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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 ...

Prose Pastorals 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 these boo...

Excerpt from Prose PastoralsNo apology is offered for writing these Pastorals, or for putting them before the public in their present form. When they were written the author had no thought of making a book. What they may be to others he does not know, but to himself they are homely transcripts from Nature's pages, gathered here and there, as commonplace as much that goes to make up Nature's every-day moods.The title to a book is like a door-pl...

Excerpt from Old YorkPlymouth colony. Looking out upon this historic stream are more ghost walks almost than can be counted along the entire coastline of Maine, from Cape Porpoise to the St. Croix.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitall...

Excerpt from Homestead HighwaysNature is the mother of sentiment, and to multitudes of people nothing is more charming in its reminiscent quality than the Old New Eng land country life. Away from its quiet home steads and tree-shadowed highways, into the noisy, crowded ruts of the city, the awakened memories of its old-fashioned and simple'habits, its plain fare, its Open-handed hospitality, are like beautiful pictures swept clear of years of ...

Excerpt from The Sokoki TrailThe man of scholarly inclination, especially if he have the tastes of the antiquarian, and many another who finds time to indulge in casual research, follows with a like enthusiasm and a like p'ertinacity the thread of tradition, that ¿owing down the stream of the accumulating years is lost in the great flood of accumulating historic events that are as responsive to the touch of To-day. Like the trained and sensiti...

Excerpt from Olde Cascoe: Ye Romance of Casco BayLike the Lost Arts of Egypt, the story that began with the coming of Du Guast to the Island of the Holy Cross and of Weymouth to the waters of the Sagadahoc is as a tale that is told. From the Revela tion of Ingram of the Golden City of the Bessabez, whose roofs outshone the setting sun among the dusky pines of Kadesquit, one unreels a tenuous thread of romance along which are hung the more mode...

Excerpt from Indian Wars of New England, Vol. 2Western Continent. Even the mind of Columbus was tinged with the glow of a lively romance as he argued with the doctors of Salamanca. As early as the first decade of the sixteenth century St. Brandan and the Isles of the Bimini were realities to Juan Ponce de Leon, the conqueror and governor of Porto Rico, and he eagerly sought out the latter that he might restore his shattered health by bath ing ...

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This is an especially valuable work for students of the French and Indian War. The extensive notes alone provide an abundance of further research materials. As the European powers struggled for control over the New World, the colonists endured wave after wave of brutal Indian attacks. This final volume of the series contains four separate sections: Queen Anne's War, Lovewell's War, Governor Shirley's War and the French and Indian War. Queen An...

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.

This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books may have occasional errors that do not impede the reading experience. We believe this work is culturally important and have elected to bring the book back into print as part of our cont...

This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books may have occasional errors that do not impede the reading experience. We believe this work is culturally important and have elected to bring the book back into print as part of our cont...

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