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Venetian Life In correcting this book for a second edition, I have sought to complete it without altering its original plan: I have given a new chapter sketching the history of Venetian Commerce and noticing the present trade and industry of Venice; I have...

Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 2The valleys of Aragua form a narrow basin between granitic and calcareous mountains of unequal height. On the north, they are separated by the Sierra Mariara from the...

The Arctic Prairies : a Canoe-Journey of 2,000 Miles in Search of the Caribou; - Being the Account of a Voyage to the Region North of Aylemer LakeWhat young man of our race would not gladly give a year of his life to roll...

The South Pole; an account of the Norwegian Antarctic expedition in the "Fram," 1910-12 — Volume 1 and Volume 2 ......Buy Now (To Read More)Product details Ebook Number: 6540 Author: Amundsen, Roald Release Date: Sep 1, 2004 Format: eBook Language: English

Letters from America The author started in May 1913 on a journey to the United States, Canada, and the South Seas, from which he returned next year at the beginning of June. The first thirteen chapters of this book were written as letters to...

Two Years in the French West Indies During a trip to the Lesser Antilles in the summer of 1887, the writer of the following pages, landing at Martinique, fell under the influence of that singular spell which the island has always exercised upon strangers,...

Italian Hours The chapters of which this volume is composed have with few exceptions already been collected, and were then associated with others commemorative of other impressions of (no very extensive) excursions and wanderings. The notes on various visits to Italy are here for...

The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides with Samuel Johnson, LL.D.In every narrative, whether historical or biographical, authenticity is of the utmost consequence. Of this I have ever been so firmly persuaded, that I inscribed a former work to that person who was...

Travels in West Africa: Congo Français, Corisco and CameroonsRelateth the various causes which impelled the author to embark upon the voyage. It was in 1893 that, for the first time in my life, I found myself in possession of five or six months which...

Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World. Part 7 Methods in American Deaf and Dumb AsylumsMethods in the Public SchoolsA Letter from a youth in PunjabHighly Educated ServiceA Damage to the CountryA Little Book from CalcuttaWriting Poor EnglishEmbarrassed by a Beggar GirlA Specimen...

Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World. Part 6 Benares a Religious TempleA Guide for Pilgrims to Save Time in Securing Salvation CHAPTER LII. A Curious Way to Secure SalvationThe Banks of the GangesArchitecture Represents PietyA Trip on the RiverBathers and their CostumesDrinking...

Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World. Part 5 God Vishnu, 108 NamesChange of Titles or Hunting for an HeirBombay as a KaleidoscopeThe Native's Man ServantServants' RecommendationsHow Manuel got his Name and his EnglishSatanA Visit from God CHAPTER XL. The Government House at...

Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World. Part 3 A Caller--A Talk about Old Times--The Fox Hunt--An Accurate Judgment of an Idiot--How We Passed the Custom Officers in Italy CHAPTER XXI. The "Weet-Weet"--Keeping down the Population--Victoria--Killing the Aboriginals--Pioneer Days in Queensland--Material for a...

Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World. Part 2 Close to AustraliaPorpoises at NightEntrance to Sydney HarborThe Loss of the Duncan DunbarThe HarborThe City of SydneySpring-time in AustraliaThe ClimateInformation for TravelersThe Size of AustraliaA Dust-Storm and Hot Wind CHAPTER X. The Discovery of...

Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World. Part 1 The PartyAcross America to VancouverOn Board the WarrimoSteamer Chairs-The Captain-Going Home under a CloudA Gritty PurserThe Brightest PassengerRemedy for Bad HabitsThe Doctor and the LumbagoA Moral PauperLimited SmokingRemittance-men. CHAPTER II. Change of CostumeFish, Snake,...

The Ne'er-Do-WellIt was a crisp November night. The artificial brilliance of Broadway was rivalled by a glorious moonlit sky. The first autumn frost was in the air, and on the side-streets long rows of taxicabs were standing, their motors blanketed, their chauffeurs threshing their...

South: The Story of Shackleton's Last Expedition, 1914-1917 After the conquest of the South Pole by Amundsen, who, by a narrow margin of days only, was in advance of the British Expedition under Scott, there remained but one great main object of Antarctic journeyingsthe...

Around the World on a Bicycle - Volume I - From San Francisco to TeheranScanner's Notes: This was scanned from an original edition, copyright 1887, 547 pages. It is as close as I could come in ASCII to the printed text. Scanning time: 15...

Narrative of the Overland Expedition of the Messrs. Jardine from Rockhampton to Cape York, Northern QueenslandPORT ALBANY. Somerset, March 1st, 1865. Sir,My former reports to you having been, to a certain extent, necessarily taken up with matters of detail in reference to the formation...

The Aran Islands The geography of the Aran Islands is very simple, yet it may need a word to itself. There are three islands: Aranmor, the north island, about nine miles long; Inishmaan, the middle island, about three miles and a half across, and...