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By: George Washington Julian (1817-1899) | |
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Political Recollections 1840 to 1872 |
By: George Washington Rains (1817-1898) | |
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History of the Confederate Powder Works |
By: George Washington Williams (1849-1891) | |
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History of the Negro Race in America From 1619 to 1880. Vol 1 Negroes as Slaves, as Soldiers, and as Citizens | |
By: George Whale | |
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British Airships, Past, Present, and Future |
By: George Wharton Edwards (1859-1950) | |
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Vanished towers and chimes of Flanders |
By: George Wharton James (1858-1923) | |
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The Lake of the Sky by George Wharton James | |
The Grand Canyon of Arizona; how to see it |
By: George William Cox (1827-1902) | |
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Crusades
The Crusades were a series of religious wars fought between 1096 and 1272 to recover the Holy Land from Islamic rule. According to the Latin Church, Crusaders were penitent pilgrims whose sins were forgiven. British historian, George Cox, writes of the churchmen, great and small, who inspired the Crusades, of the warriors who left families and lands behind, of the wily Venetian merchants and Byzantine emperors who exploited the knights, and of the valor of the Saracens. Here are accounts of sublime sacrifice and bestial ferocity, of dynastic conflict within the Crusader States, of sieges, starvation, pestilence, and ambush, and of the clash and interpenetration of two cultures... |
By: George William Erskine Russell (1853-1919) | |
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Prime Ministers and Some Others A Book of Reminiscences | |
Fifteen Chapters of Autobiography |
By: George William Russell (1867-1935) | |
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The National Being Some Thoughts on an Irish Polity |
By: George-Günther Freiherr von Forstner (1882-1940) | |
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The Journal of Submarine Commander Von Forstner
The Journal of Submarine Commander Von Forstner is a graphic account of WWI submarine warfare. Forstner was the commander of German U-boat U-28. His journal, first published 1916, gives a gritty picture of daily life inside a submarine and details several torpedo attacks on Allied shipping. The 1917 translation of Forstner’s journal into English was unquestionably intended to bolster the Allied war effort. In the foreword, the translator states: “Nothing at the present day has aroused such fear as this invisible enemy, nor has anything outraged the civilized world like the tragedies caused by the German submarines... |
By: Georges Duhamel (1884-1966) | |
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The New Book of Martyrs |
By: Georges Perrot (1832-1914) | |
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A History of Art in Chaldæa & Assyria, v. 1 |
By: Gerald B. (Gerald Berkeley) Hurst (1877-1957) | |
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With Manchesters in the East |
By: Gerald Featherstone Knight (1894-) | |
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'Brother Bosch', an Airman's Escape from Germany |
By: Gerald Prance | |
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The Land of the Black Mountain The Adventures of Two Englishmen in Montenegro |
By: Gerald Stanley Lee (1862-1944) | |
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The Ghost in the White House |
By: Gerard Fowke (1855-1933) | |
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Archeological Investigations Bureau of American Ethnology, Bulletin 76 |
By: Geronimo (1829-1909) | |
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Geronimo’s Story of His Life
Geronimo’s Story of His Life is the oral life history of a legendary Apache warrior. Composed in 1905, while Geronimo was being held as a U.S. prisoner of war at Fort Sill, Oklahoma, Geronimo’s story found audience and publication through the efforts of S. M. Barrett--Lawton, Oklahoma, Superintendent of Education, who wrote in his preface that “the initial idea of the compilation of this work was . . . to extend to Geronimo as a prisoner of war the courtesy due any captive, i.e. the right to state the causes which impelled him in his opposition to our civilization and laws... |
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: Gertrude Bell (1868-1926) | |
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Syria: the Desert and the Sown
Gertrude Bell's Syria: The Desert and the Sown describes her travels in the Levant during the first years of the 20th century. In this vivid and painstakingly documented narrative, Bell recounts her visits to Damascus, Jerusalem, Beirut, Antioch and Alexandretta, as well as the time she spent in the deserts of the region. Fluent in Arabic and several other languages, Bell brings to her account a level of insight beyond the reach of an average travel writer. She would later go on to play a highly influential role in the politics of the Middle East, drawing on the knowledge and personal connections she built up during these and other travels... |
By: Gertrude Burford Rawlings | |
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The Story of Books
Rawlings follows the development of printing from the origins of writing to modern printing. Some of the earliest records are ancient Egyptian, Greek and Roman recordings on papyrus and wax tablets. However, Rawlings acknowledges the sparse nature of this first fragile evidence, and limits speculation.Later, libraries of religious books grew in Europe, where monks copied individual books in monasteries. The "block printing" technique began with illustrations carved in wood blocks, while the text needed to be written by hand... |
By: Giacomo Casanova (1725-1798) | |
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The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova
This is the first of five volumes. – Giacomo Casanova (1725 in Venice – 1798 in Dux, Bohemia, now Duchcov, Czech Republic) was a famous Venetian adventurer, writer, and womanizer. He used charm, guile, threats, intimidation, and aggression, when necessary, to conquer women, sometimes leaving behind children or debt. In his autobiography Histoire de ma vie (Story of My Life), regarded as one of the most authentic sources of the customs and norms of European social life during the 18th century, he mentions 122 women with whom he had sex... | |
Memoirs of Casanova — Volume 01: Childhood | |
Quotes and Images from the Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt |
By: Gilbert Parker (1862-1932) | |
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Old Quebec The Fortress of New France | |
Seats of The Mighty | |
The Trail of the Sword |
By: Gilbert W. (Gilbert Wolf) Gabriel (1890-1952) | |
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The Seven-Branched Candlestick The Schooldays of Young American Jew |
By: Gilbert White (1720-1793) | |
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The Natural History of Selborne
The Reverend Gilbert White was the curate of the village of Selborne, a village in Hampshire, from 1784 to his death in 1793, living most of his life in the village. The book is in the form of a collection of letters to two friends, discussing the natural history of the areas that he knew, and natural history in general. White’s intense curiosity and his love for the world about him flow through his simple, straightforward style, and a gentle sense of humour colours many of his anecdotes. | |
The Natural History of Selborne, Vol. 1 | |
The Natural History of Selborne, Vol. 2 |
By: Gildas | |
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On the Ruin of Britain
Gildas was a well-informed and definitely opinionated 6th century commentator on the topic of the era of the Roman occupation of Britain beginning in AD 43, the subsequent desertion of Britain by the legions in AD 410, and then invasions by the Scots, Picts and Saxons. Gildas was critical of his fellow Britons, accusing them of unwarranted rebellion against the beneficial rule of Roman law, and of then pusillanimously calling upon Rome to help them defend against the invading Picts and Scots from the north... |
By: Giles Gossip | |
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Coronation Anecdotes |
By: Giles Lytton Strachey (1880-1932) | |
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Eminent Victorians
On Modern Library's list of 100 Best Non-Fiction books, "Eminent Victorians" marked an epoch in the art of biography; it also helped to crack the old myths of high Victorianism and to usher in a new spirit by which chauvinism, hypocrisy and the stiff upper lip were debunked. In it, Strachey cleverly exposes the self-seeking ambitions of Cardinal Manning and the manipulative, neurotic Florence Nightingale; and in his essays on Dr Arnold and General Gordon, his quarries are not only his subjects but also the public-school system and the whole structure of nineteenth-century liberal values. |
By: Giorgio Vasari (1511-1574) | |
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Lives of the Most Eminent Painters, Sculptors and Architects
The Lives of the Most Excellent Italian Painters, Sculptors, and Architects, from Cimabue to Our Times, or Le Vite delle più eccellenti pittori, scultori, ed architettori, as it was originally known in Italian, is a series of artist biographies written by 16th century Italian painter and architect Giorgio Vasari, which is considered "perhaps the most famous, and even today the most- read work of the older literature of art", "some of the Italian Renaissance's most influential writing on art", and "one of the founding texts in art history"... |
By: Giovanni Battista Cerruti (1850-1914) | |
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My Friends the Savages Notes and Observations of a Perak settler (Malay Peninsula) |
By: Giovanni Boccaccio (1313-1375) | |
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The Decameron
Giovanni Boccaccio’s The Decameron is a collection of novellas or short novels written during the 14th century. There are 100 tales contained in the book which is presented together. The book’s title The Decameron combines the two Greek words “deka” meaning ten and “hemera” meaning day. The title can be literally translated as “ten day,” which is also the time frame in which the stories are told by the 7 young women and 3 young men. In the book, each of the ten persons took their turns to tell stories for a day... |
By: Giovanni Verga (1840-1922) | |
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House by the Medlar Tree
In a nineteenth century Sicilian fishing village, the Malavoglia family gambles everything on being able to profit from a cargo of lupin nuts. The cargo is lost at sea and a succession of misfortunes and tragedies assails the family. A masterpiece of social commentary hailed within Italy but neglected by the wider world, The House by the Medlar Tree ranks alongside the works of Zola, Dickens or Balzac among the great books of European literature. The book is the inspiration behind the 1948 film 'La Terra Trema' , one of the earliest works of the great Italian director Luchino Visconti. - Summary by Tom Denholm |
By: Giovanni-Andrea Gallini (1728-1805) | |
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A Treatise on the Art of Dancing |
By: Gipsy Smith (1860-1947) | |
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Your Boys |
By: Giraldus Cambrensis (1146-1223) | |
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The Description of Wales | |
The itinerary of Archbishop Baldwin through Wales |
By: Glenn D. Bradley (1884-1930) | |
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The Story of the Pony Express
The Story of the Pony Express offers an in depth account behind the need for a mail route to connect the eastern U.S. with the rapidly populating west coast following the gold rush of California, the springing up of lumber camps, and all incidental needs arising from the settling of the western frontier. Here we learn of the inception of the Pony Express, its formation, successes, failures, facts, statistics, combined with many anecdotes and names of the people who were an integral part of this incredible entity which lasted but less than two years, yet was instrumental in the successful settlement of two thirds of the land mass comprising the expanding country... |
By: Glenna Lindsley Bigelow | |
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Liége on the Line of March An American Girl's Experiences When the Germans Came Through Belgium |
By: Glyn Barlow | |
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The Story of Madras |
By: Godfrey Rathbone Benson Charnwood (1864-1945) | |
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Abraham Lincoln |
By: Gottfried Achenwall (1719-1772) | |
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Achenwall's Observations on North America |
By: Government Virginia. History | |
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The Road to Independence: Virginia 1763-1783 |
By: Grace Aguilar (1816-1847) | |
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The Days of Bruce Vol 1 A Story from Scottish History |
By: Grace Dunlop Peter | |
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A Portrait of Old George Town |