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Little Wars
by H. G. WellsH. G. Wells Little Wars is a book of game with set of rules followed by his earlier work Floor Games. While it will be more interesting to play it as a game, the real war is the worst artificial calamities which can be avoided by mankind. While the elementary level of the game is simple rules of movement and firing with set timings, an extension of..
Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes
by Robert Louis StevensonIn an attempt to distance himself from an affair with American woman and to explore materials for his publications, Stevenson traveled in the mountains of south-western France with Modestine, a Donkey as his companion. This classic outdoor literature Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes was the first to mention about sleeping bags. Though the Ceve..
An Inland Voyage
by Robert Louis StevensonStevenson narrates his travel through Belgium, France in his travel literature An Inland Voyage. Sir Walter Grindlay Simpson, a friend of Stevenson was a companion in the travel and both of them had to face many hurdles including getting a jail term. Along-with An Inland Voyage, he wrote many such works like Travels with a Donkey in the Céven..
The Great Navigators of the Eighteenth Century
by Jules VerneThe Great Explorers of the Nineteenth Century is second volume of Jules Verne non-fiction series Celebrated Travels and Travellers. Written in two parts, Part I details Astronomers and Cartographers, Voyages of 18th century, Captain Cook's Predecessors and three Voyages of Captain Cook. Part II details French,African, American and Asian explorers...
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..