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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…

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 …

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 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 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…

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 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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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 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 …

Prayers and Meditations

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Samuel Johnson


The prayers and meditations of Samuel Johnson, published posthumously by George Strahan to whom Johnson had entrusted the manuscripts. Johns…

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…

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, …

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…

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 …

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…

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…

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