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Peaks of Shala

Peaks of Shala

Rose Wilder Lane | History
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I would not have this book considered too seriously. It is not an attempt to untangle one thread in the Balkan snarl; it is not a study of primitive peoples; it is not a contribution to the world’s knowledge, and I hope no one will read it to improve the mind. It should be read as the adventures...

White Mountain Trails

White Mountain Trails

Winthrop Packard | History
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TO THE SUMMIT OF MOUNT WASHINGTON ANDOTHER SUMMITS OF THE WHITE HILLS

News from No Man's Land

News from No Man's Land

James Green | History
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For reasons known to the men of the Australian Imperial Force, I am always interested in meeting others who wear the green badge on their arm. A good soldier is always as proud of the colours he wears on his shoulder as the colours he wears on his breast. He knows that each brigade and battalion...

Father Thames

Father Thames

Walter Higgins | History
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England is not a country of great rivers. No mighty Nile winds lazily across desert and fertile plains in its three and a half thousand miles course to the sea; no rushing Brahmaputra plunges headlong down its slopes, falling two or three miles as it crosses half a continent from icy mountain-tops...

Famous Colonial Houses

Famous Colonial Houses

Paul M. Hollister | History
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As I read in Mr. Hollister’s chapter on Mount Vernon of Washington’s long absence from the home he loved and of the eagerness with which he returned to it after the tumultuous years of the Revolutionary War, I was caught by the fancy that lovers of books have recently gone through a somewhat...

Africa and the American Flag

Africa and the American Flag

Andrew H. Foote | History
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This book is about the United States African Naval Squadron suppression of the slave trade on the West coast of Africa. The U.S. Navy recaptured Africans bound for slaves to the United States aboard American ships and resettled them in the American colony in Liberia.The Slave Trade, 1842-1861 was...

The Native Races of British North America

The Native Races of British North America

Wilfrid D. Hambly | History
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The “Old World” was startled in 1493 by the great navigator Columbus, who returned with wonderful narratives concerning the “New World” of North America, whose native population he called “Indians” because, strange as it may seem to us, he thought that by sailing west he must come to...

The Two Dianas:  Volume 3

The Two Dianas: Volume 3

ALEXANDRE DUMAS | History
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The claim of Alexandre Dumas to be considered first among historical romancists, past or present, can hardly be disputed; and his magic pen finds abundant, rich material for the historical setting of the tale told in the following pages. The period in which the action of "The Two Dianas" is...

The Two Dianas:  Volume 2

The Two Dianas: Volume 2

ALEXANDRE DUMAS | History
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The claim of Alexandre Dumas to be considered first among historical romancists, past or present, can hardly be disputed; and his magic pen finds abundant, rich material for the historical setting of the tale told in the following pages. The period in which the action of "The Two Dianas" is...

The Two Dianas:  Volume 1

The Two Dianas: Volume 1

ALEXANDRE DUMAS | History
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The claim of Alexandre Dumas to be considered first among historical romancists, past or present, can hardly be disputed; and his magic pen finds abundant, rich material for the historical setting of the tale told in the following pages. The period in which the action of "The Two Dianas" is...