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Wilderness; A Journal Of Quiet Adventure In Alaska

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Rockwell Kent


The illustrator and author Rockwell Kent (1882-1971)wrote and illustrated this description of a trip to Alaska with his eldest son. Though a…

Myths And Legends Of California And The Old Southwest

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Katharine Berry Judson


"...The preparation of a volume of the quainter, purer myths, suitable for general reading, authentic, and with illustrations of the co…

Finn The Wolfhound

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Alec John Dawson


Dawson published over thirty books, the one best remembered today probably being the animal adventure story Finn the Wolfhound (1908)…. Hi…

A Cruise in an Opium Clipper

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Lindsay Anderson


Eamont was an opium clipper built in Cowes. It was the subject of an 1891 book, A cruise in an opium clipper, by Captain Lindsay Anderson. …

Invention And Discovery: Curious Facts And Characteristic Sketches

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Unknown


"In this little volume are brought together a number of sketches and memoranda, illustrating the history of discovery, and the lives an…

The Madman: His Parables And Poems and The Forerunner: His Parables And Poems

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Kahlil Gibran


Two short books by the Lebanese-American writer, poet, and mystic. Reflections on existence and life, purpose and meaning. His most famous w…

Old Testament Legends Being Stories Out Of Some Of The Less-Known Apocryphal Bo…

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M. R. James


M R James was a well regarded English scholar who studied the medieval period (he also wrote great ghost stories!). Apocryphal books are a…

Henry Wirz, Commander of Andersonville Confederate Prison: Trial and Execution

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United States Army Staff Judge Advocate


Henry Wirz (November 25, 1823 – November 10, 1865) was the only Confederate soldier tried after the end of the American Civi War. He was tri…

Christmas With Lucy Maud Montgomery: A Selection Of Stories

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Lucy Maud Montgomery


This work is a selection of Christmas stories (or sometimes chapters) of Lucy Maud Montgomery from different sources and different times. Th…

Famous Assassinations Of History

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Francis Johnson


It has been the object of the writer to make each of these “famous assassinations” the central scene of a picture in which the political, re…

Ghosts And Family Legends; A Volume For Christmas

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Catherine Crowe


Fifteen ghost stories to hear around the Yule log. "It happened that I spent the last winter in a large country mansion, in the north o…

Pioneer Life Among The Loyalists In Upper Canada

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Walter Stevens Herrington


What became of the citizens who remained loyal to the Crown when the thirteen British colonies rebelled against England – and won! These Lo…

Just Sweethearts; A Christmas Love Story

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Harry Stillwell Edwards


“Clearly he was one of those rare beings who can radiate energy standing still and convey the impression of impetuous force without motion, …

The Flint Heart

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Eden Phillpotts


The flint heart is a stone of heart shape, forged in prehistoric times, that changes whoever owns it into a wicked person. The story of the …

Christmas Stories From 'Household Words' And 'All The Year Round'

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Charles Dickens


Twenty stories originally published in the Christmas editions of the magazines “Household Words” and “All The Year Round”. Some of the stori…

Yellowstone National Park: Six Early Pieces

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Various


Lost in the wilderness of The Yellowstone for over a month, nearly dying of starvation and wild animal attack, despairing of ever finding hi…

My Hunt After 'The Captain'

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Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.


Holmes describes his frantic search through Civil War torn landscapes for his wounded son, the future Supreme Court Justice. Originally publ…

Wounds In The Rain; War Stories

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Stephen Crane


Eleven stories of war by the author of The Red Badge of Courage. Stephen Crane was an American author. He is recognized by modern critics …

Narrative of the operations and recent discoveries within the pyramids, temples…

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Giovanni Battista Belzoni


Giovanni Battista Belzoni (1778 – 1823) was an Italian explorer and pioneer archaeologist of Egyptian antiquities. He is known for his remo…

The Bomb: The 1945 Test of the First Atomic Bomb

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Various


These two publications put out by the U.S. government are about the Trinity site in New Mexico where in 1945 the first atomic bomb was teste…

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