Non-fiction Books

The Lake Regions of Central Africa - A Picture of Exploration, Vol. 1

Sir Richard Francis Burton

I had intended this record of personal adventure to appear immediately after my return to Europe, in May 1859. The impaired health, the depression of spirits, and worse still the annoyance of official..

Automatic finger control

Anonymous

A Scientific Method that gets at the very foundation of Musical Skill. Discloses fully the secrets that make it possible to learn to play any instrument easily and quickly. Taught only by the U. S. Sc..

The Lake Regions of Central Africa - A Picture of Exploration, Vol. 2

Sir Richard Francis Burton

The moisture-bearing wind in this part of Africa is the fixed south-east trade, deflected, as in the great valley of the Mississippi and in the island of Ceylon, into a periodical south-west monsoon. ..

The Girl's Own Paper, Vol. VIII, No. 375, March 5, 1887

Various Authors

OF the thousand and one ills—the word “one” signifying “all the rest”—that afflict humanity, young and old, by far the larger proportion are what may be called chronic troubles. And I do not refer to ..

Coasting Bohemia

J. Comyns Carr

The papers which compose this volume make no claim to any sort of ordered plan in their composition. They reflect in some measure the varied activities of a life that has been passed in close associat..

Captain Bill McDonald

Albert Bigelow Paine

Captain Bill McDonald is a name that in Texas and the districts lying adjacent thereto makes the pulse of a good citizen, and the feet of an outlaw, move quicker. It is the story of this man that..

Hilaire Belloc - No Alienated Man

Frederick Wilhelmsen

If Belloc is almost completely incomprehensible to the post-war intellectual (even the post-war Catholic intellectual), the lack of understanding can be traced to the amazing personal integration of t..

My Diary - North and South (vol. 1 of 2)

William Howard Russell

A book which needs apologies ought never to have been written. This is a canon of criticism so universally accepted, that authors have abstained of late days from attempting to disarm hostility by con..