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Excerpt from A Summer Holiday in ScandinaviaTee narrative which my eldest son has written in the following pages, describes faithfully - and I think not without interest - the stages, scenery, and incidents of one of the most delightful little journeys that I remember to have made in the course of many experiences of travel. Norway is a country which all lovers of Nature should certainly visit, and if they once go there it is likely that they ...

Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve ...

Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve ...

Excerpt from On the Indian Hills, Vol. 2 of 2: Or Coffee-Planting in Southern IndiaAppeared more dense and matted than farther to the north, great creepers swinging from tree to tree, while long rattan canes - a hundred springing from one root - climbed hither and thither, and overhung the road in festoons. Here, too, the pathway - for it was no longer a made road - ran along the top of a ridge, and although the valleys on either side were not...

Excerpt from On the Indian Hills, Vol. 1 of 2: Or, Coffee-Planting in Southern IndiaColonel F returning to Madras with his wife and two daughters, was clearly to be ranked amongst the former, and it was plain to see some half-dozen young men scattered up and down the table were amongst the latter. I knew them much better before long, and found them excellent fellows, all very confident in their own abilities, and fully determined to make fortu...

Excerpt from Lepidus the Centurion a Roman of to-DayAnd thus it had been with me always, wast ing my opportunities so assiduously, that my well wishers could but thank Providence my stomach would never have to rely on my head for sustenance, and even my dear widowed mother sighed as she put away in lavender all the womanly ambitions she had had for me, and tried to console herself with the vague re¿ection that if I failed in everything else, a...

Excerpt from Bird Life in EnglandIN these pages I have attempted to give a somewhat uncon ventional view of bird life in England and her sister kingdoms to north and west. The naturalist may smile at a monograph so incomplete as this, but in Yarrel, Morris, Gould, Grey, and a score of others, he will find exhaustive authors who have gone with infinite care and pains through the Whole list of British birds and epitomized each. No attempt of thi...

Excerpt from The Wonderful Adventures of Phra the PhoenicianA Briton in British days, the slave-consort of his Druid wife, he passes, by daring but convenient inventiveness, into the person of a Centurion in the household of a noble Roman lady who illustrates in her surroundings the luxurious vices of the latter empire with some relics still of the older Republican virtues. Hence he glides again into oblivion, yet wakes from the mystical slumb...

Excerpt from Coffee: Its Cultivation and ProfitUp, many deserving that the attention of those interested in this branch of commerce should be drawn to them as supplying fresh fields for enterprise and capital, and changing by their prosperity the face of regions which, though once clothed in dense Jungle, are now patched with the luxuriant green gardens characteristioof the industry, and dotted with the white bungalows of European superintende...

This rare and seminal science fiction novel (originally published in 1905 as LIEUT. GULLIVER JONES: HIS VACATION, predating Burroughs's Barsoom books by several years) has been generally unavailable for years.

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On the Indian Hills - Or, Coffee-Planting in Southern India is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1881. 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 antiqu...

Bird Life in England 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 the...

On the Indian Hills - Or, Coffee-Planting in Southern India is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1893. 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 antiqu...

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Purchase one of 1st World Library's Classic Books and help support our free internet library of downloadable eBooks. Visit us online at www.1stWorldLibrary.ORG - - Dare I say it? Dare I say that I, a plain, prosaic lieutenant in the republican service have done the incredible things here set out for the love of a woman - for a chimera in female shape, for a pale, vapid ghost of woman-loveliness? At times I tell myself I dare not: that you will...

The FICTION & PROSE LITERATURE collection includes books from the British Library digitised by Microsoft. The collection provides readers with a perspective of the world from some of the 18th and 19th century's most talented writers. Written for a range of audiences, these works are a treasure for any curious reader looking to see the world through the eyes of ages past. Beyond the main body of works the collection also includes song-books, co...

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