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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: James W. S. Marr (1902-1965) | |
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Into the Frozen South
James Marr was a Boy Scout selected to go along with Sir Ernest Shackleton aboard the Quest in 1921 for the Shackleton–Rowett Expedition to Antarctica. This book provides a description of what would be Shackleton's last exploration due to his untimely death en route. - Summary by mleigh |
By: Jan Gordon (1882-1944) | |
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The Luck of Thirteen Wanderings and Flight through Montenegro and Serbia | |
By: Jasper Danckaerts (1639-) | |
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Journal of Jasper Danckaerts, 1679-1680 |
By: Jeannie Gunn (1870-1961) | |
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We of the Never-Never
We of the Never Never is the second book written by Jeannie Gunn under the name of “Mrs Aeneas Gunn”. It is considered by many as a classic of Australian writing. The book was published as a novel but draws on the author’s own experience in settling on the Elsey Station way out in the "back blocks" of the Katherine region of the Northern Territories of Australia early in the 20th century. The primary concession to fiction was that she fictionalised the names of many of the real-life characters that featured in her life at the time, giving them names like "the Sanguine Scott", "the Fizzer", "the Quiet Stockman" and "the Dandy"... |
By: Jerome K. Jerome (1859-1927) | |
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Diary of a Pilgrimage
A possibly fictionalised account by the comic novelist Jerome K. Jerome of a trip to Germany that he undertook with a friend in order to see the famous Passion Play at Oberammergau. The journey takes in London, Dover, Ostend, Cologne, Munich, Oberau, Oberammergau and then back to London via Heidelberg. As one might expect from the author of 'Three Men in a Boat', much goes wrong along the way, including seasickness, strange food, stranger beds, misleading guidebooks, bewildering train timetables, and numerous cultural and linguistic misunderstandings. |
By: Jessie Margaret Edmondston Saxby (1842-1940) | |
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Viking Boys |
By: Joel Cook (1842-1910) | |
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England, Picturesque and Descriptive A Reminiscence of Foreign Travel |
By: Johann Jakob von Tschudi (1818-1889) | |
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Travels in Peru, on the Coast, in the Sierra, Across the Cordilleras and the Andes, into the Primeval Forests |
By: John Auldjo (-1857) | |
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Journal of a Visit to Constantinople and Some of the Greek Islands in the Spring and Summer of 1833 |
By: John Buffa (-1812) | |
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Travels through the Empire of Morocco |
By: John Carr (1772-1832) | |
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The Stranger in France or, a Tour from Devonshire to Paris Illustrated by Engravings in Aqua Tint of Sketches Taken on the Spot. |
By: John Charles Frémont (1813-1890) | |
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The Exploring Expedition to the Rocky Mountains |
By: John Dryden Kuser (1897-1964) | |
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Haiti: Its Dawn of Progress after Years in a Night of Revolution
This book is part history and part travelogue, an account of a brief visit by a wealthy, white U.S. politician during a lamentable time in Haiti’s history of its invasion and occupation by the U.S. military. Dryden offers his views of elements of Haitian culture such as education, religion and commerce, with some optimism but with the shallow understanding of a casual observer who has not been immersed in the culture enough to provide truly insightful understanding. One chapter is an account of his duck hunting expedition. This is, nonetheless, valuable in helping us understand how many understood the Haitian situation in the early twentieth century. Summary by Larry Wilson. |
By: John Finnemore (1863-1915) | |
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Peeps at Many Lands: Japan |
By: John Franklin (1786-1847) | |
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The Journey to the Polar Sea | |
Narrative of a Journey to the Shores of the Polar Sea, in the Years 1819-20-21-22, Volume 1 |
By: John Gneisenau Neihardt (1881-1973) | |
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The River and I |
By: John Hanning Speke (1827-1864) | |
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The Discovery of the Source of the Nile |
By: John Hay (1835-1905) | |
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Castilian Days |
By: John Henry Patterson (1867-1947) | |
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The Man-Eaters of Tsavo and Other East African Adventures
In 1898, during the construction of river-crossing bridge for the Uganda Railway at the Tsavo River, as many as 135 railway workers were attacked at night, dragged into the wilderness, and devoured by two male lions. The Man-Eaters of Tsavo is the autobiographical account of Royal Engineer Lt. Col. J.H. Patterson's African adventures. Among them, his hunt for the two man-eaters.This book was the basis for the 1996 film The Ghost and the Darkness. |
By: John Hughes (1790-1857) | |
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Itinerary of Provence and the Rhone Made During the Year 1819 |
By: John Kendrick Bangs (1862-1922) | |
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Mr Munchausen
The author has discovered for us in this volume the present stopping place of that famous raconteur of dear comic memory, the late Hieronymous Carl Friederich, sometime Baron Munchausen, and he transmits to us some further adventures of this traveler and veracious relator of merry tales. There are about a dozen of these tales, and, judging by Mr. Bangs' recital of them, the Baron's adventures on this mundane sphere were no more exciting than those he has encountered since taking the ferry across the Styx... |
By: John Lawson (-1712) | |
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A New Voyage to Carolina, containing the exact description and natural history of that country |
By: John Lewis Burckhardt (1784-1817) | |
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Travels in Syria and the Holy Land | |
Travels in Arabia; comprehending an account of those territories in Hedjaz which the Mohammedans regard as sacred |
By: John M. Synge (1871-1909) | |
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The Aran Islands |
By: John Mandeville (1300-1399?) | |
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The Travels of Sir John Mandeville |
By: John McLean (1799-1890) | |
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Notes of a Twenty-Five Years' Service in the Hudson's Bay Territory Volume II. | |
Notes of a Twenty-Five Years' Service in the Hudson's Bay Territory Volume I. |
By: John Muir | |
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Travels in Alaska
In 1879 John Muir went to Alaska for the first time. Its stupendous living glaciers aroused his unbounded interest, for they enabled him to verify his theories of glacial action. Again and again he returned to this continental laboratory of landscapes. The greatest of the tide-water glaciers appropriately commemorates his name. Upon this book of Alaska travels, all but finished before his unforeseen departure, John Muir expended the last months of his life. | |
Steep Trails
A collection of Muir's previously unpublished essays, released shortly after his death. "This volume will meet, in every way, the high expectations of Muir's readers. The recital of his experiences during a stormy night on the summit of Mount Shasta will take rank among the most thrilling of his records of adventure. His observations on the dead towns of Nevada, and on the Indians gathering their harvest of pine nuts, recall a phase of Western life that has left few traces in American literature... | |
Letters to a Friend, Written to Mrs. Ezra S. Carr, 1866-1879
When John Muir was a student in the University of Wisconsin he was a frequent caller at the house of Dr. Ezra S. Carr. The kindness shown him there, and especially the sympathy which Mrs. Carr, as a botanist and a lover of nature, felt in the young man's interests and aims, led to the formation of a lasting friendship. He regarded Mrs. Carr, indeed, as his "spiritual mother," and his letters to her in later years are the outpourings of a sensitive spirit to one who he felt thoroughly understood and sympathized with him... |
By: John O'Keefe | |
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As Long As You Wish |
By: John Richard Greene (1837-1883) | |
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Stray Studies from England and Italy |
By: John Ruskin | |
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The Stones of Venice, volume 1
The Stones of Venice is a three-volume treatise on Venetian art and architecture by English art historian John Ruskin, first published from 1851 to 1853. Intending to prove how the architecture in Venice exemplified the principles he discussed in his earlier work, The Seven Lamps of Architecture, Ruskin examined the city in detail, describing for example over eighty churches. He discusses architecture of Venice's Byzantine, Gothic and Renaissance periods, and provides a general history of the city as well... |
By: John T. (John Tinney) McCutcheon (1870-1949) | |
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In Africa Hunting Adventures in the Big Game Country |
By: John Taylor (1580-1653) | |
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The Pennyles Pilgrimage Or The Money-lesse Perambulation of John Taylor |
By: John Wesley Powell (1834-1902) | |
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Canyons of the Colorado, or The exploration of the Colorado River and its Canyons
John Wesley Powell was a pioneer American explorer, ethnologist, and geologist in the 19th Century. In 1869 he set out to explore the Colorado and the Grand Canyon. He gathered nine men, four boats and food for ten months and set out from Green River, Wyoming, on May 24. Passing through dangerous rapids, the group passed down the Green River to its confluence with the Colorado River (then also known as the Grand River upriver from the junction), near present-day Moab, Utah. The expedition’s route... |
By: John Woodhouse Audubon (1812-1862) | |
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Audubon's Western Journal: 1849-1850
John Woodhouse Audubon , son of the famous painter John James Audubon and an artist in his own right, joined Col. Henry Webb's California Company expedition in 1849. From New Orleans the expedition sailed to the Rio Grande; it headed west overland through northern Mexico and through Arizona to San Diego, California. Cholera and outlaws decimated the group. Many of them turned back, including the leader. Audubon assumed command of those remaining and they pushed on to California, although he was forced to abandon his paints and canvases in the desert…... |
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: Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) | |
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Gulliver's Travels
Comprised of four parts, Gulliver’s Travels documents the bizarre, yet fascinating voyages of Lemuel Gulliver as he makes his way through several uncharted destinations, experiencing the lives of the small, the giant, the scientific, and downright eccentric societies. Narrated in first person, Swift successfully portrays Gulliver’s thoughts and reactions as he faces struggles of integration throughout his travels. Beginning with the introduction of Gulliver, an educated ship’s surgeon, who after a series of unfortunate events is victim to repeated shipwrecks, desertions, and set adrift... | |
Gulliver's Travels Into Several Remote Regions of the World |
By: Joseph Ernest Morris | |
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Beautiful Europe: Belgium |
By: Joseph G. (Joseph Green) Butler (1840-1927) | |
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A Journey Through France in War Time |
By: Joseph Grinnell (1877-1939) | |
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Gold Hunting in Alaska
In 1898, naturalist, Joseph Grinnell joins a company of twenty men bound for Kotzebue Sound, Alaska, from California aboard the schooner Penelope. With the trained eye of a scientist and with a flair for prose and poetry, he documents the adventures of this group of gold hunters before they return a year and a half later. This account gives valuable insights into the Alaskan culture of that time and the hardships of those searching for the fortunes of gold. - Summary by Larry Wilson |
By: Joshua Slocum (1844-1909) | |
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Sailing Alone Around the World
A sailing memoir written by seaman and adventurer Joshua Slocum, who was the first person to sail around the world alone, documents his epic solo circumnavigation. An international best-seller, the book became a great influence and inspiration to travelers from each corner of the globe. Additionally, Slocum is an example that through determination, courage and hard work any dream can easily become a reality. Written in a modern and conversational tone, the autobiographical account begins with Slocum’s description of his hometown of Nova Scotia and its maritime history... | |
Voyage of the Liberdade |
By: Jules Verne (1828-1905) | |
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Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
An early science fiction novel written by the second most translated author, French writer Jules Verne, the classic tale depicts an incredible sea expedition on board a state-of-the-art submarine. First published in 1870 and a part of the Voyages Extraordinaires series, the novel is regarded as one of the most thrilling adventure stories and one of Verne’s greatest pieces of work. Immersed in themes of exploration, avant-garde technology, and man’s insatiable desire for knowledge and scientific progression, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea has been an influence for many writers as well as an inspiration for numerous film adaptations... | |
Five Weeks in a Balloon
First published in 1863, Five Weeks in a Balloon depicts an insightful journey undertaken by a group of intrepid explorers into the partly uncharted African continent, as they aim to explore its exotic wonders. Apart from concentrating on themes including exploration, loyalty, friendship, determination, and honor, the novel also offers an endearing set of jovial characters and vivid imagery. Furthermore, the novel is the first book in Verne’s distinguished Voyages Extraordinaires series. The adventure begins when Dr... | |
Eight Hundred Leagues on the Amazon
First published in 1881, Eight Hundred Leagues on the Amazon is an adventure novel in two parts by Jules Verne, having a basis in codes and cryptography. Unlike many of his other stories, it is not a work of science fiction. Rather, it describes a voyage down the Amazon River on a large raft, or jangada). Many aspects of the raft, scenery, and journey are described in detail. | |
Dick Sands the Boy Captain
Dick Sands, a youth of fifteen, must assume command of a ship after the disappearance of its captain. Nature’s forces combined with evil doings of men lead him and his companions to many dangerous adventures on sea and in Central Africa. | |
Celebrated Travels and Travellers, vol. 1
The famous writer of great adventure stories Jules Verne wrote also several lesser known, but good non-fiction works. "Celebrated travels and travellers" tells the story of geographical discovery in the same well written and precise manner we are used to finding in Verne’s fiction books. This book is divided into 3 volumes. This is the first volume, named the "Exploration of the World" and it covers the period in the World's history of exploration from B.C. 505 to the close of the 17th century. The second and third volumes are respectively entitled "The great navigators of the 18th century" and "The great navigators of the 19th century".Coordinated by Kristine Bekere and Kajo. | |
Dick Sand A Captain at Fifteen | |
Round the World in Eighty Days | |
From the Earth to the Moon, Version 2
Jules Verne takes aim at some amusing stereotypes of Americans in this story of a pre-rocketry attempt to shoot a cannonball to the Moon. Those Yankees don’t do anything by halves! His means is a Columbiad cannon so enormous that it must be bored 900 feet into the ground, so immense that 1200 smelting furnaces would be needed to create the iron for its casting, so stupendous that 100 tons of guncotton would be needed to loft its cannonball heavenwards. The journey must be watched from the tallest peak of the Rocky Mountains through a new telescope with a reflector measuring 16 feet in diameter and a tube reaching skyward 280 feet... |
By: Julia de Winton | |
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Yr Ynys Unyg The Lonely Island |
By: Julia M. Sloane | |
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The Smiling Hill-Top And Other California Sketches |
By: Julia Mary Cartwright (1851-1924) | |
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Pilgrims' Way from Winchester to Canterbury
"This account of the Way trodden by the pilgrims of the Middle Ages through the South of England to the shrine of St. Thomas of Canterbury originally appeared in the Art Journal for 1892, with illustrations by Mr. A. Quinton. It was published in the following year as a separate volume, and reprinted in 1895 and 1901. Now by the courtesy of Messrs. Virtue’s representatives, and in response to a continued demand, it appears again in a new and revised form, with the additional attraction of illustrations from original drawings by Mr. Hallam Murray. - Summary adapted from the Preface |
By: Julian Street (1879-1947) | |
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Ship-Bored | |
American Adventures
AMERICAN ADVENTURES, A SECOND TRIP ABROAD AT HOMEBY JULIAN STREETCHAPTER IHad my companion and I never crossed the continent together, had we never gone abroad at home, I might have curbed my impatience at the beginning of our second voyage. But from the time we returned from our first journey, after having spent some months in trying, as some one put it, to discover America, I felt the gnawings of excited appetite. The vast sweep of the country continually suggested to me some great delectable repast:... |
By: Karl Philipp Moritz (1757-1793) | |
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Travels in England in 1782 |
By: Kate Douglas Wiggin (1856-1923) | |
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A Cathedral Courtship
A romantic comedy. A pretty young American girl tours English Cathedrals, with her very blue-blooded Aunt. Then boy meets girl. Boy chases girl. Boy loses girl. Boy finds girl. Finally, girl catches boy with the help of a mad bull. |
By: Kate Sanborn (1839-1917) | |
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A Truthful Woman in Southern California |
By: Kirk Munroe (1850-1930) | |
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Under the Great Bear |
By: Lady (Mary Anne) Barker (1831-1911) | |
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Station Amusements in New Zealand |
By: Lady Lucie Duff-Gordon (1821-1869) | |
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Letters from Egypt
As a girl, Lady Duff-Gordon was noted both for her beauty and intelligence. As an author, she is most famous for this collection of letters from Egypt. Lady Duff-Gordon had tuberculosis, and went to Egypt for her health. This collection of her personal letters to her mother and her husband. By all accounts everyone loved her, and the letters are very personal in style and content. The letters are as much an introduction to her person as a record of her life on the Upper Nile. |
By: Lady Sarah Wilson (1865-1929) | |
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South African Memories
Lady Sarah Isabella Augusta Wilson was the aunt of Winston Spencer Churchill. In 1899 she became the first woman war correspondent when she was recruited to cover the Siege of Mafeking for the Daily Mail during the Boer War. She moved to Mafeking with her husband at the start of the war, where he was aide-de-camp to Colonel Robert Baden-Powell. Baden-Powell asked her to leave Mafeking for her own safety after the Boers threatened to storm the British garrison. This she duly did, and set off on a... |
By: Lafcadio Hearn (1850-1904) | |
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Kokoro: Hints and Echoes of Japanese Inner Life
In an introductory paragraph, Lafcadio Hearn declares his intention: "The papers composing this volume treat of the inner rather than of the outer life of Japan, for which reason they have been grouped under the title Kokoro (heart). Written with the above character, this word signifies also mind, in the emotional sense; spirit; courage; resolve; sentiment; affection; and inner meaning, just as we say in English, "the heart of things."" The result is a highly eclectic collection of stories, diary... |
By: Laura Dent Crane | |
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The Automobile Girls in the Berkshires The Ghost of Lost Man's Trail |
By: Laura Lee Hope | |
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The Outdoor Girls in a Motor Car Or, The Haunted Mansion of Shadow Valley | |
Six Little Bunkers at Mammy June's | |
Bunny Brown and His Sister Sue on an Auto Tour |
By: Laurence Sterne (1713-1768) | |
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A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy
After the bizarre textual antics of “Tristram Shandy”, this book would seem to require a literary health warning. Sure enough, it opens in mid-conversation upon a subject never explained; meanders after a fashion through a hundred pages, then fizzles out in mid-sentence – so, a plotless novel lacking a beginning, a middle or an end. Let us say: an exercise in the infinitely comic. “There is not a secret so aiding to the progress of sociality, as to get master of this short hand, and to be quick in rendering the several turns of looks and limbs with all their inflections and delineations, into plain words... |
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: 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: Lilian Whiting (1847-1942) | |
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Italy, the Magic Land |
By: Lord Dufferin (1826-1902) | |
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Letters from High Latitudes |
By: Louisa May Alcott (1832-1888) | |
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Shawl-Straps: A Second Series of Aunt Jo's Scrap-Bag |
By: Louisa Stuart Costello (1799-1870) | |
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Béarn and the Pyrenees A Legendary Tour to the Country of Henri Quatre |
By: Lucie Duff Gordon (1821-1869) | |
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Letters from the Cape |
By: Lucien Biart (1829-1897) | |
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Adventures of a Young Naturalist |
By: Ludwig Leichhardt (1813-1848) | |
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Journal of an Overland Expedition in Australia : from Moreton Bay to Port Essington, a distance of upwards of 3000 miles, during the years 1844-1845 |
By: M. E. (Mary Edith) Durham (1863-1944) | |
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Twenty Years Of Balkan Tangle |
By: M. Pearson Thomson | |
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Denmark |
By: Mack Reynolds (1917-1983) | |
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Gun for Hire |