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The Life Of George Washington, Vol. 1 (Extended Annotated Edition) by Washington Irving
epub |eng | 2014-01-08 | Author:Washington Irving [Irving, Washington]

FOUNDING OF FORT LOUDOUN—WASHINGTON'S TOUR OF INSPECTION—INEFFICIENCY OF THE MILITIA SYSTEM—GENTLEMEN SOLDIERS—CROSS-PURPOSES WITH DINWIDDIE— MILITARY AFFAIRS IN THE NORTH—DELAYS OF LORD LOUDOUN—ACTIVITY OF MONTCALM—LOUDOUN IN WINTER QUARTERS. Throughout the summer ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents March 12,2020 )
Wilfred Thesiger: The Life of the Great Explorer by Alexander Maitland
epub |eng | 2011-12-01 | Author:Alexander Maitland [MAITLAND, ALEXANDER]

Although Thesiger got on well with the Crown Prince, he found Asfa Wossen’s evasiveness, endless procrastination and refusal to discuss serious issues both hampering and irksome. ‘That year at Dessie,’ ...
( Category: Travelers & Explorers March 12,2020 )
Travels through the interior parts of America by Thomas Anburey
epub |eng | 2017-11-08 | Author:Thomas Anburey [Anburey, Thomas]

LETTER XLVII Cambridge, in New England, Nov. 30th 1777 My dear friend, THE last town we left, before our arrival at this place, was Westown, where we found the most ...
( Category: Americas March 12,2020 )
Society, Manners and Politics in the United States by Michel Chevalier
epub |eng | 2018-03-07 | Author:Michel Chevalier [Chevalier, Michel]

Sect. III.: Lines of Communication along the Atlantic. First Line. Inland Channels by the Sounds and Bays along the Atlantic. Upon examining the coast of the United States from Boston ...
( Category: Economic History March 12,2020 )
The Stones of Venice I by John Ruskin
epub |eng | 2016-07-31 | Author:John Ruskin [Ruskin, John]

ABSTRACT LINES. h is a line about four feet long, a branch of spruce fir. I have taken this tree because it is commonly supposed to be stiff and ungraceful; ...
( Category: Architecture March 12,2020 )
The Motion of the Ocean by Janna Cawrse Esarey
epub |eng | 2009-07-15 | Author:Janna Cawrse Esarey

In response to the gendarme’s booting, we’re back to boating, and I’ve got one more night to survive till we can officially call off this crossing. Only the weather is ...
( Category: Sailing March 12,2020 )
Buccaneers and Pirates of Our Coasts by Frank R. Stockton
epub |eng | 2012-06-12 | Author:Frank R. Stockton

Chapter XX The Story of a High-Minded Pirate After having considered the extraordinary performances of so many of those execrable wretches, the buccaneers, it is refreshing and satisfactory to find ...
( Category: Travelers & Explorers March 12,2020 )
The Medici Balls: Seven little journeys in Tuscany by M. Moyca Newell
epub |eng | 2016-09-06 | Author:M. Moyca Newell [Newell, M. Moyca]

Alinari Giorgione MADONNA AND CHILD, WITH TWO SAINTS PAROCHIAL CHURCH. CASTELFRANCO Hanfstaengl Botticelli PORTRAIT OF A YOUNG FLORENTINE ROYAL GALLERY, BERLIN It is impossible to compare Castruccio exactly with any ...
( Category: Literary March 12,2020 )
The Writings of Henry David Thoreau VI by Henry David Thoreau
epub |eng | 2016-07-30 | Author:Henry David Thoreau [Thoreau, Henry David]

—— Essays on Picturesque Subjects. 8vo. 15 s. Cadell. —— Exposition of the New Testament. 2 vols. 8vo. 16 s. Longman. —— Forest Scenery, by Sir T. D. Lauder. 2 ...
( Category: Memoirs March 12,2020 )
The Friendship Highway - Two Journeys in Tibet by Charlie Carroll
epub |eng | 2014-05-05 | Author:Charlie Carroll

I could have struck on further, but found myself mesmerised by Nam-tso itself, and so moved back towards it, where I sat down at the edge and breathed in the ...
( Category: Travelers & Explorers March 11,2020 )
Harvard Classics Volume 27 by English Essays
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:English Essays [Essays, English]

Introductory Note Sydney Smith Sydney Smith (1771–1845) was an English clergyman noted as the wittiest man of his time. He was educated at Winchester and Oxford, and in 1798 went ...
( Category: Anthologies March 11,2020 )
Travels through History: Nine Greek Islands by Julian Worker
epub |eng | 2018-04-24 | Author:Julian Worker

Syros - Cyclades Syros - Umbrellas over a street in Ermoupoli The first historical mention of Syros is made by Homer, who named the island as “Syria” and then referred ...
( Category: Travel Writing March 11,2020 )
THE COOK, THE RAT AND THE HERETIC: by HUGO SOSKIN
epub |eng | 2011-09-20 | Author:HUGO SOSKIN

MAYBE GRAILS ARE US, AFTER ALL Over the following couple of days Rosy was in her element. She was skulking around in the undergrowth following everything Chris II and Bertrand ...
( Category: Travel Writing March 11,2020 )
My River Chronicles by Jessica DuLong
epub |eng | 2009-07-15 | Author:Jessica DuLong

In my five years as a marine engineer, I’ve acquired a few strategies for managing the unwanted attention I endure because I’m female. When entering a new situation, I fortify ...
( Category: United States March 11,2020 )
Letters from a Landscape Painter by Charles Lanman
epub |eng | 2017-01-10 | Author:Charles Lanman [Lanman, Charles]

When thy hunger-shriek echoes through the wilderness, with terror does the wild animal seek his den, for thy talons are of iron and thy eyes of fire. But what is ...
( Category: Americas March 11,2020 )

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