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  • With the 'Die-Hards' in Siberia (Esprios Classics)
    John Ward
    Lieutenant-Colonel John Ward CB CMG (21 November 1866 - 19 December 1934) was an English Liberal Party politician, trade union leader and soldier. In 1889, Ward founded the Navvies, Bricklayers’ Labourers and General Labourers’ Union, and continued to serve as its general secretary throughout its existence. He was also a co-founder of the short-lived National Federation of Labo...
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    23,71 €

  • Gleams of Sunshine (Esprios Classics)
    Joseph Horatio Chant
    Father of Universal Man,Where’er in this wide world he roam,Not known to thee by kith or clan,Nor height, nor breadth of mental dome,Nor babbling tongue, nor sounding creed,But by his woe and common need.The pushing Anglo-Saxon race,The Celts with wealth of heart and mind,The Esquimaux of leaden face,The Arabs whom no chain can bind,With hardy Boers and all the rest,Are with on...
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    20,62 €

  • From the Rapidan to Richmond and the Spottsylvania Campaign (Esprios Classics)
    William Meade Dame
    'From Orange Court House, Virginia, the road running northeast into Culpeper crosses Morton’s Ford of the Rapidan River, which, in December, 1863, lay between the 'Federal Army of the Potomac' and the 'Confederate Army of Northern Virginia.' The Ford is nineteen miles from Orange Court House.' ...
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    20,61 €

  • Dreams and Dust (Esprios Classics)
    Don Marquis
    Donald Robert Perry Marquis (July 29, 1878 - December 29, 1937) was an American humorist, journalist, and author. He was variously a novelist, poet, newspaper columnist, and playwright. He is remembered best for creating the characters Archy and Mehitabel, supposed authors of humorous verse. During his lifetime he was equally famous for creating another fictitious character, 't...
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    19,67 €

  • The Peace of Roaring River (Esprios Classics)
    George van Schaick
    'To the village of Carcajou came a young man in the spring. The last patches of snow were disappearing from under the protecting fronds of trees bursting into new leaf. From the surface of the lakes the heavy ice had melted and broken, and still lay in shattered piles on the lee shores. Black-headed chickadees, a robin or two, and finally swallows had appeared, following the we...
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    22,93 €

  • Northern Travel (Esprios Classics)
    Bayard Taylor
    Bayard Taylor (January 11, 1825 - December 19, 1878) was an American poet, literary critic, translator, travel author, and diplomat. At the age of seventeen, he was apprenticed to a printer in West Chester. The influential critic and editor Rufus Wilmot Griswold encouraged him to write poetry. The volume that resulted, Ximena, or the Battle of the Sierra Morena, and other Poems...
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    27,46 €

  • Marguerite de Roberval (Esprios Classics)
    Thomas Guthrie Marquis
    Thomas Guthrie Marquis (July 7, 1864-April 1, 1936) was a Canadian historian. Marquis was born in Chatham, New Brunswick. His parents were Hugh P. Marquis and Mary McIndoe. His father was employed in the shipbuilding industry. He attended school in Chatham but at age 16 he went to Queen’s University, Kingston, where he graduated in 1889. He became a teacher, but he retired in 1...
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    22,95 €

  • 'Bones' (Esprios Classics)
    Edgar Wallace
    Richard Horatio Edgar Wallace (1 April 1875 - 10 February 1932) was an English writer. He joined the army at age 21 and was a war correspondent during the Second Boer War, for Reuters and the Daily Mail. Struggling with debt, he left South Africa, returned to London, and began writing thrillers to raise income, publishing books including The Four Just Men (1905). Drawing on his...
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    23,68 €

  • Travels in the United States of America (Esprios Classics)
    William Priest
    'I cannot intrude this volume on the public without informing them, what all my friends will vouch for the truth of, viz. - that on my return from America, in 1797, I wrote the work in its present form for their perusal; and, that conscious of my want of talent as a writer, I resisted all their entreaties for its publication, till within these three months. The public, I presum...
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    19,86 €

  • The Colonial Mortuary Bard, Reo, and The Flemmings and 'Flash Harry' of Savait (Esprios Classics)
    Louis Becke
    George Lewis Becke (or Louis Becke; 18 June 1855 - 18 February 1913) was an Australian Pacific trader, short story writer and novelist. In January 1892 Becke returned to Sydney and persuaded by Ernest Favenc and J. F. Archibald began to contribute stories to The Bulletin, the first of which was ’Tis in the Blood appearing in the edition of 6 May 1893. A collection of these stor...
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    18,22 €

  • Tom Gerrard (Esprios Classics)
    Louis Becke
    George Lewis Becke (or Louis Becke; 18 June 1855 - 18 February 1913) was an Australian Pacific trader, short story writer and novelist. In January 1892 Becke returned to Sydney and persuaded by Ernest Favenc and J. F. Archibald began to contribute stories to The Bulletin, the first of which was ’Tis in the Blood appearing in the edition of 6 May 1893. A collection of these stor...
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    22,92 €

  • The Love Affairs of an Old Maid (Esprios Classics)
    Lilian Bell
    Lilian Lida Bell (pen name, Mrs. Arthur Hoyt Bogue; 1867-1929) was an American novelist and travel writer. Her works included At Home with Jardines, Hope Loring, Abroad with the Jimmies, The Interference of Patricia, A Book of Girls, and The Lilian Bell Birthday Book. In addition to her novels, Bell was a travel writer. Her first book of fiction was 'The Love Affairs of an Old ...
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    19,90 €

  • Jonah (Esprios Classics)
    Louis Stone
    Louis Stone (21 October 1871 - 23 September 1935) was an Australian novelist and playwright. Around 1908 Stone married Abigail Allen and also began to write a novel Jonah, published in London in 1911. According to Geoffrey Dutton, Stone was intimately familiar with the setting for Jonah, spending time in Waterloo and Paddy’s market, studying the local larrikins and their speech...
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    23,67 €

  • Philippine, Visayan and Tagalog Folk-Tales, and Bagobo Myths (Esprios Classics)
    Various
    'One day Truth started for the city to find some work. On his way he overtook Falsehood, who was going to the city for the same purpose. Falsehood asked permission to ride on the horse with Truth, and his request was granted.On the way they questioned each other as to the sort of work they wanted. Truth stated that he intended to be a secretary, so that he might always be clean...
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    22,91 €

  • A Collection of Old English Plays, Volume I (Esprios Classics)
    A. H. Bullen / AHBullen
    Arthur Henry Bullen, often known as A. H. Bullen, (9 February 1857, London - 29 February 1920, Stratford-on-Avon) was an English editor and publisher, a specialist in 16th and 17th century literature, and founder of the Shakespeare Head Press, which for its first decades was a publisher of fine editions in the tradition of the Kelmscott Press. His father George Bullen (d. 1894)...
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    27,41 €

  • Mortal Coils (Esprios Classics)
    Aldous Huxley
    Aldous Leonard Huxley (26 July 1894 - 22 November 1963) was an English writer and philosopher. He wrote nearly fifty books-both novels and non-fiction works-as well as wide-ranging essays, narratives, and poems. Born into the prominent Huxley family, he graduated from Balliol College, Oxford with an undergraduate degree in English literature. Early in his career, he published s...
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    20,62 €

  • Botswana Administrative System and Governance
    Barric Molefe
    Botswana Administrative System and Governance. The British established a protectorate in the southern part of Tswana territory in 1884 (British Bechuanaland) and over the northern territories (Bechuanaland Protectorate) in 1885. In the Protectorate, at first missionaries were appointed as Assistant Commissioners, but later on English-speaking South Africans with police or cleri...
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    36,08 €

  • South Africa
    Edward Simpson
    South Africa. The Knowing of South Africa, Apartheid period, Culture and History. Blending Western technology with indigenous technology, Western traditions with African and Asian traditions, South Africa is a study in contrasts. It also provides lessons in how cultures can sometimes blend, sometimes collide; for example, within a short distance of one another can be found the ...
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    35,76 €

  • History of Uruguay, from Early Columbian times to the Conquest
    Brandon Bell
    History of Uruguay, from Early Columbian times to the Conquest. 1811-20, The Great War, Artigas’s Revolution, 1843-52, The Society, The Government, Economy, Culture, Tourism. URUGUAY WAS ONCE KNOWN as the 'Switzerland of South America' as a result of its relative governmental stability, advanced level of economic development, and social peace. Indeed, in the creation of a welfa...
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    35,88 €

  • Namibia
    Edward Simpson
    Namibia. Outlooks, Environment, Governance, Economy, People, Culture, Ethnic tolerant. From 1945 the economy of South West Africa grew rapidly, reaching a peak of more than one thousand per capita (twenty,000 for Europeans and one hundred and fifty for black Namibians) in the late 1ninteen seventies. The pillars were base metal expansion at better prices and sharply increased o...
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    34,96 €

  • Oman History
    Elliott Miller
    Oman History. The Politics, The, Society, Government, Economy, Religion, Travel Guide. According to archaeologists, warfare was a common activity 5,000 years ago among the peoples of the area of the Middle East that in modern times became Iran, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, and the smaller gulf states. Intermittent hostilities, often based on rivalries between the Persians of the eastern...
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    36,24 €

  • Ivory Coast Political History
    Ryan Kelly
    Ivory Coast Political History. Art, Culture, Ethnic groups and Settlement. Central-West Côte d’Ivoire is a lush agricultural landscape, stuffed with rich banana, rice, and cocoa fields. The region is this West African nation’s equivalent of the corn belt of Iowa and Illinois. A long drive down stretches of road left pockmarked by the ongoing rainy season yields endless repetiti...
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    37,12 €

  • Aleutian Islands and Aleut Settlement, a History
    Blake Bell
    Aleutian Islands and Aleut Settlement, a History After the war, William S. Laughlin began a multi-year, interdisciplinary program on Umnak Island. About the same time. Bank II began surveying and testing sites all along the Aleutian chain. The late 1960s and early 1970s saw a flurry of excavation activity on Akun, Atka, and Amchitka. Since the 1970s archeological work in the...
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    36,28 €

  • La Presa Issue 9
    Lee Gould editor
    LA PRESA, published by Embajadoras Press, is a literary journal of poetry and short fiction, articles, essays, and other prose genres, in English and Spanish, by writers from Latin America, Canada, and the USA ...
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    7,20 €

  • Mandukya Upanishad
    Ashwini Kumar Aggarwal
    Upanishads are verses from the Vedas that have been compiled as independent and complete sets. Traditionally the verses in each Veda have been classified as Chanting portion and Analysis portion. Within the Analysis portion, a further sub-classification of verses has been done, namely Discussion, Research, Essential thought or guiding principle.This book gives a mathematical pi...
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    25,75 €

  • Chinese Sketches (Esprios Classics)
    Herbert A. Giles / Herbert AGiles
    Herbert Allen Giles (8 December 1845 - 13 February 1935) was a British diplomat and sinologist who was the professor of Chinese at Cambridge University for 35 years. Giles was educated at Charterhouse School before becoming a British diplomat in China. He modified a Mandarin Chinese romanisation system established by Thomas Wade, resulting in the widely known Wade-Giles Chinese...
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    20,61 €

  • A Gentleman Vagabond and Some Others (Esprios Classics)
    F. Hopkinson Smith / FHopkinson Smith
    Francis Hopkinson Smith (October 23, 1838 - April 7, 1915) was a United States author, artist and engineer. He built the foundation for the Statue of Liberty, wrote many famous stories and received awards for his paintings. Smith was born in Baltimore, Maryland, a descendant of Francis Hopkinson, one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence. He graduated from the Boys’...
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    19,86 €

  • Madagascar Culture and Art
    Finlay Rogers
    Madagascar Culture and Art. Travel Guide, Tourism, Settlement, History, Tradition. The people of Madagascar share one culture and language even though the Malagasy people are divided into 18 tribes whose boundaries are based on old kingdoms rather than ethnic characteristics. Most Malagasy are of mixed race, but some, such as the Merina from the Antananarivo area, are predomina...
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    34,83 €

  • Kenya Art and Culture, a History
    Ryan Kelly
    Kenya Art and Culture, a History. The People, Economy, Government and Politics. Today there are around 42 different tribes in Kenya, with varying cultural identities and traditions that have, in some cases, become intertwined over time due to similarities in language and a sharing of the same environment. Visitors to Kenya have the unique opportunity to spend days in the homes ...
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    36,06 €

  • Penelope’s Experiences in Scotland (Esprios Classics)
    Kate Douglas Wiggin
    Kate Douglas Wiggin, nee Smith (1856-1923) was an American children’s author and educator. She was born in Philadelphia, and was of Welsh descent. She started the first free kindergarten in San Francisco in 1878 (the 'Silver Street Free Kindergarten'). With her sister in the 1880s she also established a training school for kindergarten teachers. Her best known books are The Sto...
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    22,15 €


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