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By: Isabella L. Bird (1831-1904) | |
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Unbeaten Tracks in Japan
Isabella Lucy Bird was a 19th century English traveller, writer, and natural historian. She was a sickly child, however, while she was travelling she was almost always healthy. Her first trip, in 1854, took her to America, visiting relatives. Her first book, The Englishwoman in America was published anonymously two years later. Unbeaten Tracks in Japan is compiled of the letters she sent to her sister during her 7 months sojourn in Japan in 1878. Her travels there took her from Edo (now called Tokyo) through the interior - where she was often the first foreigner the locals had met - to Niigata, and from there to Aomori... | |
Among the Tibetans
Isabella L. Bird was an English traveller, writer and natural historian. She was travelling in the Far East alone at a time when such endeavours were risky and dangerous even for men and large, better equipped parties. In "Among the Tibetans", Bird describes her tour through Tibet with her usual keen eye: From descriptions of the landscape and flora to the manners, customs and religion of the local people we get a fascinating account of a world long past. | |
The Golden Chersonese and the Way Thither |
By: Rupert Hughes (1872-1956) | |
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Contemporary American Composers Being a Study of the Music of This Country |
By: Dion Clayton Calthrop (1878-1937) | |
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English Costume
The world, if we choose to see it so, is a complicated picture of people dressing and undressing. The history of the world is composed of the chat of a little band of tailors seated cross-legged on their boards; they gossip across the centuries, feeling, as they should, very busy and important. As you will see, I have devoted myself entirely to civil costume—that is, the clothes a man or a woman would wear from choice, and not by reason of an appointment to some ecclesiastical post, or to a military calling, or to the Bar, or the Bench. Such clothes are but symbols of their trades and professions, and have been dealt with by persons who specialize in those professions. |
By: Charles Alexander Eastman (1858-1939) | |
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Indian Child Life
The author was raised as an American Indian and describes what it was like to be an Indian boy (the first 7 chapters) and an Indian Girl (the last 7 chapters). This is very different from the slanted way the white man tried to picture them as 'savages' and 'brutes.'Quote: Dear Children:—You will like to know that the man who wrote these true stories is himself one of the people he describes so pleasantly and so lovingly for you. He hopes that when you have finished this book, the Indians will seem to you very real and very friendly... |
By: Charles Alexander Eastman (1858-1939) | |
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Wigwam Evenings Sioux Folk Tales Retold | |
Indian To-day
Based in part upon the author's own observations and personal knowledge, it was the aim of the book to set forth the status and outlook of the North American Indian. He addressed issues such as Indian schools, health, government policy and agencies, and citizenship in this book. In connection with his writings, Eastman was in steady demand as a lecturer and public speaker with the purpose of interpreting his race to the present age. |
By: Vernon Lee (1856-1935) | |
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The Spirit of Rome | |
The Countess of Albany |
By: Gustave Le Bon (1841-1931) | |
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The Psychology of Revolution |
By: Marmaduke William Pickthall (1875-1936) | |
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Oriental Encounters Palestine and Syria, 1894-6 |
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: Frederick Jackson Turner (1861-1932) | |
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Rise of the New West, 1819-1829 | |
The Character and Influence of the Indian Trade in Wisconsin |
By: Wayne Whipple (1856-1942) | |
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Story of Young Abraham Lincoln
This is a careful and fascinating collection of interviews with people who knew Lincoln as a boy and young man. A glimpse into the type of person he was from the very beginning. "All the world loves a lover"—and Abraham Lincoln loved everybody. With all his brain and brawn, his real greatness was in his heart. He has been called "the Great-Heart of the White House," and there is little doubt that more people have heard about him than there are who have read of the original "Great-Heart" in "The Pilgrim's Progress... |
By: Charles Reade (1814-1884) | |
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White Lies |
By: Peter Fisher (1782-1848) | |
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History of New Brunswick
Originally published in 1825 under the title: Sketches of New Brunswick : containing an account of the first settlement of the province, with a brief description of the country, climate, productions, inhabitants, government, rivers, towns, settlements, public institutions, trade, revenue, population, &c., by an inhabitant of the province. The value of this history is in the fact that it was written when the Province was still in its infancy. Although there had been a few small settlements established in New Brunswick prior to 1783, the main influx of settlers were Loyalists who chose to remove to the area from the United States following the American Revolution. |
By: Irvin S. Cobb (1876-1944) | |
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Roughing it De Luxe |
By: Milburg F. Mansfield (1871-) | |
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Dickens' London | |
Royal Palaces and Parks of France | |
The Automobilist Abroad | |
The Cathedrals of Northern France |
By: W. F. (William Francis) Dawson | |
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Christmas: Its Origin and Associations Together with Its Historical Events and Festive Celebrations During Nineteen Centuries |
By: Andrew Carnegie (1835-1919) | |
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Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie
This autobiography of Andrew Carnegie is a very well written and interesting history of one of the most wealthy men in the United states. He was born in Scotland in 1835 and emigrated to America in 1848. Among his many accomplishments and philanthropic works, he was an author, having written, besides this autobiography, Triumphant Democracy (1886; rev. ed. 1893), The Gospel of Wealth, a collection of essays (1900), The Empire of Business (1902), and Problems of To-day (1908)]. Although this autobiography was written in 1919, it was published posthumously in 1920. |
By: Julian Stafford Corbett (1854-1922) | |
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Fighting Instructions, 1530-1816 Publications Of The Navy Records Society Vol. XXIX. |
By: Charles L. (Charles Larcom) Graves (1856-1944) | |
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Mr. Punch's History of the Great War |
By: Edward Gaylord Bourne (1860-1908) | |
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The Northmen, Columbus and Cabot, 985-1503 |
By: Alfred John Church (1829-1912) | |
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Stories From Livy | |
Roman life in the days of Cicero |
By: John McElroy (1846-1929) | |
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Andersonville A Story of Rebel Military Prisons | |
Andersonville — Volume 1 A Story of Rebel Military Prisons | |
The Red Acorn |
By: Robert Southey (1774-1843) | |
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The Life of Horatio Lord Nelson |
By: Margaret Sanger (1879-1966) | |
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Woman and the New Race
Margaret Sanger was an American sex educator and nurse who became one of the leading birth control activists of her time, having at one point, even served jail time for importing birth control pills, then illegal, into the United States. Woman and the New Race is her treatise on how the control of population size would not only free women from the bondage of forced motherhood, but would elevate all of society. The original fight for birth control was closely tied to the labor movement as well as the Eugenics movement, and her book provides fascinating insight to a mostly-forgotten turbulent battle recently fought in American history. |
By: Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman (1852-1930) | |
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The Heart's Highway |
By: Edward Everett Hale (1822-1909) | |
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The Life of Columbus From His Own Letters and Journals and Other Documents of His Time |
By: New York Central Railroad Company | |
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The Greatest Highway in the World Historical |
By: Hattie Greene Lockett (1880-1962) | |
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The Unwritten Literature of the Hopi |
By: Frank Henderson | |
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Six Years in the Prisons of England
A Merchant talks about daily life inside prisons of England, describes routines and how prisoners are treated. He notes stories of how fellow prisoners came to be in prison, and his ideas about the penal system, its downfalls and ways to improve it. The reader can see similarities to the problems we still have in regarding "criminals" today. (Introduction by Elaine Webb) |
By: Lydia Maria Francis Child (1802-1880) | |
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An Appeal in Favor of that Class of Americans Called Africans |
By: Kate Dickinson Sweetser (-1939) | |
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Ten American Girls From History |
By: M. Mignet (1796-1884) | |
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History of the French Revolution from 1789 to 1814 |
By: S. Baring-Gould (1834-1924) | |
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Curious Myths of the Middle Ages
This volume is an example of Sabine Baring-Gould's extensive research into the middle ages. This volume of 12 curiosities was one of Baring-Gould's most successful publications. |
By: William H. Hudson (1841-1922) | |
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Afoot in England |
By: Robert Stawell Ball (1840-1913) | |
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Great Astronomers
Of all the natural sciences there is not one which offers such sublime objects to the attention of the inquirer as does the science of astronomy. From the earliest ages the study of the stars has exercised the same fascination as it possesses at the present day. Among the most primitive peoples, the movements of the sun, the moon, and the stars commanded attention from their supposed influence on human affairs. From the days of Hipparchus down to the present hour the science of astronomy has steadily grown... |
By: Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr (1831-1919) | |
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Remember the Alamo |
By: William Charles Henry Wood (1864-1947) | |
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Captains of the Civil War; a chronicle of the blue and the gray | |
Flag and Fleet How the British Navy Won the Freedom of the Seas |
By: William Wood (1864-1947) | |
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Chronicles of Canada Volume 31 - All Afloat: A Chronicle of Craft and Waterways
No exhaustive Canadian 'water history' can possibly be attempted here. That would require a series of its own. But at least a first attempt will be made to give some general idea of what such a history would contain in fuller detail: of the kayaks and canoes the Eskimos and Indians used before the white man came, and use today; of the small craft moved by oar and sail that slowly displaced those moved only by the paddle; of the sailing vessels proper, and how they plied along Canadian waterways,... |
By: George Hart (1839-1891) | |
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The Violin Its Famous Makers and Their Imitators |
By: Albert C. Manucy | |
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Artillery Through the Ages A Short Illustrated History of Cannon, Emphasizing Types Used in America |
By: T. L. (Thomas Louis) Haines (1844-) | |
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Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life |
By: Annie E. Keeling | |
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Great Britain and Her Queen |
By: Hippolyte Taine (1828-1893) | |
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The Ancient Regime | |
The French Revolution | |
The Modern Regime, Volume 1 | |
The Origins of Contemporary France, Complete Table of Contents | |
The Modern Regime, Volume 2 |
By: John Fiske (1842-1901) | |
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The Discovery of America Vol. 1 (of 2) with some account of Ancient America and the Spanish Conquest | |
The War of Independence | |
The Critical Period of American History |
By: Francis Haverfield (1860-1919) | |
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Roman Britain in 1914 | |
The Romanization of Roman Britain |
By: William C. Scully (1855-1943) | |
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Reminiscences of a South African Pioneer |
By: Wolfram Eberhard (1909-1989) | |
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A history of China., [3d ed. rev. and enl.] |
By: Charles Waddell Chesnutt (1858-1932) | |
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Colonel's Dream
In this novel, Chesnutt described the hopelessness of Reconstruction in a post-Civil War South that was bent on reestablishing the former status quo and rebuilding itself as a region of the United States where new forms of "slavery" would replace the old. This novel illustrated how race hatred and the impotence of a reluctant Federal Government trumped the rule of law, ultimately setting the stage for the rise of institutions such as Jim Crow, lynching, chain gangs and work farms--all established with the intent of disenfranchising African Americans. |
By: S. Weir Mitchell (1829-1914) | |
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A Diplomatic Adventure |
By: Charles Godfrey Leland (1824-1903) | |
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The English Gipsies and Their Language | |
The Gypsies | |
Algonquin Legends of New England |
By: Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815-1902) | |
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History of Woman Suffrage, Volume I |
By: Mary Platt Parmele (1843-1911) | |
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A Short History of France | |
A Short History of Russia | |
A Short History of Spain | |
A Short History of England, Ireland and Scotland |