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On Yachts and Yacht HandlingOn Yachts and Yacht Handling"Books were made that man might pass his knowledge to his fellows; through them he speaks to a vast audience, and his power to enlighten is only circumscribed by the ability to impart this knowledge in lucid and interesting language."...
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The Book of Camp-Lore and WoodcraftThe Book of Camp-Lore and WoodcraftBoys, if this foreword is too "highbrow" for your taste, skip it, but the author don't believe you will, and even if he has used some dictionary words he feels that you will forgive him after he tells you...
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Mesdames Nos Aïeules: dix siècles d'élégancesMesdames Nos Aïeules: dix siècles d'élégancesIl n'y a de nouveau dans ce monde que ce qui a suffisamment vieilli, a dit, non pas un 6 grand philosophe mais une femme, la couturire de Josphine de Beauharnais, pouse de Napolon Bonaparte, consul de la Rpublique...
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Nautical ChartsNautical ChartsIn preparing the material for a lecture on Charts for Columbia University, the writer was impressed with the fact that although nautical charts are mentioned or discussed in many publications, there was not found any one which covered the general subject of their...
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Elements of Folk PsychologyElements of Folk Psychology - Outline of a Psychological History of the Development of MankindThe keen interest which the present age is manifesting in problems connected with the interpretation of human experience is no less a result than it is a precondition of the...
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The Origin of the Werewolf SuperstitionThe Origin of the Werewolf SuperstitionThe belief that a human being is capable of assuming an animals form, most frequently that of a wolf, is an almost worldwide superstition. Such a transformed person is the Germanic werewolf, or man-wolf; that is, a wolf which...
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Visions and Beliefs in the West of Ireland, Second SeriesVisions and Beliefs in the West of Ireland, Second Series"There's no doubt at all but that there's the same sort of things in other countries; but you hear more about them in these parts because the Irish do be more familiar in talking of...
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Visions and Beliefs in the West of Ireland, First SeriesVisions and Beliefs in the West of Ireland, First SeriesThe Sidhe cannot make themselves visible to all. They are shape-changers; they can grow small or grow large, they can take what shape they choose; they appear as men or women wearing clothes of many...
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The Arctic Whaleman or, Winter in the Arctic OceanThe Arctic Whaleman; or, Winter in the Arctic OceanA father once said to his son, respecting books, "Read first the introduction; if that be good, try a few pages of the volume; if they are excellent, then, but not else, read on." But I...
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The Story of the Hills: A Book About Mountains for General ReadersThe Story of the Hills: A Book About Mountains for General Readers.Now that travelling is no longer a luxury for the rich, and thousands of people go every summer to spend their holidays among the mountains of Europe, and ladies climb Mont Blanc or...
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Men of the Old Stone Age: Their Environment, Life and ArtMen of the Old Stone Age: Their Environment, Life and ArtThe anticipation of nature by Lucretius[B] in his philosophical poem, De Rerum Natura, accords in a broad and remarkable way with our present knowledge of the prehistory of man: This is a picture of...
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Ancient Man in BritainAncient Man in BritainThis volume deals with the history of man in Britain from the Ice Age till the Roman period. The evidence is gleaned from the various sciences which are usually studied apart, including geology, archology, philology, ethnology or anthropology, &c., and the...
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With the World's Great Travellers, Volume 4With the World's Great Travellers, Volume 4Paris, pleasure capital of the world, the ideal cosmopolitan city, a thousand different delights for a thousand different tastes, is as fascinating to the scholar and bookworm as to the tourist and the belle of fashion. The weary...
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The Great Frozen Sea: A Personal Narrative of the Voyage of the "Alert"The Great Frozen Sea: A Personal Narrative of the Voyage of the "Alert"The History of the Arctic Expedition of 1875-76, and the record of its results, will be found in the work of Sir George Nares. My object in publishing the present volume is...
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Népmesék Heves- és Jász-Nagykun-Szolnok-megyéből Magyar népköltési gyüjtemény 9. kötetNépmesék Heves- és Jász-Nagykun-Szolnok-megyéből; Magyar népköltési gyüjtemény 9. kötetE ktet nmileg eltr a Magyar Npkltsi Gyjtemny szokott formjtl. Hinyzanak belle a npdalok, balladk s a npi szellem egyb verses megnyilatkozsai, az egszet npmesk tltik meg. Ezt a vltoztatst a rendelkezsre llott anyag mivolta tette...
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House and Garden Making BooksMaking a Tennis Court Although the game of lawn tennis as played to-day dates back only some forty to forty-five years, it is in reality one of the oldest of all existing ball games. The origin of the game is involved in considerable obscurity,...
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The Ethnology of EuropeThe Ethnology of Europe1. The physical conditions of Europe are as remarkable in respect to their negative as their positive characters; in other words, there is a great number of points wherein Europe differs from Asia, Africa, America, and Polynesia, in respect to what...
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Cruise of the 'Alert'Cruise of the 'Alert' - Four Years in Patagonian, Polynesian, and Mascarene Waters (1878-82)In the summer of 1878 it was decided by the Lords of the Admiralty to equip a vessel for the threefold purpose of continuing the survey of the Straits of Magellan,...
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Csongrádmegyei gyüjtés Magyar népköltési gyüjtemény 2. kötetCsongrádmegyei gyüjtés; Magyar népköltési gyüjtemény 2. kötetTermszetes, hogy az itt kzlt dalok s mesk nemcsak Csongrdmegyben, hanem msutt is honosak, kivlt az alfldn. Valban e gyjtemny nagy rszt alfldi zamatu s ez egy okkal tbb volt arra, hogy nll ktetnek maradjon. Vajha mg ms...
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The Motor Routes of England: Western SectionThe Motor Routes of England: Western SectionThere have been many inquiries for this new volume of the 'Motor Routes of England,' which I should have been glad to publish a year ago had the necessary time been at my disposal. Finding that there was...
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