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The Great Explorers of the Nineteenth Century
by Jules VerneThe Great Navigators of the Eighteenth Century is the third volume of Jules Verne non-fiction series Celebrated Travels and Travellers. Written in two parts with chapters titled as The Dawn of a Century of Discovery, The Exploration And Colonization Of Africa, The Oriental Scientific Movement And American Discoveries...
The Coming of the Fairies
by Arthur Conan DoyleThe Coming of the Fairies is a collection of short stories by Arthur Conan Doyle. This book contains reproductions of the famous Cottingley photographs, and gives the whole of the evidence in connection with them. The diligent reader is in almost as good a position as I am to form a judgment upon the authenticity of the pictures. This nar..
The Book of Husbandry
by Anthony FitzherbertOne question of chief interest respecting the volume here printed is—who was the author? We know that his name was “Mayster Fitzherbarde” (see p. 125), and the question that has to be settled is simply this—may we identify him with Sir Anthony Fitzherbert, judge of the Common Pleas, the author of the Grand Abridgment of the Common Law, the New Natu..
The Frozen North
by Richard MaydeAs we travel northward, leaving the sunny lands of the temperate zone, we come after a time to mighty and seemingly endless forests of pines and firs. Mile after mile, they stretch away in a lonely silence. The wintry gale that rages among them is answered only by the howl of the wolf, while a few bears, reindeer, and the arctic fox, alone of anima..
Sacred Mysteries Among the Mayas and the Quiches, 11,500 Years Ago
by Le PlongeonThere are authors who attribute the origin of modern Free Masonry to the followers of Pythagoras, because some of the speculations of that Philosopher concerning the meaning of the numbers are to be found in the esoteric doctrines taught in the masonic lodges. Others, on account of the Christian symbols that have been incorporated in the decoration..
The Sufferings and Escape of Capt. Chas. H. Brown From an Awful Imprisonment
by Chilian ConvictsThe preface to a book is very often nothing more than a respectable cloak, allowed by the conventionalities of literature, in which an author may wrap his excuses and apologies for troubling the public with his lucubrations. This dressing up of excuses in order to introduce them into notice under another name, is a thing so tempting to poor human n..
Kelly of the Foreign Legion
by Russell A. KellyThe first seven chapters of this book are letters received from Russell A. Kelly, age 21, volunteer in the Légion étrangère. The letters, many of which were published in the New York Evening Sun, were sent to his parents in New York and have been retained in exactly their original form except for the omission of strictly personal matters. The last ..
Jane Eyre - An Autobiography
by Charlotte BronteJane Eyre: An Autobiography is a novel by English writer Charlotte Bronte. It was published on 16 October 1847, by Smith, Elder & Co. of London, England, under the pen name "Currer Bell". The first American edition was published the following year by Harper & Brothers of New York. Primarily of the Bildungsroman genre, Jane Eyre follows the ..