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Its pages form the record of events\r\nthat really happened. All that has been done is to\r\ncolour them; and, for this, no extra charge\r\nhas been made. George and Harris and Montmorency are\r\nnot poetic ideals, but things of flesh and\r\nbloodespecially George, who weighs about twelve\r\nstone. Other works may excel this in depth of thought\r\nand knowledge of human nature: other books may rival it in\r\noriginality and size; but, for hopeless and\r\nincurable veracity, nothing yet discovered can surpass\r\nit. This, more than all its other charms,\r\nwill, it is felt, make the volume precious in\r\nthe eye of the earnest reader; and will lend additional\r\nweight to the lesson that the story teaches.\nLondon, August, 1889.\n\n\n\n\nThree invalids.Sufferings of George and\r\nHarris.A victim to one hundred and seven fatal\r\nmaladies.Useful prescriptions.Cure for liver\r\ncomplaint in children.We agree that we are overworked, and\r\nneed rest.A week on the rolling deep?George\r\nsuggests the River.Montmorency lodges an\r\nobjection.Original motion carried by majority of three to\r\none.\n\u003cb\u003e ......Buy Now (To Read More)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eProduct details\u003ch3\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEbook Number\u003c\/b\u003e: 308 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor\u003c\/b\u003e: Jerome, Jerome K. 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The writer was for many years my closest\nfriend. It was in the summer of 1873 that a lady, whose\ngracious influence has helped to shape and encourage more than\none distinguished career, first awakened my interest in him and\ndrew us together. He was at that time a lad of twenty-two,\nwith his powers not yet set nor his way of life determined.\nBut to know him was to recognise at once that here was a young\ngenius of whom great things might be expected. A slender,\nboyish presence, with a graceful, somewhat fantastic bearing, and\na singular power and attraction in the eyes and smile, were the\nsigns that first impressed you; and the impression was quickly\nconfirmed and deepened by the charm of his talk, which was\nirresistibly sympathetic and inspiring, and not less full of\nmatter than of mirth. I have known no man in whom the\npoets heart and imagination were combined with such a\nbrilliant strain of humour and such an unsleeping alertness and\nadroitness of the critical intelligence. But it was only in\nconversation that he could as yet p. xiido himself justice. His\nearliest efforts in literature were of a very uneven and\ntentative quality. The reason partly was that in mode of\nexpression and choice of language, no less than in the formation\nof opinion and the conduct of life, he was impatient, even to\nexcess, of the conventional, the accepted, and the trite.\nHis perceptions and emotions were acute and vivid in the extreme;\nhis judgments, whether founded on experience, reading,\ndiscussion, or caprice (and a surprising amount of all these\nthings had been crowded into his youthful existence) were not\nless fresh and personal; while to his ardent fancy the world was\na theatre glowing with the lights and bustling with the incidents\nof romance. To find for all he had to say words of vital\naptness and animationto communicate as much as possible of\nwhat he has somewhere called the incommunicable thrill of\nthingswas from the first his endeavour in\nliterature, nay more, it was the main passion of his life.\nThe instrument that should serve his purpose could not be forged\nin haste, still less could it be adopted at second hand or\nready-made; and he has himself narrated how long and toilsome was\nthe apprenticeship he served.\n\u003cb\u003e ......Buy Now (To Read More)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eProduct details\u003ch3\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEbook Number\u003c\/b\u003e: 387 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor\u003c\/b\u003e: Stevenson, Robert Louis \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eRelease Date\u003c\/b\u003e: Jan 1, 1996 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat\u003c\/b\u003e: eBook \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage\u003c\/b\u003e: English \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"booksdeli.com","offers":[{"title":"Stevenson, Robert Louis,1850-1894 \/ eBook \/ English","offer_id":43211122606237,"sku":"gb-387-ebook","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0619\/5648\/9373\/products\/387_704971cb-eb39-4939-9d3a-cdf6b240c634.jpg?v=1671247985"},{"product_id":"the-bible-in-spain-gb-415","title":"The Bible in Spain","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Bible in Spain\r - Or, the Journeys, Adventures, and Imprisonments of an Englishman, in an Attempt to Circulate the Scriptures in the Peninsula\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt is very seldom that the preface of a work is read; indeed,\r\nof late years, most books have been sent into the world without\r\nany. 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I am no tourist,\r\nno writer of books of travels; but I went there on a somewhat\r\nremarkable errand, which necessarily led me into strange\r\nsituations and positions, involved me in difficulties and\r\nperplexities, and brought me into contact with people of all\r\ndescriptions and grades; so that, upon the whole, I flatter\r\nmyself that a narrative of such a pilgrimage may not be wholly\r\nuninteresting to the public, more especially as the subject is\r\nnot trite; for though various books have been published about\r\nSpain, I believe that the present is the only one in existence\r\nwhich treats of missionary labour in that country.\n\u003cb\u003e ......Buy Now (To Read More)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eProduct details\u003ch3\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEbook Number\u003c\/b\u003e: 415 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor\u003c\/b\u003e: Borrow, George \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eRelease Date\u003c\/b\u003e: Jan 1, 1996 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat\u003c\/b\u003e: eBook \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage\u003c\/b\u003e: English \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"booksdeli.com","offers":[{"title":"Borrow, George,1803-1881 \/ eBook \/ English","offer_id":43211126702237,"sku":"gb-415-ebook","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0619\/5648\/9373\/products\/415_b499131a-d505-49ce-81df-588fa8d50f13.jpg?v=1671248050"},{"product_id":"the-silverado-squatters-gb-516","title":"The Silverado Squatters","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Silverado Squatters\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe scene of this little book is on\na high mountain. There are, indeed, many higher; there are\nmany of a nobler outline. It is no place of pilgrimage for\nthe summary globe-trotter; but to one who lives upon its sides,\nMount Saint Helena soon becomes a centre of interest. It is\nthe Mont Blanc of one section of the Californian Coast Range,\nnone of its near neighbours rising to one-half its\naltitude. It looks down on much green, intricate\ncountry. It feeds in the spring-time many splashing\nbrooks. From its summit you must have an excellent lesson\nof geography: seeing, to the south, San Francisco Bay, with\nTamalpais on the one hand and Monte Diablo on the other; to the\nwest and thirty miles away, the open ocean; eastward, across the\ncorn-lands and thick tule swamps of Sacramento Valley, to where\nthe Central Pacific railroad begins to climb the sides of the\nSierras; and northward, for what I know, the white head of Shasta\nlooking down on Oregon. Three counties, Napa County, Lake\nCounty, and Sonoma County, march across its cliffy\nshoulders. Its naked peak stands nearly four thousand five\nhundred feet above the sea; its sides are fringed with forest;\nand the soil, where it is bare, glows warm with cinnabar.\n\u003cb\u003e ......Buy Now (To Read More)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eProduct details\u003ch3\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEbook Number\u003c\/b\u003e: 516 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor\u003c\/b\u003e: Stevenson, Robert Louis \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eRelease Date\u003c\/b\u003e: May 1, 1996 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat\u003c\/b\u003e: eBook \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage\u003c\/b\u003e: English \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eContributors\u003ch3\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eIllustrator\u003c\/b\u003e: Strong, J. D. 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No doubt, to many, the evening\nservice is no more than a duty fulfilled. The child\nwho says his prayer at his mothers knee can have no real\nconception of the meaning of the words he lisps so readily,\nyet he goes to his little bed with a sense of heavenly\nprotection that he would miss were the prayer\nforgotten. The average Samoan is but a larger child\nin most things, and p. viwould lay an uneasy head on his\nwooden pillow if he had not joined, even\nperfunctorily, in the evening service. With\nmy husband, prayer, the direct appeal, was a\nnecessity. When he was happy he felt impelled to\noffer thanks for that undeserved joy; when in sorrow,\nor pain, to call for strength to bear what must be\nborne.\n\u003cb\u003e ......Buy Now (To Read More)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eProduct details\u003ch3\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEbook Number\u003c\/b\u003e: 616 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor\u003c\/b\u003e: Stevenson, Robert Louis \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eRelease Date\u003c\/b\u003e: Aug 1, 1996 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat\u003c\/b\u003e: eBook \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage\u003c\/b\u003e: English \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"booksdeli.com","offers":[{"title":"Stevenson, Robert Louis,1850-1894 \/ eBook \/ English","offer_id":43211153408157,"sku":"gb-616-ebook","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0619\/5648\/9373\/products\/616_1401981c-271a-483c-b742-81284b151d2e.jpg?v=1671248483"},{"product_id":"essays-of-travel-gb-627","title":"Essays of Travel","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEssays of Travel\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOur friendship was not only founded before we were born by a\ncommunity of blood, but is in itself near as old as my\nlife. It began with our early ages, and, like a history,\nhas been continued to the present time. Although we may not\nbe old in the world, we are old to each other, having so long\nbeen intimates. We are now widely separated, a great sea\nand continent intervening; but memory, like care, mounts into\niron ships and rides post behind the horseman. Neither time\nnor space nor enmity can conquer old affection; and as I dedicate\nthese sketches, it is not to you only, but to all in the old\ncountry, that I send the greeting of my heart.\nI first encountered my fellow-passengers on the Broomielaw in\nGlasgow. Thence we descended the Clyde in no familiar\nspirit, but looking askance on each other as on possible\nenemies. A few Scandinavians, who had already grown\nacquainted on the North Sea, were friendly and voluble over their\nlong pipes; but among English speakers distance and suspicion\nreigned supreme. The sun was soon overclouded, the wind\nfreshened and grew sharp as we continued to descend the widening\nestuary; and with the falling temperature the gloom among the\npassengers increased. Two of the women wept. Any one\nwho had come aboard might have supposed we were all absconding\nfrom the law. There was scarce a word interchanged, and no\ncommon sentiment but that of cold united us, until at length,\nhaving touched at Greenock, a pointing arm and a rush to the\nstarboard now announced that our ocean steamer was in\nsight. There she lay in mid-river, at the Tail of the Bank,\nher sea-signal flying: a wall of bulwark, a street of white\ndeck-houses, an aspiring forest of spars, larger than a church,\nand soon to be as populous as many an incorporated town in the\nland to which she was to bear us.\n\u003cb\u003e ......Buy Now (To Read More)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eProduct details\u003ch3\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEbook Number\u003c\/b\u003e: 627 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor\u003c\/b\u003e: Stevenson, Robert Louis \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eRelease Date\u003c\/b\u003e: Aug 1, 1996 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat\u003c\/b\u003e: eBook \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage\u003c\/b\u003e: English \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"booksdeli.com","offers":[{"title":"Stevenson, Robert Louis,1850-1894 \/ eBook \/ English","offer_id":43211154325661,"sku":"gb-627-ebook","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0619\/5648\/9373\/products\/627_fade9f04-b888-4ae4-b8ef-cfde12d9289b.jpg?v=1671248504"},{"product_id":"wild-wales-its-people-language-and-scenery-gb-648","title":"Wild Wales: Its People, Language and Scenery","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWild Wales: Its People, Language and Scenery\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis edition of Wild Wales has been carefully collated\r\nwith the first edition, in order to ensure that the spelling of\r\nproper names shall be precisely as Borrow left it, and the\r\nrunning headings on the right-hand pages as nearly as possible\r\nthose which Borrow himself wrote.\nWales is a country interesting in many respects, and deserving\r\nof more attention than it has hitherto met with. 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It is connected with the\r\nCumbric bal, a protuberance, a springing forth; with the Celtic\r\nbeul or beal, a mouth; with the old English welle, a fountain;\r\nwith the original name of Italy, still called by the Germans\r\nWelschland; with Balkan and Vulcan, both of which signify a\r\ncasting out, an eruption; with Welint or Wayland, the name of the\r\nAnglo-Saxon god of the forge; with the Chaldee val, a forest, and\r\nthe German wald; with the English bluff, and the Sanscrit\r\npalavastartling assertions, no doubt, at least to some;\r\nwhich are, however, quite true, and which at some future time\r\nwill be universally acknowledged so to be.\n\u003cb\u003e ......Buy Now (To Read More)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eProduct details\u003ch3\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEbook Number\u003c\/b\u003e: 648 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor\u003c\/b\u003e: Borrow, George \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eRelease Date\u003c\/b\u003e: Sep 1, 1996 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat\u003c\/b\u003e: eBook \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage\u003c\/b\u003e: English \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"booksdeli.com","offers":[{"title":"Borrow, George,1803-1881 \/ eBook \/ English","offer_id":43211156226205,"sku":"gb-648-ebook","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0619\/5648\/9373\/products\/648_e3b9adb1-4abf-4e68-b733-32021865cbde.jpg?v=1671248542"},{"product_id":"american-notes-gb-675","title":"American Notes","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAmerican Notes\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMy readers have opportunities of\njudging for themselves whether the influences and tendencies\nwhich I distrusted in America, had, at that time, any existence\nbut in my imagination. They can examine for themselves\nwhether there has been anything in the public career of that\ncountry since, at home or abroad, which suggests that those\ninfluences and tendencies really did exist. As they find\nthe fact, they will judge me. If they discern any evidences\nof wrong-going, in any direction that I have indicated, they will\nacknowledge that I had reason in what I wrote. If they\ndiscern no such indications, they will consider me altogether\nmistakenbut not wilfully.\nPrejudiced, I am not, and never have been, otherwise than in\nfavour of the United States. I have many friends in\nAmerica, I feel a grateful interest in the country, I hope and\nbelieve it will successfully work out a problem of the highest\nimportance to the whole human race. 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Not lovable, like the Sandwich Islands, but beautiful in its\r\nown way!  A strictly North American beautysnow-splotched mountains,\r\nhuge pines, red-woods, sugar pines, silver spruce; a crystalline\r\natmosphere, waves of the richest color; and a pine-hung lake which\r\nmirrors all beauty on its surface.  Lake Tahoe is before me, a sheet of\r\nwater twenty-two miles long by ten broad, and in some places 1,700 feet\r\ndeep.  It lies at a height of 6,000 feet, and the snow-crowned summits\r\nwhich wall it in are from 8,000 to 11,000 feet in altitude.  The air is\r\nkeen and elastic.  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In the dusty\r\norchards the apple and pear branches are supported, that they may not\r\nbreak down under the weight of fruit; melons, tomatoes, and squashes of\r\ngigantic size lie almost unheeded on the ground; fat cattle, gorged\r\nalmost to repletion, shade themselves under the oaks; superb \"red\"\r\nhorses shine, not with grooming, but with condition; and thriving farms\r\neverywhere show on what a solid basis the prosperity of the \"Golden\r\nState\" is founded.  Very uninviting, however rich, was the blazing\r\nSacramento Valley, and very repulsive the city of Sacramento, which, at\r\na distance of 125 miles from the Pacific, has an elevation of only\r\nthirty feet.  The mercury stood at 103 degrees in the shade, and the\r\nfine white dust was stifling.\r\n\n\u003cb\u003e ......Buy Now (To Read More)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eProduct details\u003ch3\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEbook Number\u003c\/b\u003e: 755 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor\u003c\/b\u003e: Bird, Isabella L. (Isabella Lucy) \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eRelease Date\u003c\/b\u003e: Dec 1, 1996 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat\u003c\/b\u003e: eBook \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage\u003c\/b\u003e: English \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"booksdeli.com","offers":[{"title":"Bird, Isabella L. 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From 1499, when they were first printed\nby Wynkyn de Worde, the Travels had enjoyed great\npopularity in England, as in the rest of Europe; but the printed\neditions before 1725 had all followed an inferior translation\n(with an unperceived gap in the middle of it), which had already\ngained the upper hand before printing was invented. Another\nmanuscript in the British Museum, belonging to the\nEgerton collection, preserves yet a third version,\nand this was printed for the first time by Mr. G. F. Warner, for\nthe Roxburghe Club, in 1889, together with the original French\ntext, and an introduction, and notes, which it would be difficult\nto over-praise. In editing the Egerton version, Mr. Warner\nmade constant reference to the Cotton manuscript, which he quoted\nin many of his critical notes. But with this exception, no\none appears to have looked at the manuscript since it was first\nprinted, and subsequent writers have been content to take the\ncorrectness of the 1725 text for granted, priding themselves,\napparently, on the care with which they reproduced all the\nsuperfluous eighteenth century capitals with which every line is\ndotted. Unluckily, the introduction of needless capitals\nwas the least of the original editors p. vicrimes, for\nhe omits words and phrases, and sometimes (a common trick with\ncareless copyists) a whole sentence or clause which happens to\nend with the same word as its predecessor. He was also a\ndeliberate as well as a careless criminal, for the paragraph\nabout the Arabic alphabet at the end of Chapter XV. being\ndifficult to reproduce, he omitted it altogether, and not only\nthis, but the last sentence of Chapter XVI. as well, because it\ncontained a reference to it.\n\u003cb\u003e ......Buy Now (To Read More)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eProduct details\u003ch3\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEbook Number\u003c\/b\u003e: 782 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor\u003c\/b\u003e: Mandeville, John \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eRelease Date\u003c\/b\u003e: Jan 1, 1997 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat\u003c\/b\u003e: eBook \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage\u003c\/b\u003e: English \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublication Date\u003c\/b\u003e: 1900 \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"booksdeli.com","offers":[{"title":"Mandeville, John \/ eBook \/ English","offer_id":43211175592093,"sku":"gb-782-ebook","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0619\/5648\/9373\/products\/782_093282d4-b09d-4a00-9630-3cc9aec11eb4.jpg?v=1671248797"},{"product_id":"the-oregon-trail-sketches-of-prairie-and-rocky-mountain-life-gb-1015","title":"The Oregon Trail: Sketches of Prairie and Rocky-Mountain Life","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Oregon Trail: Sketches of Prairie and Rocky-Mountain Life\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\n  CHAPTER I -- THE FRONTIER   CHAPTER II -- BREAKING THE ICE  \r\n        CHAPTER III -- FORT LEAVENWORTH   CHAPTER IV -- JUMPING OFF \n CHAPTER V -- THE BIG BLUE  \r\n        CHAPTER VI -- THE PLATTE AND THE DESERT   CHAPTER VII -- THE BUFFALO \n CHAPTER VIII -- TAKING FRENCH LEAVE   CHAPTER IX -- SCENES AT FORT LARAMIE  \r\n        CHAPTER X -- THE WAR PARTIES   CHAPTER XI -- SCENES AT THE CAMP \n CHAPTER XII -- ILL LUCK   CHAPTER XIII -- HUNTING INDIANS  \r\n        CHAPTER XIV -- THE OGALLALLA VILLAGE   CHAPTER XV -- THE HUNTING CAMP \n CHAPTER XVI -- THE TRAPPERS   CHAPTER XVII -- THE BLACK HILLS \r\n        CHAPTER XVIII -- A MOUNTAIN HUNT   CHAPTER XIX -- PASSAGE OF THE MOUNTAINS \n CHAPTER XX -- THE LONELY JOURNEY   CHAPTER XXI -- THE PUEBLO AND BENTS FORT  \r\n        CHAPTER XXII -- TETE ROUGE, THE VOLUNTEER   CHAPTER XXIII -- INDIAN ALARMS \n CHAPTER XXIV -- THE CHASE  CHAPTER XXV -- THE BUFFALO CAMP  \r\n        CHAPTER XXVI DOWN THE ARKANSAS   CHAPTER XXVII -- THE SETTLEMENTS \r\n      \n\u003cb\u003e ......Buy Now (To Read More)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eProduct details\u003ch3\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEbook Number\u003c\/b\u003e: 1015 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor\u003c\/b\u003e: Parkman, Francis \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eRelease Date\u003c\/b\u003e: Apr 27, 2006 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat\u003c\/b\u003e: eBook \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage\u003c\/b\u003e: English \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"booksdeli.com","offers":[{"title":"Parkman, Francis,1823-1893 \/ eBook \/ English","offer_id":43211217305757,"sku":"gb-1015-ebook","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0619\/5648\/9373\/products\/1015_d2137ec1-2f31-4e5b-9033-28fe11ff3353.jpg?v=1671249273"},{"product_id":"the-mirror-of-the-sea-gb-1058","title":"The Mirror of the Sea","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Mirror of the Sea\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA Departure is not what a vain people of\nlandsmen may think. The term Landfall is more\neasily understood; you fall in with the land, and it is a matter\nof a quick eye and of a clear atmosphere. The Departure is\nnot the ships going away from her port any more than the\nLandfall can be looked upon as the synonym of arrival. But\nthere is this difference in the Departure: that the term does not\nimply so much a sea event as a definite act entailing a\nprocessthe precise observation of certain landmarks by\nmeans of the compass card.\nYour Landfall, be it a peculiarly-shaped mountain, a rocky\nheadland, or a stretch of sand-dunes, you meet at first with a\nsingle glance. Further recognition will follow in due\ncourse; but essentially a Landfall, good or bad, is made and done\nwith at the first cry of Land ho! The\nDeparture is distinctly a ceremony of navigation. A ship\nmay have left her port some time before; she may have been at\nsea, in the fullest sense of the phrase, for days; but, for all\nthat, as long as the coast she was about to leave remained in\nsight, a southern-going ship of yesterday had not in the\nsailors sense begun the enterprise of a passage.\n\u003cb\u003e ......Buy Now (To Read More)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eProduct details\u003ch3\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEbook Number\u003c\/b\u003e: 1058 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor\u003c\/b\u003e: Conrad, Joseph \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eRelease Date\u003c\/b\u003e: Oct 1, 1997 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat\u003c\/b\u003e: eBook \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage\u003c\/b\u003e: English \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"booksdeli.com","offers":[{"title":"Conrad, Joseph,1857-1924 \/ eBook \/ English","offer_id":43212100632733,"sku":"gb-1058-ebook","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0619\/5648\/9373\/products\/1058_16deec8a-693c-4190-aa8e-eacc156ca53b.jpg?v=1671250020"},{"product_id":"voyage-of-the-paper-canoe-gb-1082","title":"Voyage of the Paper Canoe","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eVoyage of the Paper Canoe\r - A Geographical Journey of 2500 Miles, from Quebec to the Gulf of Mexico, During the Years 1874-5\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe author left Quebec, Dominion of Canada,\nJuly 4, 1874, with a single assistant, in a wooden\ncanoe eighteen feet in length, bound for the Gulf of\nMexico. 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The\nauthor can only add to this expression an extract\nfrom his reply to the address of the Mayor of St.\nMary's, Georgia, which city honored him with an\novation and presentation of flags after the\ncompletion of his voyage:\n\u003cb\u003e ......Buy Now (To Read More)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eProduct details\u003ch3\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEbook Number\u003c\/b\u003e: 1082 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor\u003c\/b\u003e: Bishop, Nathaniel H. (Nathaniel Holmes) \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eRelease Date\u003c\/b\u003e: Oct 1, 1997 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat\u003c\/b\u003e: eBook \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage\u003c\/b\u003e: English \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"booksdeli.com","offers":[{"title":"Bishop, Nathaniel H. 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But I wish it to be understood that\r\nit was not my selected task to do so, and is not now my primary\r\nobject.\n\u003cb\u003e ......Buy Now (To Read More)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eProduct details\u003ch3\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEbook Number\u003c\/b\u003e: 1865 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor\u003c\/b\u003e: Trollope, Anthony \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eRelease Date\u003c\/b\u003e: Aug 1, 1999 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat\u003c\/b\u003e: eBook \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage\u003c\/b\u003e: English \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"booksdeli.com","offers":[{"title":"Trollope, Anthony,1815-1882 \/ eBook \/ English","offer_id":43212198051997,"sku":"gb-1865-ebook","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0619\/5648\/9373\/products\/1865_26943cd2-92a8-41e8-a7af-08f20398ae91.jpg?v=1671251841"},{"product_id":"north-america-volume-2-gb-1866","title":"North America — Volume 2","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNorth America — Volume 2\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe site of the present city of Washington was chosen with three\r\nspecial views; firstly, that being on the Potomac it might have the\r\nfull advantage of water-carriage and a sea-port; secondly, that it\r\nmight be so far removed from the seaboard as to be safe from\r\ninvasion; and, thirdly, that it might be central alike to all the\r\nStates. 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The former was accepted: but a furious storm which ensued\n      caused them to change their minds. They recognized in it the hand of God,\n      whose will it evidently was that they should no longer be sojourners in\n      the American wilderness; and the first English settlement of 'Virginia'\n      was abandoned accordingly.\n    \n\n      Ten years afterwards (1595) Drake was again at the head of a similar\n      expedition. The second command was given to his old associate Hawkins,\n      Frobisher, his Vice-Admiral in 1585, having recently died of the wound\n      received at Crozon. This time Nombre de Dios was taken and burnt, and 750\n      soldiers set out under Sir Thomas Baskerville to march to Panama: but at\n      the first of the three forts which the Spaniards had by this time\n      constructed, the march had to be abandoned. Drake did not long survive\n      this second failure of his favourite scheme. He was attacked by dysentery\n      a fortnight afterwards, and in a month he died. When he felt the hand of\n      death upon him, he rose, dressed himself, and endeavoured to make a\n      farewell speech to those around him. Exhausted by the effort, he was\n      lifted to his berth, and within an hour breathed his last. 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