Travel Books
South Africa; vol II
Anthony TrollopeThe farmers’ houses generally consisted of two main rooms, with probably some small excrescence which would serve some of the family as a sleeping apartment. In the living room there would be a fire-p..
The Canary Islands
Florence Du CanePossibly there are many other people as ignorant as I was myself on my first visit to the Canaries on the subject of cochineal. Beyond the fact that cochineal was a red dye and used occasionally as a ..
Travels into Bokhara (Volume 3 of 3)
Sir Alexander BurnesIn the year 1830, I entered the desert, accompanied by Lieut. James Holland, of the Quartermaster-general’s department, an officer ably qualified to assist me. After reaching Jaysulmeer, we were overt..
Mammoth Hot Springs Area
AnonymousThe Mammoth Terraces are continuously changing. Had you visited the area in the 1930’s, you would have found Blue Spring, Cleopatra, and Angel Terraces to be the feature attractions. Today they stand ..
Canada; its Defences, Condition, and Resources
William Howard RussellWhat is to become of the existing Governments of Provinces? How regulate the contentions which may arise between Provincial Parliaments and Provincial Ministers and Provincial Governors by the action ..
The Passing of Morocco
Frederick F. MooreIt was not, however, till July of last year that events assumed sufficient importance to make it worth the while of a correspondent to go to Morocco. Then, as fortune would have it, when the news came..
My Home in the Alps
Alice Le BlondIn this little volume, much of the matter in which first appeared in the St. Moritz Post, or, as it is now called, the Alpine Post. It thus seems to me that a small book, dealing with some of the vari..
Siberia To-Day
Frederick F. MooreThis is not a “war book,” nor an account of thrilling deeds, nor a history of our expedition in Siberia, but a book in which I have attempted to bring to the public a realization of the difficulties u..