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Highways and Byways in the BorderHighways and Byways in the Border - Illustrated At the time of his death, my brother had proceeded but a little way in this task which he and I began together, and I must frankly own my inability to cope with it on the...
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Peking-Paris im AutomobilPeking-Paris im Automobil - Eine Wettfahrt durch Asien und Europa in sechzig Tagen.Es hat sich also doch jemand gefunden, der nach allem trotz unserer zweimonatigen Anstrengungen, trotz der Felsen, Flsse, Wsten und Wlder, Smpfe und Bankette, die wir hinter uns haben der nach alledem...
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Bygone LondonBygone LondonNotwithstanding the multitude of books that have been written relating to its history and antiquities, the History of London still remains to be written, a work that cannot, from its ocean-like infinitude of matter, be accomplished by a single hand, but will require...
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Recollections with the Third Iowa RegimentRecollections with the Third Iowa RegimentAt the solicitation of some of my comrades, the pages of this book were for the most part compiled from a diary which I kept during most of the two years I served with them, and which was written...
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Brief Lives, Vol. 2Brief Lives, Vol. 2[A]Mr. Ingelbert was the first inventer or projector of bringing the water from Ware to London[1] called Middleton's water. He was a poore-man, but Sir Hugh Middleton[2], alderman of London, moneyed the businesse; undertooke it; and gott the profit and also...
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The Rock of the LionThe Rock of the LionThe Rock of the Lion is not a history of the siege of Gibraltar, although the story of that immortal siege of 1779-83 has been closely studied and followed in preparing this book for young readers. The writer has used...
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Brief Lives, Vol. 1Brief Lives, Vol. 1Aubrey sought and obtained an introduction to Anthony Wood in August 1667. He was keenly interested in antiquarian studies, and had the warmest love for Oxford; he had been a contemporary in Trinity College with Wood's brother, Edward; and so was...
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The Friar's Daughter: A Story of the American Occupation of the PhilippinesThe Friar's Daughter: A Story of the American Occupation of the PhilippinesThis is a story founded on truth. Practically every incident told about really happened; yet some liberty has been taken with the arrangements of these incidents into a story. Events are sometimes grouped...
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The Story of the CrusadesThe Story of the Crusades First published December 1910 by GEORGE G. HARRAP & CO. 39-4l Parker Street, Kingsway, London, W.C.2 Reprinted September 1913 Reprinted in the present series: March 1912; May 1914; January 1919; March 1924; January 1927; November 1927; July 1930 I....
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Battle of the Crater and Experiences of Prison LifeBattle of the Crater; and Experiences of Prison LifeI have been asked by the Society under whose auspices we are gathered to-night to tell you something of my personal experiences in the Battle of the Mine, or of the Crater, as it is sometimes...
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Saragossa: A Story of Spanish ValorSaragossa: A Story of Spanish Valor"Saragossa" is the sixth volume in the brilliant series of historical novels by B. Prez Galds, which begins with "Trafalgar" and closes with "The Battle of the Arapiles," embracing "The Court of Carlos IV," "Gerona," and "Napoleon in Chamartin."...
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The Cornish Coast (South), and the Isles of ScillyThe Cornish Coast (South), and the Isles of ScillyThe southern portion of the Cornish Coast may be said to begin at the head of the navigation of the river Tamar, at Weir Head, to which the excursion steamers from Plymouth can come at favourable...
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The Dates of Variously-shaped Shields, with Coincident Dates and ExamplesThe Dates of Variously-shaped Shields, with Coincident Dates and ExamplesIn venturing to place before the public this little workwhich takes up a line of enquiry never before attempted,I would solicit criticism, not of that slashing condemnatory kind which destroys a statement without pointing out...
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A History of England, Period III. Constitutional MonarchyA History of England, Period III. Constitutional MonarchyMacaulay's History of England, 1600-1702. Macaulay's Essays. Mahon's History of England, 1713-1783. Massey's History of England, 1745-1802. Martineau's History of the Peace, 1800-1848. Erskine May's Constitutional History, 1760-1860. Ralph's History of England, 1689-1727. Pauli's Geschichte Englands, from...
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Voyage en automobile dans la Hongrie pittoresqueVoyage en automobile dans la Hongrie pittoresque - Fatra - Tatra - MatraMon cher ami, J'ai gard un si aimable souvenir de notre course travers l'Autriche et la Hongrie que ce m'est un grand plaisir de vous crire, en manire de prface, ces quelques...
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A History of EnglandA History of England - Eleventh EditionThe fact that this book has passed through nine editions in seven years seems to show that it was not altogether written in vain, and has answered the purpose for which it was written. The first edition carried...
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WanderlustWanderlustWell I remember my first escapade, and as I sit here to-night writing these memoirs, most vividly do I recall some thrilling experiences which occurred in the pine fields and on the sand hills of Florida. I was then about fourteen years old and...
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Campfire and BattlefieldCampfire and Battlefield - An Illustrated History of the Campaigns and Conflicts of the Great Civil WarOn the 9th of January, 1861, the Star of the West, a vessel which the United States Government had sent to convey supplies to Fort Sumter, was fired...
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From the Australian FrontFrom the Australian FrontAt Christmas, two years ago, as a result of the hard work of its Editors and other members of the A.I.F., we were presented with an excellent production in the form of the "Anzac Book." That was our second Christmas at...
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Captain Ravenshaw Or, The Maid of Cheapside. A Romance of Elizabethan LondonCaptain Ravenshaw; Or, The Maid of Cheapside. A Romance of Elizabethan LondonHere is offered mere story, the sort of thing Mr. Howells cannot tolerate. He will have none of us and our works, poor "neo-romanticists" that we are. Curiously enough, we neo-romanticists, or most...
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