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Jewitt Rejects His Native Wife

In A Captivity of Nearly Three Years Among the Savages of Nootka Sound

Read by Sue Anderson

John R. Jewitt

John Jewitt (1783-1821), a blacksmith by trade, spent the years 1803-1806 as a slave among the Nuu-chah-nulth people of Nootka Sound, off t…

The Salines of Southern Illinois

In Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 059

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George W. Smith

Sixteen short nonfiction works in the public domain, independently chosen by the readers. Volume 59 contains an eclectic mix of readings, ra…

A Plot is Laid; Arrival at Havana

In Travels to Oaxaca

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Nicolas-Joseph Thiéry de Menonville, Nicolas-Joseph Thiéry De Menonville and Nicolas-Joseph Thiéry de Menonville

Botanical Piracy! A French botanist plots to steal red dye cochineal insects from Spanish Mexico and transplant them and their cacti hosts …

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