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Autobiography of Lutfullah
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The Aran Islands
"In the late 1890s, John M. Synge, in his middle twenties and unsure of his vocations made his way to Paris intending to study French literature and become a literary critic. There he met William Butler Yeats. The eminent poet advised Synge to drop his involvements with fin de siecle French authors, return to Ireland, and describe a society with which he had some natural connection.
Yeats…
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Excursions
"Excursions presents texts of nine essays, including some of Thoreau's most engaging and popular works, newly edited and based on the most authoritative versions of each. These essays represent Thoreau in many stages of his writing career, ranging from 1842-when he accepted Emerson's commission to review four volumes of botanical and zoological catalogues in an essay that was published in The…
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Hills and the sea
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A week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers
Thoreau's first book excels at depicting nature around his trip in words.
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Le Rhin
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The Maine Woods
The Maine Woods is a characteristically Thoreauvian book: a personal account of exploration, of exterior and interior discovery in a natural setting, conveyed in taut, workmanlike prose. Thoreau's evocative renderings of the life of the primitive forest--its mountains, waterways, fauna, flora, and inhabitants--are valuable in themselves. But his impassioned protest against despoilment in the name…
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The Lands of the Saracen
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Journey Without Maps
This is an account of a trip Greene made in 1935 with his cousin, Barbara Greene, through the previously unexplored interior of Liberia. It was an extremely uncomfortable journey, with Greene falling seriously ill halfway through the trip. Possibly as a result of this he also made a point of noting the many illnesses with which the local inhabitants were assailed, particularly malaria and…
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Ein Winter auf Mallorca
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A little tour in France
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Journal d'un voyage à Temboctou et à Jenné, dans l'Afrique centrale
Second book of 3. First person account of how René Caillié managed to get to Temboctou in 1828 ( and managed to get back to tell the story). This book , the book end when mister Caillié is following a caravan, trying to get back to African sea coast.
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Pictures from Italy
From the book:If the readers of this volume will be so kind as to take their credentials for the different places which are the subject of its author's reminiscences, from the Author himself, perhaps they may visit them, in fancy, the more agreeably, and with a better understanding of what they are to expect. Many books have been written upon Italy, affording many means of studying the history of…
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The Life of the Fields
This book is a reprint of the following stories printed in the following publications: *Time*, *Longman's* *Magazine*, *The* *Graphic*, *The* *Standard*, *The* *Magazine* *of* *Art*, *The* *Gentleman's* *Magazine*, *The* *St.* *James's* *Gazette*, *The* *National* *Review*, *The* *Manchester* *Guardian*, and *The* *Pall* *Mall* *Gazette*.
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Canoeing in the wilderness
From the great nature writer behind Walden comes an account of a trip he made into the wilderness. The chief attraction that inspired Thoreau to make the trip was the primitiveness of the region. Here was a vast tract of almost virgin woodland, peopled only with a few loggers and pioneer farmers, Indians, and wild animals.
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Tent-life in Siberia and adventures among the Koraks and other tribes in Kamchatka and northern Asia
An account of a period living in Siberia in pursuit of a plan to carry a telegraph line across land to Europe through Siberia in consequence of the failure of efforts to carry a telegraph line to Europe under the Atlantic.
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My discovery of England
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Travels with a donkey in the Cevennes
Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes recounts Robert Louis Stevenson's 120 mile, 12 day hike, accompanied only by his stubborn and unwieldy donkey, through the Cevennes of south-central France. A pioneering piece of outdoor literature, it is one of Stevenson's earliest works, and one of the earliest accounts of hiking and camping for recreation rather than necessity. Stevenson's route is still…
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