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Advance Australasia Frank Thomas Bullen · 1907 · 292p · ≈ 9h · Challenging With centuries of literature, it's inevitable that some will fall through the cracks. We hunt down public domain works and restore them so they're not lost to the world. Who are we? We're Cairn Press. Our background is in design, publishing, typography, and technology. These skills fuel our mission to create the highest quality Public Domain eBooks available online, at an affordable price. We… Shares: Economic conditions, Commerce, Description and travel

Impressions of America during the years 1833, 1834, and 1835 Power, Tyrone · 1836 · 232p · ≈ 7h · Challenging With centuries of literature, it's inevitable that some will fall through the cracks. We hunt down public domain works and restore them so they're not lost to the world. Who are we? We're Cairn Press. Our background is in design, publishing, typography, and technology. These skills fuel our mission to create the highest quality Public Domain eBooks available online, at an affordable price. We… Shares: Slavery, Descriptions et voyages, Description and travel, Early works to 1800

Essai politique sur le royaume de la Nouvelle-Espagne Alexander von Humboldt · 1811 · 245p · ≈ 8h · Challenging Depuis 1980, ces textes savamment sélectionnés et regroupés ici par Charles Minguet, n’avaient pas été réédités. Ils sont extraits de la relation historique du Voyage aux régions équinoxiales du Nouveau Continent (1814 à 1831), de l'Essai politique sur le royaume de la Nouvelle-Espagne (1808 et 1811), de l'Essai politique sur l'île de Cuba (1826), de Tableaux de la Nature (1808) et des Vues des… Shares: Economic conditions, Commerce, 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, Histoire, Description and travel, Early works to 1800

Society in America Harriet Martineau · 1837 · 376p · ≈ 12h · Challenging After having published several works on economics, Harriet Martineau travelled through the USA and wrote down her experiences in the work 'Society in America' in 1837. This book is a social study, that is known as one of the first sociological studies at all. She focuses on slavery and on women's role in American society and causes controversial discussion in her time. Shares: Economic conditions, Descriptions et voyages, Description and travel, Early works to 1800

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

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, Histoire, 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, Histoire, Description and travel, Early works to 1800

Father Henson's Story of His Own Life Josiah Henson · 1849 · 84p · ≈ 2h · Challenging This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe,… Shares: Blacks, Slaves, Slavery

Astoria Washington Irving · 1800 · 400p · ≈ 13h · Challenging In 1811 a group of American traders built a fort at the mouth of the Columbia River, named Fort Astoria in honor of its financier, John Jacob Astor. Envisioned as the spur of a fur-trading empire, by 1813 the project was a business failure and the fort was surrendered to the British. But in its short life Astoria rendered incalculable benefits to public understanding of the Great Northwest. The… Shares: Commerce, Descriptions et voyages, Description and travel, Travel

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

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, Travel

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

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, 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

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