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Juju
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Murray Leinster
A 1919 pulp-press tale of deepest darkest Africa. - Summary by david wales
A Child's Book Of The Seasons
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Arthur Ransome
This book is part of the author’s "Nature Books For Children" series (three books), which is probably the best indication of its t…
Pond And Stream
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Arthur Ransome
This book is part of the author’s "Nature Books For Children" series (three books), which is probably the best indication of its t…
A Child's Book of the Garden: The Things in Our Garden
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Arthur Ransome
This book is part of the author’s "Nature Books For Children" series (three books), which is probably the best indication of its t…
Tales Of Lonely Trails
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Zane Grey
Western novelist Zane Grey (1872-1939) also wrote nonfiction books about the American West and its country. This 1922 tribute to country he…
The Indians Of Carlsbad Caverns National Park
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Margaret Herschel and Jack R. Williams
A short review of the history and presence of Native Americans in the area of the Carlsbad Caverns in New Mexico, USA. - Summary by david wa…
Contagion
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Katherine Maclean
Minos was such a lovely planet. Not a thing seemed wrong with it. Excepting the food, perhaps. And a disease that wasn't really. Originally…
The Times' Red Cross Story Book By Famous Novelists Serving In His Majesty's Fo…
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Various
These eighteen stories were published in 1915, in the midst of World War I. "Published For The Times' Fund For The Sick And Wounded&qu…
Cosmos: A Sketch of a Physical Description of The Universe: Introduction
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Alexander Von Humboldt
Friedrich Wilhelm Heinrich Alexander von Humboldt was a Prussian geographer, naturalist, explorer, and influential proponent of romantic phi…
Shandygaff
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Christopher Morley
A number of most agreeable Inquirendoes upon Life & Letters, interspersed with Short Stories & Skits, the whole most Diverting to th…
The Village and The Library
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George Crabbe
The Village is Crabbe’s corrective to the rosy-tinted view of English village and rural working class life. He was a stark realist, as a pri…
Myths and Legends of Alaska (version 2)
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Katharine Berry Judson
The myths in this 1911 volume are authentic. The original collections were made by government ethnologists. Only the quaintest and purest o…
A Thin Ghost And Others
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M. R. James
Five ghost stories, published in 1920, by the early twentieth century master of ghostery. - Summary by david wales
Kai Lung's Golden Hours
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Ernest Bramah
Kai Lung’s Golden Hours is a frame story or frame novel, that is, the narrative provides a frame for different stories. Think One Thousand A…
Ghosts And Family Legends; A Volume For Christmas
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Catherine Crowe
Fifteen ghost stories to hear around the Yule log. "It happened that I spent the last winter in a large country mansion, in the north o…
Hospital Transports; A Memoir Of The Embarkation Of The Sick And Wounded From T…
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Frederick Law Olmsted
In the American Civil War, The United States Sanitary Commission, staffed by volunteers, may be viewed as a precursor to The Red Cross. It s…
Trivia (1917) And More Trivia (1921)
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Logan Pearsall Smith
Logan Pearsall Smith (1865-1946) was an American-born British essayist who was known for his epigrams and aphorisms, often humorous. This re…
Myths And Legends Of The Great Plains (version 2)
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Katharine Berry Judson
Here, amidst the vast sweep of the plains which stretch away to the horizon on every side, boundless, limitless, endless, lived the plains I…
Under The Sky In California
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Charles Francis Saunders
This is a 1913 travelogue by a then-well-known botanist who wrote many books about the American Southwest and California in particular. This…
Modern Essays
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Christopher Morley
Thirty three essays by more or less well-known authors of Britain, the United States, and Canada, each fronted by an introductory paragraph.…