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  • How Britannia Came to Rule the Waves

    The Growth of the British Navy Told for the Young

    by William Henry Giles Kingston ...
    How a small island came to hold the sea: Alfred's ships, the Armada, Blake and the Dutch wars, Rodney, Nelson and the ironclads, told for boys by a novelist who spent his life writing about the sea. Kingston wrote over a hundred books and edited a boys' magazine; the naval detail here is his stock in trade. The chapters on the press-gang and prize money are unusually frank for a patriotic history. ... Read more

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  • The Knights of the Round Table

    Stories of King Arthur and the Holy Grail

    by William Henry Frost ...
    Illustrated by Sydney Richmond Burleigh ...
    An American uncle takes his niece to England and tells her the Arthurian legend where each of the events is supposed to have happened — Camelot, Glastonbury, Tintagel, the Scilly Isles. William Henry Frost wrote several such books, half travel and half retelling. The device works better than it should: the tale is Malory's and the landscape is real. Fifty-four plates after painters including ... Read more

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  • Legendary Islands of the Atlantic

    A Study in Medieval Geography

    by William Henry Babcock ...
    The islands that appeared on medieval charts and were sailed for in earnest - Antillia, Saint Brendan's Isle, Brasil, the Isle of Seven Cities - and what may have been behind each. Babcock treats them as a geographer, not a romancer. This edition adds a gallery of 58 plates after Turner, Aivazovsky and Church, and 26 restored and coloured in-text illustrations. ... Read more

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  • Green Mansions

    A Romance of the Tropical Forest

    by William Henry Hudson ...
    Green Mansions: A Romance of the Tropical Forest is an exotic romance by the British-Argentine naturalist William Henry Hudson (1841–1922).The story tells of a traveller to the Guyana jungle of southeastern Venezuela and his encounter with a forest dwelling girl named Rima. As a primary theme, the novel explores the potential damage inherent in contact between European and indigenous cultures ... Read more

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  • Green Mansions

    A Romance of the Tropical Forest

    by William Henry Hudson ...
    Green Mansions follows Abel, a young Venezuelan revolutionary who escapes into the remote Guyana jungle and meets Rima, a mysterious girl who lives in harmony with the forest and speaks the language of birds. As love grows between them, Abel learns of Rima’s search for her origins among a lost people. Their journey through the wild reveals beauty, danger, and the tragic cost of a world unable to ... Read more

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  • The Secret Of The Island. Illustrated (Mobi Classics)

    by Jules Verne,William Henry Giles Kingston (Translator) ...
    It was now two years and a half since the castaways from the balloon had been thrown on Lincoln Island, and during that period there had been no communication between them and their fellow-creatures. Once the reporter had attempted to communicate with the inhabited world by confiding to a bird a letter which contained the secret of their situation, but that was a chance on which it was impossible ... Read more

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  • The Story of Nelson

    by William Henry Giles Kingston ...
    "The Story of Nelson" chronicles the life and achievements of Horatio Nelson, one of Britain's most famous naval heroes. Nelson played a crucial role in the Napoleonic Wars, particularly during the Battle of Trafalgar, where he led the British Royal Navy to victory against the combined French and Spanish fleets but tragically lost his life in the process.In this biography, Kingston likely recounts ... Read more

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  • The Young Llanero: A Story of War and Wild Life in Venezuela

    by William Henry Giles Kingston ...
    The story likely follows the adventures of a young protagonist living in Venezuela, a region known for its vast plains called llanos and its rich biodiversity. Against the backdrop of the Venezuelan landscape, the protagonist likely experiences various adventures involving encounters with wild animals, exploration of the wilderness, and perhaps even involvement in conflicts or wars that were ... Read more

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  • Waihoura, the Maori Girl

    by William Henry Giles Kingston ...
    The story begins with Waihoura's upbringing in a Maori village, where she experiences the traditions, customs, and way of life of her people. As she grows older, Waihoura becomes increasingly curious about the world beyond her village and dreams of exploring the lands inhabited by the Pakeha (European settlers).Waihoura's journey takes her through various adventures and encounters with both Maori ... Read more

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  • The Complete Harvard Classics - All 51 Volumes in One Edition

    A One-Volume Great Books Library of World Literature, Philosophy, History, Science, and Drama

    by Plato, Marcus Aurelius, William Shakespeare, Benjamin Franklin, Homer, Friedrich von Schiller, William Makepeace Thackeray, John Ruskin, Robert Louis Stevenson, Edgar Alan Poe, Henry David Thoreau, Voltaire, Jean Jacques Rousseau, Immanuel Kant, Thomas Hobbes, John Woolman, William Penn, Epictetus, Francis Bacon, John Milton, Thomas Browne, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Robert Burns, Saint Augustine, Thomas à Kempis, Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Aristophanes, Marcus Tullius Cicero, Pliny the Younger, Adam Smith, Charles Darwin, Plutarch, Virgil, Miguel de Cervantes, John Bunyan, Izaak Walton, Aesop, Wilhelm Grimm, Jacob Grimm, Hans Christian Andersen, John Dryden, Richard Brinsley Sheridan, David Garrick, Oliver Goldsmith, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Robert Browning, George Gordon Byron, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Christopher Marlowe, Dante Alighieri, Alessandro Manzoni, Richard Henry Dana, Edmund Burke, John Stuart Mill, Thomas Carlyle, Pedro Calderón de la Barca, Pierre Corneille, Jean Racine, Molière, Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, Philip Sidney, Ben Jonson, Abraham Cowley, Joseph Addison, Richard Steele, Jonathan Swift, Daniel Defoe, Samuel Johnson, David Hume, Sydney Smith, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, William Hazlitt, Leigh Hunt, Charles Lamb, Thomas De Quincey, Thomas Babington Macaulay, James Russell Lowell, Michael Faraday, Hermann Ludwig Ferdinand von Helmholtz, Simon Newcomb, Archibald Geikie, Benvenuto Cellini, Michel de Montaigne, Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve, Ernest Renan, Giuseppe Mazzini, Herodotus, Tacitus, Francis Drake, Philip Nichols, Francis Pretty, Walter Bigges, Edward Haies, Walter Raleigh, René Descartes, Jean Froissart, Thomas Malory, William Henry Harrison, Niccolo Machiavelli, William Roper, Thomas More, Martin Luther, John Locke, George Berkeley, Hippocrates, Ambroise Paré, William Harvey, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Joseph Lister, Louis Pasteur, Thomas Dekker, Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher, John Webster, Philip Massinger, Blaise Pascal, William A. Neilson ...
    The Complete Harvard Classics gathers fifty-one volumes of Western writing into an ambitious portable canon, spanning epic, tragedy, philosophy, political theory, devotional prose, scientific inquiry, history, fiction, and essay. Ancient dialogues and dramas stand beside Renaissance humanism, Enlightenment argument, Romantic lyricism, Victorian criticism, and foundational scientific writing. Its ... Read more

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  • The Complete Harvard Classics - ALL 71 Volumes

    The Five Foot Shelf & The Shelf of Fiction: The Famous Anthology of the Greatest Works of World Literature

    by Benjamin Franklin, John Woolman, William Penn, Plato, Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius, Francis Bacon, John Milton, Thomas Browne, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Robert Burns, Saint Augustine, Thomas à Kempis, Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Aristophanes, Marcus Tullius Cicero, Pliny the Younger, Adam Smith, Charles Darwin, Plutarch, Virgil, Miguel de Cervantes, John Bunyan, Izaak Walton, Aesop, Wilhelm Grimm, Jacob Grimm, Hans Christian Andersen, John Dryden, Richard Brinsley Sheridan, David Garrick, Oliver Goldsmith, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Robert Browning, George Gordon Byron, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Christopher Marlowe, Dante Alighieri, Alessandro Manzoni, Homer, Richard Henry Dana, Edmund Burke, John Stuart Mill, Thomas Carlyle, Pedro Calderón de la Barca, Pierre Corneille, Jean Racine, Molière, Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, Friedrich von Schiller, Philip Sidney, Ben Jonson, Abraham Cowley, Joseph Addison, Richard Steele, Jonathan Swift, Daniel Defoe, Samuel Johnson, Sydney Smith, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, William Hazlitt, Leigh Hunt, Charles Lamb, Thomas De Quincey, Thomas Babington Macaulay, William Makepeace Thackeray, John Ruskin, Robert Louis Stevenson, Edgar Alan Poe, Henry David Thoreau, James Russell Lowell, Michael Faraday, Hermann Ludwig Ferdinand von Helmholtz, Simon Newcomb, Archibald Geikie, Benvenuto Cellini, Michel de Montaigne, Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve, Ernest Renan, Immanuel Kant, Giuseppe Mazzini, Herodotus, Tacitus, Francis Drake, Philip Nichols, Francis Pretty, Walter Bigges, Edward Haies, Walter Raleigh, René Descartes, Voltaire, Jean Jacques Rousseau, Thomas Hobbes, Jean Froissart, Thomas Malory, William Henry Harrison, Niccolo Machiavelli, William Roper, Thomas More, Martin Luther, John Locke, George Berkeley, Hippocrates, Ambroise Paré, William Harvey, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Joseph Lister, Louis Pasteur, William Shakespeare, Thomas Dekker, Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher, John Webster, Philip Massinger, Blaise Pascal, Charles W. Eliot, William A. Neilson, Henry Fielding, Laurence Sterne, Jane Austen, Walter Scott, Charles Dickens, George Eliot, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Washington Irving, Bret Harte, Mark Twain, Edward Everett Hale, Henry James, Victor Hugo, Honoré Balzac, George Sand, Alfred de Musset, Alphonse Daudet, Gottfried Keller, Guy de Maupassant, Theodor Storm, Theodor Fontane, Leo Tolstoy, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Ivan Turgenev, Juan Valera, Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson, Alexander L. Kielland ...
    The original Harvard Classics Collection contains 51 volumes of the essential works of world literature, showing the progress of man from antics to modern age. In this edition, the original collection is supplemented with the 20 volume Harvard Shelf of Fiction, a selection of the greatest works of fiction. Content: The Harvard Classics: V. 1: Franklin, Woolman & Penn V. 2: Plato, Epictetus & ... Read more

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  • The Purple Land

    by William Henry Hudson ...
    First published in 1885, "The Purple Land" is a novel by Argentinian naturalist and author William Henry Hudson. It tells the story of a young Englishman called Richard Lamb who elopes with a teenage Argentinian girl to Uruguay. Once there, Lamb sets off to find work, but instead finds himself at the centre of an epic adventure. This exciting and beautifully-written page-turner is not to be missed ... Read more

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