncle Tom’s Cabin and Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ.The book tells the story of Julian West, a young American who, towards the end of the 19th century, falls into a deep, hypnosis-induced sleep and wakes up more than a century later. He finds himself in the same location (Boston, Massachusetts) but in a totally changed world: It is the year 2000 and, while he was sleeping, the U... | |
Looking Backward 2000-1887 |
By: Edward Feild (1801-1876) | |
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Extracts from a Journal of a Voyage of Visitation in the "Hawk," 1859 |
By: Edward Frederick Knight (1852-1925) | |
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Cruise of the Alerte - In Search of Treasure
The book describes a voyage undertaken in 1889 by an English barrister Edward Frederick Knight to the South Seas. This delightful story takes the reader on a voyage to the forbidding desert island of Trindade, where it is rumored that immense treasure lies buried. Though the heroes of this treasure-hunt do not have to contend with malicious people, they have their share of adventures. Almost inaccessible desert island, changing weather, hideous land crabs and heavy digging in the mud are enough challenges for the brave adventurers. |
By: Edward Hayes (fl. 1580.) | |
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Sir Humphrey Gilbert's Voyage to Newfoundland |
By: Edward Lawton Moss (1843-1880) | |
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Shores of the Polar Sea: A Narrative of the Arctic Expedition of 1875-6
"THE ARCTIC EXPEDITION of 1875 left England on 29th May, crossed the Atlantic to Davis Straits in a succession of storms, and entered the Arctic regions on 4th July. It sailed with orders to 'attain the highest northern latitude, and, if possible, reach the Pole.'" This is the story of the crew of the HMS Alert, on its voyage of exploration up the Baffin Sea and toward northern Greenland. volunteers wish to thank the volunteers of Distributed Proofreaders for their work over the last 20 years to convert public domain books into e-books. "Shores of the Polar Sea" was DP's 35,000th title. Congratulations and Happy 20th Anniversary Distributed Proofreaders! . |
By: Edward Money | |
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The Truth About America |
By: Edward Stanley (1779-1849) | |
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Before and after Waterloo Letters from Edward Stanley, sometime Bishop of Norwich (1802; 1814; 1816) |
By: Edward V. Lucas (1868-1938) | |
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Highways and Byways in Sussex
A very personal and opinionated wander through the Sussex of around 1900, illustrated with anecdotes, literary and poetic quotations, gravestone epitaphs and a gentle sense of humour. The author colours the countryside with his nostalgia for times past and regret for the encroaching future, his resentment of churches with locked doors, and his love of deer parks, ruined castles and the silent hills.(I must add my apologies for my attempts at the Sussex dialect in the chapter on that subject.)[This book is of Reading Grade of 9... | |
A Wanderer in Venice | |
A Wanderer in Holland | |
A Wanderer in Florence | |
Roving East and Roving West |
By: Edwin George Rundle (1838-) | |
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A Soldier's Life Being the Personal Reminiscences of Edwin G. Rundle |
By: Egerton Ryerson Young (1840-1909) | |
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By Canoe and Dog-Train | |
Three Boys in the Wild North Land | |
Winter Adventures of Three Boys |
By: Eleanor Hallowell Abbott (1872-1958) | |
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The Indiscreet Letter
Three fellow travelers on a train enter into a discussion concerning what they would call an ‘indiscreet letter.’ The discussion albeit short, produces some rather interesting revelations during the journey and at journey’s end. |
By: Elise Whitlock Rose | |
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Cathedrals and Cloisters of the South of France, Volume 1 |
By: Eliza B. (Eliza Brown) Chase | |
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Over the Border: Acadia, the Home of "Evangeline" |
By: Eliza Lee Cabot Follen (1787-1860) | |
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Travellers' Stories |
By: Elizabeth Davis Bancroft (1803-1886) | |
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Letters from England, 1846-1849
Elizabeth Bancroft went to England with her husband, historian George Bancroft, for three of the most dynamicy years in European hstory. As Ambassador to England from the United States, George moved in the highest circles. In his wife’s letters to their sons, her uncle, her brother, and Mrs. Polk (the President’s wife), we see glimpses not only of early Victorian English life, but also of Queen Victoria herself! Mrs. Bancroft speaks of dinners with Benjamin Disraeli, visits to Wordsworth, weekends in the country with Louis Napolean and Sir Robert Peel with such matter of fact aplomb that one cannot help being impressed. |
By: Elizabeth Kimball Kendall | |
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A Wayfarer in China Impressions of a trip across West China and Mongolia |
By: Elizabeth Robins Pennell (1855-1936) | |
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Nights Rome, Venice, in the Aesthetic Eighties; London, Paris, in the Fighting Nineties |
By: Elizabeth Stuart Phelps (1844-1911) | |
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Gypsy's Cousin Joy |
By: Elizabeth von Arnim (1866-1941) | |
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Elizabeth and her German Garden
Elizabeth and Her German Garden is a novel by Elizabeth von Arnim, first published in 1898; it was very popular and frequently reprinted during the early years of the 20th century. The story is a year's diary written by the protagonist Elizabeth about her experiences learning gardening and interacting with her friends. It includes commentary on the beauty of nature and on society, but is primarily humorous due to Elizabeth's frequent mistakes and her idiosyncratic outlook on life. She looked down upon the frivolous fashions of her time writing "I believe all needlework and dressmaking is of the devil, designed to keep women from study... |
By: Elizabeth W. Grierson (1869-1943) | |
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Tales Of English Minsters: Canterbury Cathedral Kent and Saint Paul's London
These simple stories of two of England’s greatest cathedrals were originally written for youth but adults will also enjoy them. St. Paul’s Cathedral, London, and Canterbury Cathedral in Kent County are central to the story of England, especially church history though not exclusively so. Here are stories of great spiritual leaders, saints, sinners, politicians, kings, soldiers, murders, pilgrimages, common folks, peoples’ spiritualities, spiritual life, civil life. - Summary by david wales |
By: Ellen Clacy | |
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A Lady's Visit to the Gold Diggings of Australia in 1852-53,
“If you have visions of a middle-aged parasol-bearing lady smiling sweetly from her carriage as she tours Bendigo think again. In 1852, 20 year old clergyman’s daughter Ellen and her brother boarded ship for Melbourne then set off to walk to Bendigo. Dressed in her blue serge skirt which doubled as nightwear, she camped under a tent made of blankets, had mutton, damper and tea most meals and on arrival lent her hand to gold washing. And seemed to enjoy it !And amongst other things she tells of colonial life , transportation, emigration and other gold-fields.But you will need to listen to hear more about bush-rangers and orphans as well as what she did with her parasol.” |
By: Ellen Mary Hayes Peck | |
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Travels in the Far East |
By: Elmer Ulysses Hoenshel (1864-) | |
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My Three Days in Gilead |
By: Emily Bronson Conger | |
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An Ohio Woman in the Philippines Giving personal experiences and descriptions including incidents of Honolulu, ports in Japan and China |
By: Emily Richings | |
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Through the Malay Archipelago |
By: Enos A. Mills (1870-1922) | |
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Wild Life on the Rockies
“This book contains the record of a few of the many happy days and novel experiences which I have had in the wilds. For more than twenty years it has been my good fortune to live most of the time with nature, on the mountains of the West. I have made scores of long exploring rambles over the mountains in every season of the year, a nature-lover charmed with the birds and the trees. On my later excursions I have gone alone and without firearms. During three succeeding winters, in which I was a Government Experiment Officer and called the “State Snow Observer,” I scaled many of the higher peaks of the Rockies and made many studies on the upper slopes of these mountains.” |
By: Eric Parker (1870-1955) | |
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Highways and Byways in Surrey |
By: Ernest Ingersoll (1852-1946) | |
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Book of the Ocean
The Book of the Ocean is precisely what its title promises. It contains a rather broad overview of all topics connected to the ocean, such as its geography and the history of the exploration of the oceans. Besides the oceans themselves, the book contains several chapters on the different aspects of seafaring: building ships and seafaring, war ships, merchant ships and voyages, piracy, and yachting. - Summary by Carolin |
By: Ernest Scott (1867-1939) | |
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Laperouse |
By: Ernest Shackleton | |
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South! The Story of Shackleton's Last Expedition 1914-1917
The expedition was given the grand title of The Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition. Due to be launched in 1914, two ships were to be employed. The first, the lead vessel, fittingly named the Endurance was to transport the team to the Weddell Sea from where the great explorer Ernest Shackleton and five others would cross the icy wastes of Antarctica on foot. The second ship, the Aurora was to approach the continent from the other side and put down supplies at various points to help the explorers... |
By: Ernest Thompson Seton (1860-1946) | |
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The Arctic Prairies : a Canoe-Journey of 2,000 Miles in Search of the Caribou; Being the Account of a Voyage to the Region North of Aylemer Lake |
By: Erskine Childers (1870-1922) | |
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The Riddle of the Sands
Containing many realistic details based on Childers’ own sailing trips along the German North Sea coast, the book is the retelling of a yachting expedition in the early 20th century combined with an adventurous spy story. It was one of the early invasion novels which predicted war with Germany and called for British preparedness. The plot involves the uncovering of secret German preparations for an invasion of the United Kingdom. It is often called the first modern spy novel, although others are as well, it was certainly very influential in the genre and for its time... |
By: Ethel Gwendoline Vincent (1861-1952) | |
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Forty Thousand Miles Over Land and Water
Subtitled "The Journal of a Tour through the British Empire and America," this book is a record of the author's travels with her husband through the British Empire and America in the late 1800's. In the words of the author, "It is but a simple Journal of what we saw and did." Their travels took them across the Atlantic to the U.S. and Canada, then across the Pacific to New Zealand, Australia, then on to the Dutch East Indies, the Straits settlements, the Indian subcontinent and Egypt - Summary by knotyouraveragejo |
By: Evelyn Raymond (1843-1910) | |
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Dorothy's Travels |
By: Ezra Meeker (1830-1928) | |
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Ox-Team Days on the Oregon Trail
Ezra Meeker…was an early pioneer who traveled the Oregon Trail by ox cart as a young man. Beginning in his 70s, he worked tirelessly to memorialize the trail, repeatedly retracing the trip of his youth. This book is a memoir of those days. |
By: F. Hamilton Jackson (1848-1923) | |
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The Shores of the Adriatic The Austrian Side, The Küstenlande, Istria, and Dalmatia |
By: F. Marion Crawford (1854-1909) | |
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Ave Roma Immortalis, Vol. 1 Studies from the Chronicles of Rome | |
Ave Roma Immortalis, Vol. 2 Studies from the Chronicles of Rome |
By: Fannie E. (Fannie Ellsworth) Newberry (1848-1942) | |
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All Aboard A Story for Girls |
By: Felix Speiser (1880-1949) | |
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Two Years with the Natives in the Western Pacific |
By: Florence Kimball Russel | |
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A Woman's Journey through the Philippines On a Cable Ship that Linked Together the Strange Lands Seen En Route |
By: Frances Calderón de la Barca (1804-1882) | |
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Life in Mexico
FRANCES CALDERON DE LA BARCA, born in Edinburgh, 1804, the daughter of William Inglis. After her father’s death she settled in America, where she married the Spanish diplomat, Don Angel Calderon de la Barca. She accompanied him on his various appointments to Mexico, Washington, and finally to Madrid, where she was created Marquesa de Calderon de la Barca by Alfonso XII and died in 1882. The present work is the result of observations made during a two years’ residence in Mexico, by a lady, whose position there made her intimately acquainted with its society, and opened to her the best sources of information in regard to whatever could interest an enlightened foreigner... |
By: Frances M. A. Roe | |
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Army Letters from an Officer's Wife, 1871-1888
"There appeared from the bushes in front of me, and right in the path, two immense gray wolves . . . Rollo saw them and stopped instantly, giving deep sighs, preparing to snort, I knew . . . To give myself courage, I talked to the horse, slowly turning him around . . . when out of the bushes in front of us, there came a third wolf! The situation was not pleasant and without stopping to think, I said ‘Rollo, we must run him down - now do your best’ and taking a firm hold of the bridle, and bracing myself in the saddle, I struck the horse with my whip and gave an awful scream... |
By: Frances Trollope (1779-1863) | |
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Domestic Manners of the Americans
Next to de Alexis de Tocquville's almost contemporary Democracy in America, Frances Trollope's work may be the most famous (or at least notorious) dissection of manners and morals of the United States. The work was a sensation on both sides of the Atlantic, and particularly in America, where Trollope was reviled as representing the worst of old world prejudices the new republic (though the criticism did nothing to hurt sales).Accompanied by a son and two daughters, Trollope lived in the United States... |
By: Francis Edward Younghusband (1863-1942) | |
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The Heart of Nature or, The Quest for Natural Beauty |
By: Francis Hamilton (1762-1829) | |
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An Account of The Kingdom of Nepal And of the Territories Annexed to this Dominion by the House of Gorkha |
By: Francis Hervé | |
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How to Enjoy Paris in 1842 Intended to Serve as a Companion and Monitor, Containing Historical, Political, Commercial, Artistical, Theatrical And Statistical Information |
By: Francis Hopkinson Smith (1838-1915) | |
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The Parthenon By Way Of Papendrecht | |
Forty Minutes Late 1909 |
By: Francis Parkman, Jr. | |
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The Oregon Trail
The book is a breezy, first-person account of a 2 month summer tour of the U.S. states of Nebraska, Wyoming, Colorado, and Kansas when Parkman was 23. Proofed and produced by Karen Merline. |
By: Francis Pretty | |
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Sir Francis Drake's Famous Voyage Round the World |
By: Frank Belknap Long (1903-1994) | |
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The Man from Time |