71 Ergebnisse - Zeige 41 von 60.

Keine Beschreibung.

bTitle:/b The Story of Ulla, and other tales.br/br/bPublisher:/b British Library, Historical Print Editionsbr/br/The British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. It is one of the world's largest research libraries holding over 150 million items in all known languages and formats: books, journals, newspapers, sound recordings, patents, maps, stamps, prints and much more. Its collections include around 14 million books, along w...

Keine Beschreibung.

bTitle:/b The Constable of St. Nicholas, etc. [A novel.]br/br/bPublisher:/b British Library, Historical Print Editionsbr/br/The British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. It is one of the world's largest research libraries holding over 150 million items in all known languages and formats: books, journals, newspapers, sound recordings, patents, maps, stamps, prints and much more. Its collections include around 14 million boo...

Keine Beschreibung.

bTitle:/b The Wonderful Adventures of Phra the Phoenician, etc. [A novel.]br/br/bPublisher:/b British Library, Historical Print Editionsbr/br/The British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. It is one of the world's largest research libraries holding over 150 million items in all known languages and formats: books, journals, newspapers, sound recordings, patents, maps, stamps, prints and much more. Its collections include aro...

Excerpt from Bird Life in England IN 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 t...

Excerpt from The Wonderful Adventures of Phra the Phoenician A 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 slu...

Keine Beschreibung.

Thrill to the fantasy of Edwin Lester Arnold. Travel with Gulliver Jones as he is magically transported to the planet Mars. Exciting adventure with a unique 'twist' at the end!

Excerpt from On the Indian Hills: Or, Coffee-Planting in Southern India I commend these sketches of adventurous life in a little-known corner of India with more confidence because they bring out in a simple but picturesque fashion the natural variety and woodland features of a great region, whose immense resources for forestry, plantations, and hunting are even now hardly comprehended by Indian authorities. My son, who has put these pages tog...

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 On the Indian Hills, Vol. 1 of 2: Or, Coffee-Planting in Southern India We were starting, and the Almora, which had floated down to Gravesend with the last of the ebb tide, was already surrounded with boats crowding about the companion ladder. Sailors and passengers were hurrying backwards and forwards with shawls, wraps, and light luggage of all sorts, the boatmen were quarrelling amongst themselves, and everybody seemed in a fl...

Excerpt from On the Indian Hills, Vol. 2 of 2: Or Coffee-Planting in Southern India After a very pleasant stroll round D 's clearings, and imbibing much useful information, we finally got back to the bungalow, and I shook hands with my courteous host, and set out for my own estate, under the guidance of a swarthy, short, curly-headed native, looking like an aboriginal Australian, who had been sent to show me the way to Pardagherry. About the...

Work from the English author considered of great importance to 20th century science-fiction literature, and said to have inspired the Edgar Rice Burroughs' Barsoom series.

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

Coffee - its Cultivation and Profit is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1886. 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 ...

Keine Beschreibung.

Keine Beschreibung.

Keine Beschreibung.