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Cover of The Elephant God
by Gordon Gasserly
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009

Account of elephant hunting in India, first published in 1921. "TO A CERTAIN ROGUE ELEPHANT RESIDENT IN THE TERAI FOREST THE SLAYER OF DIVERS MEN AND WOMEN THIS BOOK IS DEDICATED BY THE AUTHOR IN GRATEFUL ACKNOWLEDGMENT OF MUCH INSTRUCTION AND IN THE HOPE THAT SOME DAY IN THE HAPPY HUNTING GROUNDSTHEY MAY MEET AGAIN AND DECIDE THE ISSUE."
Cover of Peeps at Many Lands: Burma
by R. Talbot Kelly
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009

Overview of life in Burma around 1900. Chapter titles include: The Land, Rangoon, The People, The Irrawaddy, Village Life, Town Life, Field Work, The Forest, and Temples and Religion.
Cover of The Journals of Lewis and Clark
by Meriwether Lewis, William Clark
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009

This edition retains the original idiosyncratic spelling and punctuation. " "These Journals are from May 14, 1804, the day the expedition left the Mississippi River, to September 26, 1806, a day or two after they arrived back in St. Louis. It includes all possible Journal entries of Lewis and Clark....
Cover of Saint Augustine
by Louis Bertrand
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009

According to Wikipedia: "Augustine of Hippo (Latin: Aurelius Augustinus Hipponensis) (November 13, 354 August 28, 430), Bishop of Hippo Regius, also known as St. Augustine or St. Austin, was a philosopher and theologian. Augustine, a Latin church father, is one of the most important figures in the development...
Cover of A Little Swiss Sojourn
by William Dean Howells
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009

Autobiographical travelogue. According to Wikipedia: "William Dean Howells (March 1, 1837 May 11, 1920) was an American realist author and literary critic... In 1858, he began to work at the Ohio State Journal where he wrote poetry, short stories, and also translated pieces from French, Spanish, and...
Cover of A Tour Through the Pyrenees (Illustrated)
by Hippolyte Adolphe Taine
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009

Travel narrative first published in 1875, with engravings by Gustave Dore. The book begins: "The river is so fine, that before going to Bayonne I have come down as far as Royan. Ships heavy with white sails ascend slowly on both sides of the boat. At each gust of wind they incline like idle birds,...
Cover of Audubon and His Journals, volume 1 of 2, illustrated
by Maria R. Audubon
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009

Volume 1 of 2. First published in 1897. This edition includes the illustrations that appeared in the original (all of which are black and white). According to Wikipedia: "John James Audubon (Jean-Jacques Audubon) (April 26, 1785 January 27, 1851) was a French-American ornithologist, naturalist, and...
Cover of The Land of Midian (Revisited), both volumes
by Richard Burton
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009

According to Wikipedia: "Captain Sir Richard Francis Burton KCMG FRGS (19 March 1821 20 October 1890) was a British explorer, translator, writer, soldier, orientalist, ethnologist, spy, linguist, poet, fencer and diplomat. He was known for his travels and explorations within Asia, Africa and the Americas...
Cover of The Arabian Nights, Their Best-Known Tales
by Wiggin, Kate Douglas
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2015

According to Wikipedia: "Kate Douglas Wiggin ( 1856 - 1923) was an American children's author and educator. Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin was born in Philadelphia, and was of Welsh descent. She started the first free kindergarten in San Francisco in 1878 (the Silver Street Free Kindergarten). With her sister...
Cover of John Keble's Parishes, A History of Hursley and Otterbourne
by Charlotte Yonge
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009

History of two parishes in England. According to Wikipedia: "Charlotte Mary Yonge ( 1823 - 1901), was an English novelist, known for her huge output, now mostly out of print. ... She began writing in 1848, and published during her long life about 100 works, chiefly novels. ... Among the best known of...
Cover of Records of a Girlhood
by Frances Ann Kemble
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009

Popular autobiography, first published in 1879. According to Wikipedia: "Frances Anne Kemble (27 November 1809 - 15 January 1893), was a famous British actress and author in the early and mid nineteenth century… In 1834, she retired from the stage to marry an American, Pierce Butler, grandson of the...
Cover of The Congo and Coasts of Africa
by Richard Harding Davis
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009

According to Wikipedia: "Richard Harding Davis (18 April 1864—11 April 1916) was a popular writer of fiction and drama, and a journalist famous for his coverage of the Spanish-American War, the Second Boer War, and the First World War. Davis, whose mother Rebecca Harding Davis was also a prominent...
Cover of Mare Nostrum (Our Sea), in English translation
by Vincinte Blasco Ibanez
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009

According to Wikipedia: "Vicente Blasco Ibáñez (January 29, 1867 January 28, 1928) was a Spanish realist novelist writing in Spanish, a screenwriter and occasional film director. Born in Valencia, today he is best known in the English-speaking world for his World War I novel Los cuatro jinetes del...
Cover of Frank Merriwell Down South
by Standish, Burt L.
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2015

According to Wikipedia: "William George Gilbert Patten (October 25, 1866 - January 16, 1945) was a writer of dime novels and is best known as author of the Frank Merriwell stories, with the pen name Burt L. Standish…. He was a writer of dime novels. His first published dime novel was The Diamond Sport;...
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