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Waste-Land Wanderings is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1887. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres. As a publisher we focus on the preservation of historical literature. Many works of historical writers and scientists are available today as antiques only. Hansebooks newly publishes th...

Excerpt from The Hermit of Nottingham: A Novel I think Bob's real mean, Helen said, before her mother could repeat her question. He won't go to Riverside and find out what I want to know, and you said yourself it would be so nice for me to join the Revolutionary Daughters Of Colonial Dames. Oh, Oh, Oh l gurgled her brother Robert, as he looked steadily into the grate and tried to send the smoke Of a cigarette up the chimney. About the Publi...

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Excerpt from Notes of the Night: And Other Outdoor Sketches Trust the following pages need no explana tion, and the necessity of a preface would be done away with, much to the author's relief, were it not that here, if anywhere, acknowledgments may be made. Three of the following essays have appeared in sgfiz'ncott's Magazine, and are here reproduced by kind permission of the pub lishers of that periodical. Here and there through out the volu...

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Excerpt from A Colonial Wooing Stepping rather reluctantly into the yard, I sat down on the ¿oor of the porch near Silas, - for he did not offer to get me a chair, - and waited for him to speak. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digi...

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Excerpt from Upland and Meadow: A Poaetquissings ChronicleNow, as a matter of fact, there are not so many creeks, on the Jersey side, emptying into the Delaware between the falls and the capes, as Lindstrom mentions or Campanius describes in detail, and we can only con clude that two or more names refer, in some cases, to the same stream, or the creek and the land it drained were known by different names. In either case, we have left us no alt...

Excerpt from Stone Age in New Jersey The abundance of the weapons and domestic implements of the aborigines suggests that each village had at least one implement-maker, that the various stone articles were the product of the skill of some one of every community, who was exclusively devoted to the business of making them. Although, when on hunting-expeditions or in battle, the single specimens lost would have the effect to mingle all the style...

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Excerpt from Descriptive Catalogue of the Vertebrates of New Jersey: A Revision of Dr. Abbott's Catalogue of 1868 At the request of the late Dr. Cook, I herewith present a revision of Dr. Charles C. Abbott's Catalogue of the Vertebrated Animals of New Jersey, published as Appendix E, Geology of New Jersey, Owing to the numerous changes in nomenclature and classification which have been made within the last twenty years, the labor of merely re...

Excerpt from Ten Years' Diggings in Lenâpè Land: 1901-1911It is, therefore, when we enter the archaeological field, like going from darkness into light, from a prison into freedom, from error into truth. T'ime here is a stranger in a strange land. It can make no demands but we may laugh at them. An archaeologist is a free man. He. Has facts only as his companions, and his sole duty is to record their relationship. Ten or ten thousand are mere ...

Excerpt from In Nature's RealmHere, however, a word Of caution. NO book concerning Nature is in any sense a mirror re¿ecting every detail. The many subtle charms the rambler recognizes, when under the bright blue sky, are not brought home with him. He cannot pierce with a pencil - point many an impression as you may pin a butter¿y.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.for...

Excerpt from Outings at Odd TimesHaving an outdoor book in hand, when and how should it be read? It is no doubt very tempting to think of a shady nook, or babbling brook, or both, in connection with the latest out door volume. Possibly, as you start out for a quiet day, you string together a bit of rhyme con cerning the book, as Leigh Hunt did and others have done since. It is a common practice to carry a book into the fields, but not a logica...