History Books

The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio

Giovanni Boccaccio

A kindly thing it is to have compassion of the afflicted and albeit it well beseemeth every one, yet of those is it more particularly required who have erst had need of comfort and have found it in an..

Minnesota and Dacotah

C. C. Andrews

Introduction by Author:THE object of publishing these letters can be very briefly stated.During the last autumn I made a tour into Minnesota, upwards of a hundred and thirty miles north-west of St. Pa..

Australia Twice Traversed

Ernest Giles

Australia Twice TraversedThe Romance of Exploration, Being a Narrative Compiled from the Journals of Five Exploring Expeditions into and Through Central South Australia and Western Australia, from 187..

Luck, or Cunning, as the Main Means of Organic Modification

Samuel Butler

This second edition of Luck, or Cunning? is a reprint of the first edition, dated 1887, but actually published in November, 1886.  The only alterations of any consequence are in the Index, which ..

Narrative of an Expedition into Central Australia

Charles Sturt

Narrative of an Expedition into Central AustraliaPerformed Under the Authority of Her Majesty's Government, During the Years 1844, 5, and 6, Together With A Notice of the Province of South Australia i..

The Natural History of Wiltshire

John Aubrey

IN the "Memoir of John Aubrey", published by the Wiltshire Topographical Society in 1845, I expressed a wish that the "NATURAL HISTORY of WILTSHIRE", the most important of that author's unpublished ma..

Zone Policeman 88

Harry Alverson Franck

Zone Policeman 88, is a Close Range Study of the Panama Canal and its Workers written by Harry A. Franck, who is also the author of  "A Vagabond Journey Around the World" and "Four Months Afoot i..

Young Folks' History of England

Charlotte M. Yonge

Nearly two thousand years ago there was a brave captain whose name was Julius Cæsar. The soldiers he led to battle were very strong, and conquered the people wherever they went. They had no gun or gun..