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Trieste Publishing has a massive catalogue of classic book titles. Our aim is to provide readers with the highest quality reproductions of fiction and non-fiction literature that has stood the test of time. The many thousands of books in our collection have been sourced from libraries and private collections around the world.The titles that Trieste Publishing has chosen to be part of the collection have been scanned to simulate the original. O...

Excerpt from The Conquest of the Air, or the Advent of Aerial NavigationThe final conquest of the air by man finds no popular and, at the same time, scientific account, in English, of its accomplishment. While the rapid progress which is daily being made in aerial navigation necessarily renders any permanent record of the latest achieve ments impossible, yet the epoch when me chanical ¿ight was demonstrated to the world seems opportune to chro...

Timber harvesting can be a dangerous occupation, and so can helping a friend in trouble. When reluctant sleuths Sarah Cassidy and Oliver Wendell combine the two, they find the result is downright murder. It all starts when boatbuilder Pearly Gaites persuades Sarah and Oliver to help a logger friend who appears to have been framed for murder. There's more to the logger than meets the eye, however, and the duo quickly find themselves caught up i...

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Excerpt from An Account of the Foundation and Work of the Blue Hill: Meteorological Observatory The value of observations taken at moderate elevations is attested by the increasing number of mountain observatories in Europe... As Blue Hill has the first private observatory of the kind in this country, we shall look with especial interest for the results of studies based upon its records." The original plan was to use the Observatory on Blue ...

Excerpt from Sounding the Ocean of Air: Being Six Lectures, Delivered Before the Lowell Institute of Boston in December 1898 And strengthening it they are re¿ected and detach all the particles they can carry away, vapours descend and rise again, the winds come empty and return laden with spoil, animals breathe in from above this vital ¿uid which animates them, and the earth sends it back to its source as if she would fill the void by this mea...

For years, Ziggy Breener, Burnt Cove's eccentric Can Man, has lived a simple life, riding his bicycle along the town roads to collect returnables. Life gets a lot more complicated when Ziggy inherits a piece of prime waterfront land from the equally eccentric Myra Huggard. Moving to a new neighborhood brings new friends as well as new enemies. Sadly, his friends turn out to be more dangerous than his enemies, especially when he's presented wit...

Excerpt from The Conquest of the Air: Or the Advent of Aërial Navigation The final conquest of the air by man finds no popular and, at the same time, scientific account, in English, of its accomplishment. While the rapid progress which is daily being made in aerial navigation necessarily renders any permanent record of the latest achievements impossible, yet the epoch when mechanical flight was demonstrated to the world seems opportune to chr...

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