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The Hawaiian Archipelago

Read by Jane Bennett


Isabella L. Bird


Six months among the palm groves, coral reefs, and volcanoes of the Sandwich Islands. - Summary by Isabella Bird

Princes and Poisoners: Studies of the Court of Louis XIV

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Frantz Funck-Brentano


The court of French King Louis XIV was not a safe place to be. It was filled with plots and intrigues, leaving observers and commentators wi…

How Eric the Red came to Greenland (983), by Dr. Isaac I. Hayes

In The World’s Story Volume VIII: Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Iceland, Greenland and …

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Eva March Tappan


This is the eighth volume of the 15-volume series of The World’s Story: a history of the World in story, song and art, edited by Eva March T…

Chapter III Giovanni di Bicci, part 1

In The Medici, Volume 1

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G. F. Young


This work relates the history of the Medici family through three centuries and eleven generations, from its rise from obscurity, to its zeni…

The Murder of Escovedo

In Historical Mysteries

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Andrew Lang


Edited by Andrew Lang, Historical Mysteries is a collection of infamous unsolved mysteries from various points in history.

Uncle Jack's Story by Mrs. E. M. Field

In The Junior Classics Volume 6: Old-Fashioned Tales

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Variousandwilliam Patten


This collection of The Junior Classics is compiled from many wonderful authors including Alcott, Dickens, Hawthorne, and Carroll. The storie…

Preface

In Scottish Reminiscences

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Archibald Geikie


Archibald Geikie was a geologist in Scotland by profession, and a writer. While most of his writings were professional, this is a more perso…

Chapter I. Jan Huygen van Linschoten. Part II

In The Golden Book of the Dutch Navigators

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Hendrik Van Loon


This is a story of magnificent failures. The men who equipped the expeditions of which I shall tell you the story died in the poorhouse. The…

The Third Night of the Month

In The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night (Arabian Nights) Volume 11

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Anonymoustranslated Byrichard Francis Burton


This is a collection of stories collected over thousands of years by various authors, translators and scholars. They are an amalgam of mytho…

Chapter 11

In My Actor-Husband

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Anonymous


In presenting this autobiography to the public, the author feels it incumbent upon herself to impress upon her readers the fidelity and stri…

A trial by single combat (about 1194), by Sir Walter Scott

In The World’s Story Volume IX: England

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Eva March Tappan


This is the ninth volume of the 15-volume series of The World’s Story: a history of the World in story, song and art, edited by Eva March Ta…