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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, Biography & Memoir

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: Slavery, Descriptions et voyages, Description and travel, Early works to 1800

A diary in America Frederick Marryat · 1839 · 300p · ≈ 10h · Challenging "First appeared in June 1839...in three volumes, with three supplementary volumes appearing later in the year... In preparing this edition...I have used both the first and second series." Shares: Slavery, Description and travel, Early works to 1800, Biography & Memoir

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, Biography & Memoir

The Aran Islands J. M. Synge · 1906 · 112p · ≈ 3h · Challenging "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… Shares: Descriptions et voyages, Description and travel, Biography & Memoir

Conversations with Brando Lawrence Grobel · 1991 · ★ 4.0 · 209p · ≈ 6h · Moderate Marlon Brando ha sido considerado como el mejor actor del siglo XX, el actor por antonomasia. Un ser excéntrico y extraño, pero, también, genial y extremadamente humano. En definitiva, la expresión máxima de lo que entendemos como un espíritu libre, constituido en auténtico mito del cine. Sin duda, una obra única y especial, por tratarse de un documento de primera mano en el que Marlon Brando se… Shares: Actors, Biography & Memoir

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

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

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, Description and travel, Early works to 1800

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

Hills and the sea Hilaire Belloc · 1906 · 301p · ≈ 10h · Challenging Hills and the Sea, first published in 1906 to critical acclaim, collects thirty-eight of Hilaire Belloc's essays, spanning several periods of time and travel. Belloc captures the essence of each place he visits--whether on the gloomy English fens, or the sunny Provence and Languedoc regions of France, or navigating the North Sea in a leaky boat. Praised for his blend of wit and philosophy, Belloc… Shares: Descriptions et voyages, Description and travel

Their Wedding Journey William Dean Howells · 1872 · ★ 3.2 · 64p · ≈ 2h · Challenging From the book:They first met in Boston, but the match was made in Europe, where they afterwards saw each other; whither, indeed, he followed her; and there the match was also broken off. Why it was broken off, and why it was renewed after a lapse of years, is part of quite a long love-story, which I do not think myself qualified to rehearse, distrusting my fitness for a sustained or involved… Shares: Descriptions et voyages, Description and travel, Biography & Memoir

Ein Winter auf Mallorca George Sand · 1869 · ★ 4.0 · 215p · ≈ 7h · Challenging Im November 1838 reist ein berühmtes Liebespaar nach Mallorca: George Sand und der von Tuberkulose gezeichnete Frédéric Chopin, der sich im südlichen Klima gesundheitliche Besserung erhofft. Zudem wollen die exzentrische Schriftstellerin und der Komponist ihr junges Liebesglück fernab von Klatsch und Tratsch der Pariser Gesellschaft genießen. Doch diese Reise ist voller Widrigkeiten: Erst nach… Shares: Descriptions et voyages, Description and travel, Biography & Memoir

Pictures from Italy Charles Dickens · 1846 · ★ 3.5 · 125p · ≈ 4h · Challenging 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… Shares: Descriptions et voyages, Description and travel, Biography & Memoir

Backwoods of Canada Catherine Parr Traill · 1836 · 351p · ≈ 11h · Challenging The toils, troubles, and satisfactions of pioneer life are recorded with charm and vivacity on The Backwoods of Canada, by Catherine Parr Traill, who, like her sister Susanna Moodie, left the comforts of genteel English society for the rigours of a new, young land. Traill offers a vivid and honest account of her trip to North America and of her first two and a helf years living in the bush… Shares: Descriptions et voyages, Description and travel, Biography & Memoir

A Survey of London John Stow · 1598 · ★ 3.9 · 473p · ≈ 15h · Demanding This volume offers a rare 1603 account of London and its history. Shares: Descriptions et voyages, Description and travel, Early works to 1800

[Some historical account of Guinea] Anthony Benezet · 1771 · 144p · ≈ 4h · Demanding Some Historical Account of Guinea Anthony Benezet, French-born American abolitionist and educator (1713 – 1784) This ebook presents «Some Historical Account of Guinea», from Anthony Benezet. A dynamic table of contents enables to jump directly to the chapter selected. Table of Contents About This Book Introduction Chapter I Chapter Ii Chapter Iii Chapter Iv Chapter V Chapter Vi Chapter… Shares: Slavery, Description and travel, Early works to 1800

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, Description and travel, Early works to 1800

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