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Henry James 3p48u
A Little Tour in is a book of travel writing by American writer Henry James. Originally published under the title En Province in 1883–1884 as a serial in The Atlantic Monthly, the book recounts a six-week tour James made of many provincial towns in , including Tours, Bourges, Nantes, Toulouse, Arles and several others. The first book p.. 4i4a32
Herman Melville 5c497
Typee: A Peep at Polynesian Life is the first book by American writer Herman Melville, published first in London, then New York, in 1846. Considered a classic in travel and adventure literature, the narrative is partly based on the author's actual experiences on the island Nuku Hiva in the South Pacific Marquesas Islands in 1842, liberally suppleme..
Herman Melville 5c497
Omoo: A Narrative of Adventures in the South Seas is the second book by American writer Herman Melville, first published in London in 1847, and a sequel to his first South Sea narrative Typee, also based on the author's experiences in the South Pacific. After leaving the island of Nuku Hiva, the main character ships aboard a whaling vessel that mak..
Nathaniel Hawthorne 37n6c
Our Old Home: A Series of English Sketches is a travel literature work by Nathaniel Hawthorne. I have not asked your consent, my dear General, to the foregoing inscription, because it would have been no inconsiderable disappointment to me had you withheld it; for I have long desired to connect your name with some book of mine, in commem..
J. A. Hammerton 1g44k
The real Argentine: Notes and Impressions of a Year in the Argentine and Uruguay is a travel written by J. A. Hammerton whose other works include George Meredith in Anecdote and Criticism, J. M. Barrie and his Books, Our Highland Tour, The Call of the Town, The Actor’s Art, Humorists of the Pencil, English Humorists of To-day.So many ..
Dan De Quille 1n3d34
A History of the Comstock Silver Lode & Mines: Nevada and the Great Basin Region; Lake Tahoe and the High Sierras.The central idea in the preparation of this little book has been to give, as concisely as possible, such information in regard to the silver mines of the Comstock as the visiting tourist is likely to require. In doing this it was th..
Thomas Conant 4x2d12
IN presenting to the public these random sketches I crave the reader’s indulgence. I do not pretend to elegance of style in my writing, and if—as is doubtless the case—the canons of literary form are occasionally offended against in these pages, I ask the kindly consideration of the critics.If asked my reasons for publishing the volume, I would sta..
Arthur Quiller-Couch 4g684a
UR journey opens in Northamptonshire, and in that season when the year grows ancient,“Not yet on summer’s death, nor on the birthOf trembling winter.”In the stubble the crack! crack! of a stray gun speaks, now and again, of partridge-time. Over the pastures, undulating with ridge and furrow, where the black oxen feed, patches of gloom and gleam are..