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Travels in the Interior of Africa — Volume 02Travels in the Interior of Africa — Volume 02The first of the two volumes which contain Mungo Parks Travels in the Interior of Africa brought him through many perils to the first sight of the Niger, and left him sick and solitary, stripped of...
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Travels in the Interior of Africa — Volume 01Travels in the Interior of Africa — Volume 01Mungo Park was born on the 10th of September, 1771, the son of a farmer at Fowlshiels, near Selkirk. After studying medicine in Edinburgh, he went out, at the age of twenty-one, assistant-surgeon in a ship...
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The Voyage of VerrazzanoThe Voyage of Verrazzano - A Chapter in the Early History of Maritime Discovery in AmericaThe following pages, intended to show the claim of discovery in America by Verrazzano to be without any real foundation, belong to a work, in hand, upon the earliest...
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The Long VacationThe Long Vacation If a book by an author who must call herself a veteran should be taken up by readers of a younger generation, they are begged to consider the first few chapters as a sort of prologue, introduced for the sake of...
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Travels in England in 1782Travels in England in 1782Charles P. Moritzs Travels, chiefly on foot, through several parts of England in 1782, described in Letters to a Friend, were translated from the German by a lady, and published in 1795. John Pinkerton included them in the second volume...
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Sejanus: His FallSejanus: His Fall The greatest of English dramatists except Shakespeare, the first literary dictator and poet-laureate, a writer of verse, prose, satire, and criticism who most potently of all the men of his time affected the subsequent course of English letters: such was Ben...
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The Famous Missions of CaliforniaThe Famous Missions of California On the 1st of July, 1769a day forever memorable in the annals of Californiaa small party of men, worn out by the fatigues and hardships of their long and perilous journey from San Fernandez de Villicat, came in sight...
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Speeches of the Hon. Jefferson Davis, of Mississippi delivered during the summer of 1858Speeches of the Hon. Jefferson Davis, of Mississippi; delivered during the summer of 1858. On Fourth of July, 1858, at Sea. At Serenade, at Portland, Maine. At Portland Convention, Maine. At Belfast Encampment, Maine. At Belfast Banquet, Maine. At Portland Meeting, Maine. At Fair...
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The Guns of Shiloh: A Story of the Great Western CampaignThe Guns of Shiloh: A Story of the Great Western Campaign The Guns of Shiloh, a complete story in itself, is the complement of The Guns of Bull Run. In The Guns of Bull Run the Civil War and its beginnings are seen through...
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Pearl-Maiden: A Tale of the Fall of JerusalemPearl-Maiden: A Tale of the Fall of Jerusalem It was but two hours after midnight, yet many were wakeful in Csarea on the Syrian coast. Herod Agrippa, King of all Palestineby grace of the Romansnow at the very apex of his power, celebrated a...
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Aladdin O'BrienAladdin O'Brien It was on the way home from Sunday-school that Aladdin had enticed Margaret to the forbidden river. She was not sure that he knew how to row, for he was prone to exaggerate his prowess at this and that, and she went...
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The PoetasterThe Poetaster THE greatest of English dramatists except Shakespeare, the first literary dictator and poet-laureate, a writer of verse, prose, satire, and criticism who most potently of all the men of his time affected the subsequent course of English letters: such was Ben Jonson,...
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The TreasureThe TreasureI. At Solberga Parsonage II. On the Quays III. The Messenger IV. In the Moonlight V. Haunted VI. In the Town Cellars VII. Unrest VIII. Sir Archie's Flight IX. Over the Ice X. The Roar of the Waves In the days when King...
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How I Found LivingstoneHow I Found Livingstone - Travels, adventures, and discoveres in Central Africa, including an account of four months' residence with Dr. Livingstone, by Henry M. Stanley On the sixteenth day of October, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-nine,...
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Chronicles of Canada series: Volume 07The Fighting Governor : A Chronicle of FrontenacThe Canada to which Frontenac came in 1672 was no longer the infant colony it had been when Richelieu founded the Company of One Hundred Associates. Through the efforts of Louis XIV and Colbert it had assumed...
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The Fortune of the RougonsThe Fortune of the Rougons I wish to explain how a family, a small group of human beings, conducts itself in a given social system after blossoming forth and giving birth to ten or twenty members, who, though they may appear, at the first...
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Quotations from John L. Motley WorksQuotations from John L. Motley WorksReaders acquainted with the works of John L. Motley may wish to see if their favorite passages are listed in this selection. The eBook editor will be glad to add your suggestions. One of the advantages of internet over...
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Letters to Sir William Windham and Mr. PopeLetters to Sir William Windham and Mr. PopeHenry St. John, who became Viscount Bolingbroke in 1712, was born on the 1st of October, 1678, at the family manor of Battersea, then a country village. His grandfather, Sir Walter St. John, lived there with his...
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The Young Carthaginian: A Story of The Times of HannibalThe Young Carthaginian: A Story of The Times of Hannibal MY DEAR LADS, When I was a boy at school, if I remember rightly, our sympathies were generally with the Carthaginians as against the Romans. Why they were so, except that one generally sympathizes...
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The Prodigal JudgeThe Prodigal Judge CHAPTER I. THE BOY AT THE BARONY CHAPTER II. YANCY TELLS A MORAL TALE CHAPTER III. TROUBLE AT SCRATCH HILL CHAPTER IV. LAW AT BALAAM'S CROSS-ROADS CHAPTER V. THE ENCOUNTER CHAPTER VI. BETTY SETS OUT FOR TENNESSEE CHAPTER VII. THE FIGHT...
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