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The Romance of Excavation

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David Masters



The Romance of Excavation: A Record of the Amazing Discoveries in Egypt, Assyria, Troy, Crete, etc., with Twenty-Nine Illustrations,From the…

Tutankhamen: and the Discovery of His Tomb by the Late Earl of Carnarvon and Mr…

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Sir Grafton Elliot Smith



(From the Introduction) “Never before in the history of archaeological inquiry has any event excited such immediate and world-wide interest …

A History of California: The Spanish Period

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Charles Edward Chapman



If you have ever wondered why Spain (and not Japan, which was so so much better positioned to do it) was first to “settle” the Golden State,…

A History of California: The American Period

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Robert Glass Cleland



The Author's own summary surveys “first the faint awakenings of American interest in the Spanish province of Alta California. The New Englan…

Europe In The Middle Ages

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Ierne Lifford Plunket



Though sometimes called the "Dark Ages", the period of Middle Ages is far from dull or uninteresting. In this book I. L. Plunket m…

The Secret of the Sahara: Kufara

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Rosita Forbes



In an age when women were expected to remain at home, entertain, and rear children, Rosita Forbes elected "to boldly go where no one ha…

Round About a Great Estate

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Richard Jefferies



John Richard Jefferies (1848-1887) wrote of country life, natural history, and agricultural practice at a time when the industrial revolutio…

The Cruise of the Alerte - In Search of Treasure

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Edward Frederick Knight



The book describes a voyage undertaken in 1889 by an English barrister Edward Frederick Knight to the South Seas. This delightful story take…

The Cruise of the Falcon - A Voyage to South America in a 30-Ton Yacht

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Edward Frederick Knight



In this fine sailing and exploring yarn, Edward Frederick Knight (1852-1925), sometime English barrister, journalist, sportsman, and amateur…

The Tickencote Treasure

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William Le Queux



Paul Pickering is a doctor without a fixed practice, and when an old sea captain asks him to join a voyage around the Mediterranean, that's …

Despoilers of the Golden Empire

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Randall Garrett



A handful of men, and an incredible adventure—a few super-men, led by a fanatic, seeking to conquer a new world! The story appears to be ab…

An Introduction to the History of Science

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Walter Libby



A highly accessible introductory history of the development of scientific thought, method, and application from the first practical concepts…

California Desert Trails

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Joseph Smeaton Chase



"I fell an easy prey to the beckonings of the other principal feature of California's topography, the dreamy, dreary desert. Long ago, …

Money to Burn, An Adventure Story

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Reginald Wright Kauffman



From the dedication: "On a train by day, or abed by night, you will read "Money to Burn" and immediately forget it--which is …

The North West Passage -The Gjöa Expedition 1903-1907 (Volume I)

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Roald Amundsen



Roald Amundsen and six hearty seafarers tackle the North West Passage in search of the elusive wandering magnetic North Pole. (Summary by St…

The North West Passage -The Gjöa Expedition 1903-1907 (Volume II)

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Roald Amundsen



Volume II of Roald Amundsen's The Northwest Passage. Roald Amundsen and six hearty seafarers in the tiny sloop Gjöa are the first to ma…

In Quest of El Dorado

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Stephen Graham



Lively (and often unsparing) descriptions of the people, places, and customs that the author encounters as he attempts to retrace the steps …

In the Land of Cave and Cliff Dwellers

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Frederick Schwatka



An adventurer and explorer of no mean repute, Lieutenant Frederick Schwatka leads an expedition by mule train into the forbidding Sierra Mad…

The Last Secrets

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John Buchan



The author, John Buchan, maintains that "the main lines of the earth's architecture have been determined" during the first two dec…

In the Heart of Africa

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Samuel White Baker



A wonderfully readable condensation of two of Baker's earlier, longer works recounting his self-sponsored expeditions into the Dark Continen…

The Lost Mr. Linthwaite

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J. S. Fletcher



A quest to track down his missing uncle (Mr. Linthwaite) leads investigative journalist Richard Brixey to the mysterious medieval town of Si…

The Wild North Land, The Story of a Winter Journey with Dogs across Northern No…

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William Francis Butler



This book was published in 1910.Not only do Mad Dogs and Englishmen go out in the noonday sun, but it seems that sometimes they venture into…

The Count's Chauffeur

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William Le Queux



When car-crazy George Ewart accepts employment as chauffeur to Count Bindo di Ferraris, an Italian aristocrat, he has no idea what he has ju…

The Wreck of the Corsaire

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William Clark Russell



This book was published in 1897. When cabin passenger Mr. Catesby climbs into the rigging of the Ruby in search of cooler air, he is struck …

Peaks of Shala

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Rose Wilder Lane



This book was published in 1923. From the author's own Introduction: "I would not have this book considered too seriously. It is not an…

From Pole to Pole: A Book for Young People

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Sven Hedin



This book was first published in 1912. It is a simplified English translation of the author's Från pol till pol: genom Asien och Europ…

The Clevedon Case

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Nancy Oakley, John Oakley and Nancy Oakleyandjohn Oakley



Quoting from a "teaser" on the flyleaf:The well-known authority on criminology, Dennis Holt, inherited a house in a remote village…

Three Gringos in Venezuela and Central America

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Richard Harding Davis



In the 1890's, three American adventurers in search of warmer weather explore Central and South American cities by steamship and on horsebac…

The Lost Oases

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Ahmed Hassanein



This book was published in 1925. Oxford-educated Egyptian diplomat and geographic explorer, Hassanein Bey (Ahmad Muhammad Hassanayn), with t…

The Story of Geographical Discovery: How the World Became Known

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Joseph Jacobs



This book was first published in 1897. It's a short work, but it encompasses a vast subject—nothing less than determining the detailed geogr…

In the Wake of the Buccaneers

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Alpheus Hyatt Verrill



Ah, the Buccaneers... “We hear much of the bold, wild ways of these adventurers; Perchance it is the fact that we all appreciate bravery—and…