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Travel Collection: Short Non-fiction
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A collection of short, non-fiction travel memoirs or guides written in, or translated into, English. Material covered might be a museum, a v…
00 Preface
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Joseph Smeaton Chase
In California Desert Trails
"I fell an easy prey to the beckonings of the other principal feature of California's topography, the dreamy, dreary desert. Long ago, …
Preface
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James O. Brayman
In Thrilling Adventures By Land And Sea
There is in the adventures of the daring and heroic, something that interests all. There is a charm about them which, while it partakes of t…
Celebrated Travels and Travellers, vol. 1
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Jules Verne
The famous writer of great adventure stories Jules Verne wrote also several lesser known, but good non-fiction works. "Celebrated trave…
A Traveler in Time
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August Derleth
In Short Science Fiction Collection 058
Science fiction is a genre encompassing imaginative works that take place in this world or that of the author’s creation where anything is p…
Geographic Notes
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National Geographic Society
In The National Geographic Magazine Vol. 07 - 09. September 1896
The National Geographic Magazine, an illustrated monthly, the September Number. It includes the following articles:* The Recent Earthquake W…
Geographic Notes
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National Geographic Society
In The National Geographic Magazine Vol. 07 - 08. August 1896
The National Geographic Magazine, an illustrated monthly, the August Number. It includes the following articles:* The Work of the National G…
Chapters 15-19
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John Edward Marr
In North Lancashire
Cambridge County Geographies was a 75 volume series covering the counties of England, Scotland and Wales. Separate volumes were produced for…
Chapter 12
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Elizabeth Von Arnim
In The Caravaners
From the excellent and creative mind of Elizabeth von Arnim comes this humorous travelogue of parts of Great Britain and, if that were not e…
Chapter XIX. Gwalior and Rajputana, Part 1
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Ethel Gwendoline Vincent
In Forty Thousand Miles Over Land and Water
Subtitled "The Journal of a Tour through the British Empire and America," this book is a record of the author's travels with her h…
Travel Pictures: Preface
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I. L. Peretz
In Stories and Pictures
A collection of short stories written originally in Yiddish and later translated into English. These stories were published under censorship…
An Inland Voyage
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Robert Louis Stevenson
As a young man, Stevenson wished to be financially independent and began his literary career by writing travelogues. This is his first publi…
A Country Excursion
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Guy de Maupassant
In The Works of Guy de Maupassant, Volume 3: The Viaticum and Other Stories
This is volume is a collection of 50 of de Maupassant's short stories. Summary by James K. White.
01 - Preface; Chapter 1: Midhurst
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E.V. Lucas and E. V. Lucas
In Highways and Byways in Sussex
A very personal and opinionated wander through the Sussex of around 1900, illustrated with anecdotes, literary and poetic quotations, graves…
Preface
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Joseph Dunn
In The Glories of Ireland
A collection of essays on Ireland compiled by Joseph Dunn and PJ Lennox. As stated in the Preface to the books "...we have been forced…
Introduction
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John Dryden Kuser
In Haiti: Its Dawn of Progress after Years in a Night of Revolution
This book is part history and part travelogue, an account of a brief visit by a wealthy, white U.S. politician during a lamentable time in H…
29 Homeward Bound
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Edward Frederick Knight
In The Cruise of the Falcon - A Voyage to South America in a 30-Ton Yacht
In this fine sailing and exploring yarn, Edward Frederick Knight (1852-1925), sometime English barrister, journalist, sportsman, and amateur…
Tales of a Traveller
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Washington Irving
Writing under the pseudonym, Geoffrey Crayon, Washington Irving chronicled his travels through Europe in the early 1820’s. He wrote of peopl…
Home Geography for Primary Grades
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C. C. Long
Lessons and exercises for young children, exploring map and compass, mountains and rivers, trees and flowers, wind and rain, and more. (Summ…
Essays of Travel
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Robert Louis Stevenson
This book includes fascinating essays by Robert Louis Stevenson about his travels in England, Europe, and the United States. They provide ev…