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The Romance of Excavation
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David Masters
The Romance of Excavation: A Record of the Amazing Discoveries in Egypt, Assyria, Troy, Crete, etc., with Twenty-Nine Illustrations,From the…
Tutankhamen: and the Discovery of His Tomb by the Late Earl of Carnarvon and Mr…
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Sir Grafton Elliot Smith
(From the Introduction) “Never before in the history of archaeological inquiry has any event excited such immediate and world-wide interest …
A History of California: The Spanish Period
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Charles Edward Chapman
If you have ever wondered why Spain (and not Japan, which was so so much better positioned to do it) was first to “settle” the Golden State,…
A History of California: The American Period
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Robert Glass Cleland
The Author's own summary surveys “first the faint awakenings of American interest in the Spanish province of Alta California. The New Englan…
Europe In The Middle Ages
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Ierne Lifford Plunket
Though sometimes called the "Dark Ages", the period of Middle Ages is far from dull or uninteresting. In this book I. L. Plunket m…
The Secret of the Sahara: Kufara
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Rosita Forbes
In an age when women were expected to remain at home, entertain, and rear children, Rosita Forbes elected "to boldly go where no one ha…
Round About a Great Estate
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Richard Jefferies
John Richard Jefferies (1848-1887) wrote of country life, natural history, and agricultural practice at a time when the industrial revolutio…
The Cruise of the Alerte - In Search of Treasure
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Edward Frederick Knight
The book describes a voyage undertaken in 1889 by an English barrister Edward Frederick Knight to the South Seas. This delightful story take…
The Cruise of the Falcon - A Voyage to South America in a 30-Ton Yacht
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Edward Frederick Knight
In this fine sailing and exploring yarn, Edward Frederick Knight (1852-1925), sometime English barrister, journalist, sportsman, and amateur…
The Tickencote Treasure
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William Le Queux
Paul Pickering is a doctor without a fixed practice, and when an old sea captain asks him to join a voyage around the Mediterranean, that's …
Despoilers of the Golden Empire
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Randall Garrett
A handful of men, and an incredible adventure—a few super-men, led by a fanatic, seeking to conquer a new world! The story appears to be ab…
An Introduction to the History of Science
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Walter Libby
A highly accessible introductory history of the development of scientific thought, method, and application from the first practical concepts…
California Desert Trails
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Joseph Smeaton Chase
"I fell an easy prey to the beckonings of the other principal feature of California's topography, the dreamy, dreary desert. Long ago, …
Money to Burn, An Adventure Story
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Reginald Wright Kauffman
From the dedication: "On a train by day, or abed by night, you will read "Money to Burn" and immediately forget it--which is …
The North West Passage -The Gjöa Expedition 1903-1907 (Volume I)
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Roald Amundsen
Roald Amundsen and six hearty seafarers tackle the North West Passage in search of the elusive wandering magnetic North Pole. (Summary by St…
The North West Passage -The Gjöa Expedition 1903-1907 (Volume II)
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Roald Amundsen
Volume II of Roald Amundsen's The Northwest Passage. Roald Amundsen and six hearty seafarers in the tiny sloop Gjöa are the first to ma…
In Quest of El Dorado
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Stephen Graham
Lively (and often unsparing) descriptions of the people, places, and customs that the author encounters as he attempts to retrace the steps …
In the Land of Cave and Cliff Dwellers
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Frederick Schwatka
An adventurer and explorer of no mean repute, Lieutenant Frederick Schwatka leads an expedition by mule train into the forbidding Sierra Mad…
The Last Secrets
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John Buchan
The author, John Buchan, maintains that "the main lines of the earth's architecture have been determined" during the first two dec…
In the Heart of Africa
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Samuel White Baker
A wonderfully readable condensation of two of Baker's earlier, longer works recounting his self-sponsored expeditions into the Dark Continen…