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Journal of Jasper Danckaerts Jasper Danckaerts · 1867 · 313p · ≈ 10h · Challenging The Journal of two members of the Labadist sect who came over to this country in order to find a location for the establishment of a community has served to throw a flood of light upon what otherwise might have been a lost chapter in the history of Maryland. For so meagre are the sources of ready availability for a knowledge of the Labadist colony which was effected in Maryland that without this… Shares: Descriptions et voyages, Histoire, Description and travel, Early works to 1800

Operations carried on at the pyramids of Gizeh in 1837: with an account of a voyage into Upper Egypt, and an appendix Richard William Howard Howard-Vyse · 1840 · 439p · ≈ 14h · Challenging Shares: Descriptions et voyages, Antiquities, Description and travel, Travel

Trionfo della morte Gabriele D'Annunzio · 1896 · ★ 3.8 · 315p · ≈ 10h · Challenging Trionfo della morte, apparso prima a puntate sulla “Tribuna illustrata” e su “Il mattino” e poi pubblicato in volume nel 1894, chiude il cosiddetto ciclo dei «Romanzi della Rosa» iniziato con Il piacere (1889) e proseguito con L’innocente (1892). È un testo fortemente influenzato dall’estetica wagneriana e dalle teorie superomistiche di Nietzsche. L’opera più che dalla trama appare sorretta dalla… Shares: Antiquities, Description and travel, Early works to 1800, Travel

Autobiography of Lutfullah Lutfullah · 1857 · 429p · ≈ 14h · Challenging Book digitized by Google and uploaded to the Internet Archive by user tpb. Shares: Descriptions et voyages, Description and travel, Travel, History

Seven Years in Tibet (Sieben Jahre in Tibet) Heinrich Harrer · 1952 · ★ 4.3 · 314p · ≈ 10h · Moderate An account of an Austrian mountain climber's escape from a British internment camp in India during World War II and his twenty-one-month journey through the Himalayas to safety in the Forbidden City of Lhasa in Tibet. Shares: Description, Descriptions et voyages, Description and travel, Travel

The history of New-Hampshire Jeremy Belknap · 1784 · ★ 2.8 · 480p · ≈ 16h · Demanding The HISTORY OF COLONIAL NORTH AMERICA collection includes books from the British Library digitised by Microsoft. This collection refers to the European settlements in North America through independence, with emphasis on the history of the thirteen colonies of Britain. Attention is paid to the histories of Jamestown and the early colonial interactions with Native Americans. The contextual… Shares: Descriptions et voyages, Histoire, Description and travel, Early works to 1800

Tent-life in Siberia and adventures among the Koraks and other tribes in Kamchatka and northern Asia George Kennan · 1870 · 425p · ≈ 14h · Challenging 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. Shares: Description and travel, Travel, Social life and customs

Travels through France and Italy Tobias Smollett · 1766 · ★ 3.0 · 316p · ≈ 10h · Demanding Smollett describes in great detail the natural phenomena, history, social life, economics, diet and morals of the places he visited. Smollett had a lively and pertinacious curiosity, and, as his novels prove, a very quick eye. He foresaw the merits of Cannes, then a small village, as a health-resort, and the possibilities of the Corniche road. Shares: Description, Description and travel, Early works to 1800, Travel

Travels with Charley John Steinbeck · 1962 · ★ 4.1 · 290p · ≈ 9h · Moderate A quest across America, from the northernmost tip of Maine to California's Monterey Peninsula To hear the speech of the real America, to smell the grass and the tress, to see the colors and the light—these were John Steinbeck's goals as he set out, at the age of fifty-eight, to rediscover the country he had been writing about for so many years. With Charley, his French poodle, Steinbeck drives… Shares: Description, Descriptions et voyages, Description and travel, Travel

The travelling bachelor James Fenimore Cooper · 1828 · 486p · ≈ 16h · Challenging Notions of the Americans in considered Cooper's first work of non-fiction despite a thin overlay of character and plot. Written in the form of a travel narrative, it addresses the widespread ignorance he encountered in Europe about the people and institutions of the United States. It is an exuberant chant of praise for American representative democracy, encapsulating the utopian vision that… Shares: Descriptions et voyages, Description and travel, Early works to 1800, Travel

The History, Civil and Commercial, of the British Colonies in the West Indies ...: In Two Volumes Bryan Edwards · 1789 · 512p · ≈ 17h · Demanding The GENERAL HISTORICAL collection includes books from the British Library digitised by Microsoft. This varied collection includes material that gives readers a 19th century view of the world. Topics include health, education, economics, agriculture, environment, technology, culture, politics, labour and industry, mining, penal policy, and social order. Shares: Descriptions et voyages, Histoire, Description and travel, Early works to 1800

Canoeing in the wilderness Henry David Thoreau · 1916 · ★ 3.8 · 96p · ≈ 3h · Challenging 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. Shares: Descriptions et voyages, Description and travel, Travel

Chroniques Jean Froissart · 1542 · 484p · ≈ 16h · Demanding Celui qui signe la chronique du vin dans Le Devoir, nous livre ici, dans un style bien à lui, un manuel d'appréciation du vin à la mode d'aujourd'hui. En six chapitres : Elaboration et styles de vin - Vin des vieux pays et du nouveau monde - Vins blancs et rouges - Les artistes du vin - L'amateur averti - Tendances. [SDM]. Shares: Sources, Histoire, Early works to 1800, Travel

Description of Greece Pausanias · 1613 · 488p · ≈ 16h · Demanding Pausanias (110 – 180 A.D.), was a Greek geographer, known for his work Description of Greece.  The ten volumes (which are all included), cover Attica, Corinth, Laconia, and more.  This edition is translated by W.H.S. Jones and H.A. Ormerod. Shares: Descriptions et voyages, Antiquities, Description and travel, Early works to 1800

The Lands of the Saracen Bayard Taylor · 1854 · 451p · ≈ 15h · Challenging This volume comprises the second portion of a series of travels. This work includes author's adventure travels in Palestine, Syria, Asia Minor, Sicily and Spain. Shares: Description and travel, Travel

Journey Without Maps Graham Greene · 1936 · 249p · ≈ 8h · Challenging This is an account of a trip Graham 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… Shares: Description and travel, Travel

Embajada a Tamorlán Ruy González de Clavijo · 1406 · 248p · ≈ 8h · Demanding Embajada a Tamorlán, o Historia del Gran Tamorlan, e itinerario y enarracion del viage, y relacion de la embajada que Ruy Gonzalez de Clavijo le hizo por mandado del rey Enrique III de Castilla, es un libro de viaje que da cuenta de la experiencia vivida por los embajadores, entre ellos el escritor de la crónica, Ruy González de Clavijo, enviados por el rey Enrique III de Castilla, así como la… Shares: Descriptions et voyages, Description and travel, Early works to 1800, Travel

North America Anthony Trollope · 1862 · ★ 4.0 · 310p · ≈ 10h · Challenging Anthony Trollope (1815-1882) was one of the most successful, prolific and respected English novelists of the Victorian era. He wrote penetrating novels on political, social, and gender issues and conflicts of his day. In 1867 Trollope left his position in the British Post Office to run for Parliament as a Liberal candidate in 1868. After he lost, he concentrated entirely on his literary career.… Shares: Descriptions et voyages, Description and travel, Early works to 1800, Travel

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