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Highways of Canadian Literature

Logan, J. D. (John Daniel); French, Donald G.

Highways of Canadian Literature is a scholarly survey that traces the development of English‑language writing…

Australia Twice Traversed The Romance of Exploration, Being a Narrative Compiled from the Journals of Five Exploring Expeditions into and Through Central South Australia and Western Australia, from 1872 to 1876

Ernest Giles

In Northern Mists: Arctic Exploration in Early Times (Volume 1 of 2)

Fridtjof Nansen

Fridtjof Nansen’s In Northern Mists is a scholarly survey of Arctic discovery that begins with a personal…

The Englishman in China During the Victorian Era, Vol. 1 (of 2) As Illustrated in the Career of Sir Rutherford Alcock, K.C.B., D.C.L., Many Years Consul and Minister in China and Japan

Alexander Michie

The work is a biographical‑historical study of Sir Rutherford Alcock, the long‑serving British consul and…

The North-West Amazons: Notes of some months spent among cannibal tribes

Thomas Whiffen

Thomas Whiffen’s work is a first‑person ethnographic record of a two‑year sojourn (1908‑1909) in the upper…

The Magic and Science of Jewels and Stones

Isidore Kozminsky

The book presents itself as a scholarly synthesis of modern mineral science and the ancient occult traditions…

Pioneers of Science

Sir Oliver Lodge

Oliver Lodge’s Pioneers of Science is a scholarly survey that strings together a series of concise lectures…

Church and State as Seen in the Formation of Christendom

T. W. Allies

The work is a scholarly treatise on the development of Christianity’s institutional relationship with secular…

The Story of Alchemy and the Beginnings of Chemistry

M. M. Pattison Muir

Something about sugar: Its history, growth, manufacture and distribution

George M. Rolph

An Historical Journal of the Transactions at Port Jackson and Norfolk Island

John Hunter

This work is a detailed journal of the early British settlement efforts in New South Wales, compiled by John…

The History of Korea (vol. 1 of 2)

Homer B. Hulbert

The work is a scholarly survey of Korean history written by Homer B.

Journal of a Voyage to Brazil And Residence There During Part of the Years 1821, 1822, 1823

Lady Maria Callcott

The work is a first‑person travel journal by Lady Maria Callcott, written during her three‑year stay in…

Illuminated Manuscripts

John William Bradley

Bradley’s Illuminated Manuscripts is a scholarly survey of the decorative arts that adorn medieval and…

Ti-Ping Tien-Kwoh: The History of the Ti-Ping Revolution (Volume I)

Augustus F. Lindley

Augustus F. Lindley’s work is a sprawling, first‑hand chronicle of the Taiping Rebellion, framed as both a…

History of Phosphorus

Eduard Farber

The work is a scholarly monograph issued as part of the United States National Museum’s “Contributions from…

The Destiny of the Soul: A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life

William Rounseville Alger

William Rounseville Alger’s The Destiny of the Soul offers a sweeping, scholarly survey of how Christian…

Spanish Explorers in the Southern United States, 1528-1543. The Narrative of Alvar Nunez Cabeca de Vaca. The Narrative of the Expedition of Hernando De Soto by the Gentleman of Elvas

Núñez Cabeza de Vaca, Alvar, active 16th century; Castañeda de Nájera, Pedro de, active 16th century; Knight of Elvas

Life and works of Alexander Csoma de Körös: A biography compiled chiefly from hitherto unpublished data

Tivadar Duka

The work is a scholarly biography of Alexander Csoma de Körös, compiled by Tivadar Duka from a mixture of…

Ten Years' Captivity in the Mahdi's Camp 1882-1892

Ohrwalder, Josef; Wingate, F. R. (Francis Reginald), Sir

The work is a first‑hand account of Father Josef Ohrwalder’s ten‑year imprisonment among the followers of the…

The History of Cuba, vol. 4

Willis Fletcher Johnson

The History of Cuba, vol. 4 is a scholarly survey that continues the author’s systematic chronicle of the…

The River War: An Account of the Reconquest of the Sudan

Winston Churchill

The work is a nineteenth‑century historical narrative that treats the Sudanese campaigns of 1881‑1899 as a…

History of the Conquest of Mexico; Vol. 1/4

William Hickling Prescott

William Hickling Prescott’s History of the Conquest of Mexico is a nineteenth‑century scholarly narrative…

The historians' history of the world in twenty-five volumes, volume 02: Israel, India, Persia, Phoenicia, Minor Nations of Western Asia

This volume of The Historians’ History of the World is a scholarly compendium that treats Israel, India,…