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By: Pierce Egan (1772-1849) | |
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Real Life In London, Volumes I. and II. Or, The Rambles And Adventures Of Bob Tallyho, Esq., And His Cousin, The Hon. Tom Dashall, Through The Metropolis |
By: Edward Singleton Holden (1846-1914) | |
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Sir William Herschel: His Life and Works |
By: Francis Augustus MacNutt (1863-1927) | |
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Bartholomew de Las Casas; his life, apostolate, and writings |
By: Friedrich Heinrich Karl Freiherr de La Motte-Fouqué (1777-1843) | |
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The Two Captains |
By: Gertrude Atherton (1857-1948) | |
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Rezanov
This novel by the prolific Californian author Gertrude Horn Atherton is based on the real life story of Nikolai Rezanov, a man who, in 1806, pushed for the Russian colonization of Alaska and California. "Not twenty pages have you turned before you know this Rezanov, privy councilor, grand chamberlain, plenipotentiary of the Russo-American company, imperial inspector of the extreme eastern and northwestern dominions of his imperial majesty Alexander the First, emperor of Russia—all this and more, a man... |
By: George B. Griffenhagen | |
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Drug Supplies in the American Revolution |
By: William Still (1821-1902) | |
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Underground Railroad, Part 1
”It was my good fortune to lend a helping hand to the weary travelers flying from the land of bondage.” William Still. "Dear Sir:—For most of the years I have lived, the escape of fugitives from slavery, and their efforts to baffle the human and other bloodhounds who tracked them, formed the romance of American History. That romance is now ended, and our grandchildren will hardly believe its leading incidents except on irresistible testimony. I rejoice that you are collecting and presenting that testimony, and heartily wish you a great success... |
By: John Dee (1527-1608) | |
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The Private Diary of Dr. John Dee And the Catalog of His Library of Manuscripts |
By: Bertram Mitford (1855-1914) | |
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The Sign of the Spider |
By: Esther Singleton (-1930) | |
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Russia As Seen and Described by Famous Writers |
By: S. A. Reilly | |
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Our Legal Heritage |
By: Charles Babbage (1792-1871) | |
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Reflections on the Decline of Science in England |
By: Alphonse de Lamartine (1790-1869) | |
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History of the Girondists, Volume I Personal Memoirs of the Patriots of the French Revolution |
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: Edward Alexander Powell (1879-1957) | |
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Where the Strange Trails Go Down Sulu, Borneo, Celebes, Bali, Java, Sumatra, Straits Settlements, Malay States, Siam, Cambodia, Annam, Cochin-China |
By: Louis Constant Wairy (1778-1845) | |
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Recollections of the Private Life of Napoleon |
By: Edward Alexander Powell (1879-1957) | |
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Fighting in Flanders | |
The New Frontiers of Freedom from the Alps to the Ægean | |
Italy at War and the Allies in the West |
By: Louis Constant Wairy (1778-1845) | |
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Mémoires de Constant |
By: Jefferson Davis (1808-1889) | |
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Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, Volume 1a
The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government (1881) is written by Jefferson Davis, former President of the Confederate States of America during the American Civil War. Davis wrote the book as a straightforward history of the Confederate States of America and as an apologia for the causes that he believed led to and justified the American Civil War. Davis spared little detail in describing every aspect of the Confederate constitution and government, in addition to which he retold in detail numerous military campaigns... |
By: Jefferson Davis (1808-1889) | |
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Speeches of the Hon. Jefferson Davis, of Mississippi |
By: Hiram Bingham (1875-1956) | |
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Inca Lands
Prof. Hiram Bingham of Yale Makes the Greatest Archaeological Discovery of the Age by Locating and Excavating Ruins of Machu Picchu on a Peak in the Andes of Peru.There is nothing new under the sun, they say. That is only relatively true. Just now, when we thought there was practically no portion of the earth's surface still unknown, when the discovery of a single lake or mountain, or the charting of a remote strip of coast line was enough to give a man fame as an explorer, one member of the daredevil explorers' craft has "struck it rich... |