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The National Geographic Magazine Vol. 08 - 03. March 1897

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National Geographic Society


The National Geographic Magazine, an illustrated monthly, the March Number. It includes the following articles: Storms and Weather Forecasts…

Glimpses of Italian society in the eighteenth century

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Hester Lynch Piozzi


Selections from the "Observations and reflections made in the course of a journey through France, Italy, and Germany" by Hester Ly…

Wild and romantic: Early guides to the English lake district

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Thomas Gray


A collection of some of the most significant literary work on the English Lake District prior to Thomas West’s A guide to the Lakes (1778). …

South-Sea Idyls

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Charles Warren Stoddard


The American Charles Warren Stoddard (1843–1909) wrote quite popular travel books, especially those about Polynesia. South-Sea Idyls (1873)…

Man and Nature on the Broads

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Arthur Henry Patterson


From its man-made origins as a consequence of medieval peat excavations, the Broads of Norfolk and Suffolk have evolved into a natural ecosy…

Voyage en Corse

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Gracieux Faure


La Corse, cette île de la mer Méditerrannée, nous fait immédiatement penser à la nature indomptée, …

Tafereelen uit Italie

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Charles Dickens


In 1844 reisde Charles Dickens samen met zijn gezin enkele maanden naar Frankrijk en Italie waar hij Rome, Napels, Venetie en Florence bezoc…

The National Geographic Magazine Vol. 08 - 05. May 1897

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National Geographic Society


The National Geographic Magazine, an illustrated monthly, the May Number. It includes the following articles: A Winter Voyage Through The St…

Schetsen uit Amerika

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Charles Dickens


"Schetsen uit Amerika", een Nederlandse vertaling van "American Notes" (vertaler onbekend), is een reisverslag van Charl…

Notes of An East Coast Naturalist

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Arthur Henry Patterson


Arthur Henry Patterson was a self-taught naturalist with an immeasurable knowledge and perspicacity of the Broadland region’s flora and faun…

The Pilgrims' Way from Winchester to Canterbury

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Julia Mary Cartwright


"This account of the Way trodden by the pilgrims of the Middle Ages through the South of England to the shrine of St. Thomas of Canterb…

The National Geographic Magazine Vol. 08 - 06. June 1897

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The National Geographic Magazine, an illustrated monthly, the June Number.It includes the following articles:The Effects of Geographic Envir…

Piloting Directions for the Gulf of Finland

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John William Norie


Norie's series of piloting and sailing directions was something of a staple in the chart-room of 19th century British (and other) merchant v…

In The Footprints Of The Padres

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Charles Warren Stoddard


The American Charles Warren Stoddard (1843–1909) wrote travel books quite popular in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. This…

The Land of the Broads

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Ernest Richard Suffling


The Broads area of Norfolk and Suffolk is in the East Anglian region of England. It is the location of Britain's third largest inland waterw…

Going Abroad? Some Advice

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Robert Luce


Going abroad for a holiday or business is always exciting, but we can only imagine how exciting it would have been in 1900 to board a steame…

Two Years in Oregon

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Wallis Nash


Wallis Nash was a British lawyer who visited Oregon and later emigrated with his family. His account covers a great breadth of description …

Haiti: Its Dawn of Progress after Years in a Night of Revolution

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John Dryden Kuser


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…

Our New Zealand Cousins

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James Inglis


A travelogue of a trip through New Zealand in 1885 with panegyric descriptions of the scenery, elucidations of the progress the country had …

American Scenery, Vol. 1

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Nathaniel Parker Willis


Although the focus of this book is the engravings depicting scenic sites of 19th century America, each is accompanied by a short description…

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