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A Voyage in the 'Sunbeam', Our Home on the Ocean for Eleven MonthsA Voyage in the 'Sunbeam', Our Home on the Ocean for Eleven MonthsThis volume needs no elaborate preface. A general sketch of the voyage which it describes was published in the 'Times' immediately after our return to England. That letter is reprinted here as...
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La nuit de Noël dans tous les paysLa nuit de Noël dans tous les paysNous avons dj publi, en 1905 et en 1906, deux brochures sur les coutumes populaires de Nol dans tous les pays: Nol dans les pays trangers et Les Crches de Nol. Cette troisime publication La Nuit de...
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Noël dans les pays étrangersNoël dans les pays étrangers[Note du transcripteur: Tout le matriel hors propos de l'dition qui a servi la production de ce document est report la fin du document pour ceux que ce matriel pourrait intresser.] Les ftes de Nol, dans les pays du Nord,...
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The Art of Travel Or, Shifts and Contrivances Available in Wild CountriesThe Art of Travel; Or, Shifts and Contrivances Available in Wild Countries Preface Preparatory Enquiries Organising an Expedition Outfit Medicine Surveying Instruments Memoranda and Log-Books Measurements Climbing and Mountaineering Cattle Harness Carriages Swimming Rafts and Boats Fords and Bridges Clothing Bedding Bivouac Huts Sleeping-Bags...
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Big People and Little People of Other LandsBig People and Little People of Other Lands It has been thoroughly proved in our newer pedagogical practice that the child in the first school year is much interested in descriptions of the Indian and the Eskimo. Whenever descriptions of the Indian and the...
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A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 15A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 15 - Forming A Complete History Of The Origin And Progress Of Navigation, Discovery, And Commerce, By Sea And Land, From The Earliest Ages To The Present TimeThe spirit of discovery, which had...
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The Forest of VazonThe Forest of Vazon - A Guernsey Legend of the Eighth CenturyNothing authentic is known of the history of Guernsey previously to its annexation to the Duchy of Normandy in the tenth century. The only sources of information as to events which may have...
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A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 13A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 13can be prevailed on to swear rebellion against it "For," says Dr Heberden, "this seems to be the favourite disease of the present age in England; wished for by those who have it...
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A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 12A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 12 - Arranged in Systematic Order: Forming a Complete History of the SECTION IV. The Passage from the Strait of Magellan, to King George the Third's Island, called Otaheite, in the South Sea,...
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The Worst Journey in the World: Antarctic, 1910-1913The Worst Journey in the World: Antarctic, 1910-1913Polar exploration is at once the cleanest and most isolated way of having a bad time which has been devised. It is the only form of adventure in which you put on your clothes at Michaelmas and...
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Three Voyages for the Discovery of a Northwest Passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific, and Narrative of an Attempt to Reach the North Pole, Volume 2Three Voyages for the Discovery of a Northwest Passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific, and Narrative of an Attempt to Reach the North Pole, Volume 2Notwithstanding the want of success of the late expedition to the Polar Seas, it was resolved to make...
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The Story of Geographical Discovery: How the World Became KnownThe Story of Geographical Discovery: How the World Became Known How was the world discovered? That is to say, how did a certain set of men who lived round the Mediterranean Sea, and had acquired the art of recording what each generation had learned,...
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Aan de ZuidpoolAan de Zuidpool - De Aarde en haar Volken, 1913Van Noorwegen naar de Groote Barrire. Mijn programma.De toebereidselen aan boord van de Fram.Proeftochten.Zielkundige waarnemingen over de honden.Oponthoud op Madera.Ik onthul mijn metgezellen de bestemming van het schip.De streek van de westenwinden.Naar Kerguelen.Het Antarctisch ijs.Kerstmis...
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There is No Harm in DancingThere is No Harm in DancingMajor W.C. Penn, the author of the following treatise on the modern dance, has requested the writer to pen a few thoughts introductory to a theme he has presented with such pith and power to listening thousands in his...
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Über das Aussterben der NaturvölkerÜber das Aussterben der NaturvölkerDie Frage nach dem Aussterben der Naturvlker ist bis jetzt nur gelegentlich und nicht mit der Ausfhrlichkeit behandelt, welche die Wichtigkeit der Sache wohl verlangen kann. Am genauesten ist Waitz auf sie eingegangen in seiner Anthropologie der Naturvlker Bd. 1,...
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Ice-Caves of France and SwitzerlandIce-Caves of France and SwitzerlandThe existence of natural ice-caves at depths varying from 50 to 200 feet below the surface of the earth, unconnected with glaciers or snow mountains, and in latitudes and at altitudes where ice could not under ordinary circumstances be supposed...
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Around the World on a Bicycle - Volume IIAround the World on a Bicycle - Volume II - From Teheran To YokohamaThe season of 1885-86 has been an exceptionally mild winter in the Persian capital. Up to Christmas the weather was clear and bracing, sufficiently cool to be comfortable in the daytime,...
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A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels - Volume 18A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels - Volume 18 - Historical Sketch of the Progress of Discovery, Navigation, and The curiosity of that man must be very feeble and sluggish, and his appetite for information very weak or depraved, who, when...
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The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries of The English Nation — Volume 12The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries of The English Nation — Volume 12 - America, Part IThe printed edition from which this e-text has been produced retains the spelling and abbreviations of Hakluyt's 16th-century original. In this version, the spelling has been retained,...
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The Journey to the Polar SeaThe Journey to the Polar SeaIn days of hurried action I have been astonished at the depth of interest which a re-perusal of this wonderful old narrative has held for me. Wonderful it is in its simplicity and its revelation of the simplicity of...
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