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ReadThe Champlain tercentenary: Final report of the New York Lake Champlain tercentenary commission
Henry Wayland New York (State). Lake Champlain Tercentenary Commission; Hill
ReadThe History of Cuba, vol. 5
Willis Fletcher Johnson
The History of Cuba, vol. 5 is a comprehensive survey of the island’s natural and economic development,…
ReadProofs of a Conspiracy against all the Religions and Governments of Europe carried on in the secret meetings of Free Masons, Illuminati, and reading societies.
John Robison
Robison’s work is a polemical treatise that sets out to expose what he perceives as a coordinated effort by…
ReadThe Last Days of the Romanovs
N. Sokolov
The work is a historical compilation that brings together official depositions and a contemporary narrative…
The Greville Memoirs, Part 2 (of 3), Volume 1 (of 3) A Journal of the Reign of Queen Victoria from 1837 to 1852
Charles Greville
The Greville Memoirs, Part 2 is a three‑volume diary that continues Charles C.
ReadHarper's Pictorial Library of the World War, Volume XII: The Great Results of the War
Three Years' War
Christiaan Rudolf De Wet
Three Years' War is a first‑person memoir by Christiaan Rudolf de Wet, a Boer commander who took part in the…
ReadHarper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. III, No. XVII, October 1851
Various
Harper’s New Monthly Magazine, Vol. III, No. XVII (October 1851) is a nineteenth‑century periodical anthology…
ReadThe Philippine Islands, 1493-1898—Volume 34 of 55, 1519-1522; 1280-1605 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the Catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century
Antonio Pigafetta
The volume is a scholarly compilation that brings together Antonio Pig Pigafetta’s late‑16th‑century…
ReadSouth Africa and the Transvaal War, Vol. 6 (of 8) From the Occupation of Pretoria to Mr. Kruger's Departure from South Africa, with a Summarised Account of the Guerilla War to March 1901
Louis Creswicke
Louis Creswicke’s sixth volume in his eight‑part series on the South African and Transvaal War is a detailed…
Ireland as it is, and as it would be under Home Rule
Robert John Buckley
Robert John Buckley’s Ireland as it is, and as it would be under Home Rule is a contemporary report by the…
ReadSouth Africa and the Boer-British War, Volume I Comprising a History of South Africa and its people, including the war of 1899 and 1900
Hopkins, J. Castell (John Castell); Halstead, Murat
South Africa and the Boer‑British War, Volume I is a sweeping historical survey that begins by positioning…
ReadNarrative of travels and discoveries in Northern and Central Africa, in the years 1822, 1823, and 1824
Denham, Dixon; Clapperton, Hugh; Oudney, Walter
The work is a first‑hand travel narrative chronicling the 1822‑24 British expedition into the interior of…
A Handbook of the Boer War With General Map of South Africa and 18 Sketch Maps and Plans
This volume is a scholarly handbook on the South African (Boer) War of 1899‑1902, complete with a general map…
ReadThe History of the Indian Revolt and of the Expeditions to Persia, China and Japan, 1856-7-8
George Dodd
George Dodd’s work is a comprehensive chronicle of the Indian mutiny of 1857‑58, framed within the wider…
ReadTravels and discoveries in North and Central Africa, Vol. 1 (of 5): being a journal of an expedition undertaken under the auspices of H.B.M.'s Government, in the years 1849-1855
Heinrich Barth
This work is the first volume of a five‑part journal documenting Heinrich Barth’s expedition through North…
ReadThe Cotton Kingdom, volume 2 (of 2): A traveller's observations on cotton and slavery in the American Slave States
Frederick Law Olmsted
Frederick Law Olmsted’s second volume of The Cotton Kingdom is a travelogue that doubles as a socioeconomic…
ReadThe Panama Canal
Frederic J. Haskin
The book is a straightforward, nonfiction account aimed at “the layman” that chronicles the Panama Canal from…
Copyright: Its History and Its Law
R. R. Bowker
The work is a scholarly survey of copyright law as it stood in the early twentieth century, written by…
ReadThe red terror in Russia
S. P. Melʹgunov
The work is a first‑hand chronicle of the Red Terror written by Sergeĭ Petrovich Melʹgunov, a…
ReadThe Sovereignty of the Sea An Historical Account of the Claims of England to the Dominion of the British Seas, and of the Evolution of the Territorial Waters
Thomas Wemyss Fulton
Thomas Wemyss Fulton’s work is a scholarly survey of England’s historic claims to maritime sovereignty,…
ReadThe Great Conspiracy, Complete
John Alexander Logan
Logan’s The Great Conspiracy Complete is a sweeping historical study that treats the Civil War era as a…
ReadVoyage to the East Indies
a S. Bartholomaeo Paulinus
This work is a detailed travelogue by Fra Paolino da San Bartolomeo, a Carmelite who spent thirteen years in…
ReadTwenty-five years in the Secret Service: The recollections of a spy
Henri Le Caron
Henri Le Caron’s memoir presents a self‑styled chronicle of a half‑century spent in the shadowy world of…