Download or read book Far Places Classic Reprint written by James Mackintosh Bell and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-11-22 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Far Places In writing Far Places I confess to a definite object. Behind the descriptions of remote localities, the de tails of adventures, lurks the hope that the book may, in some small measure, encourage an interest in the science of geography. The word stirs memories of childhood days, of laborious learning of the names Of countries, their capital cities and other important towns, their physical features, the principal com modities each produces. But geography is much more than that. Without a knowledge of it, how can we understand history, and the tangled sequence Of political events? How can we visualise the eco nomic development of the world from those dim ages of the past when man was a wild animal hunting his prey much as the wolf does to - day, to this period of aeroplanes, of telegraphs, telephones and radios? About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Download or read book Stories of the Far West Classic Reprint written by Frank Mundell and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-12-23 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Stories of the Far West Rouse, brothers, rouse! We've far to travel, Free as the winds we love to roam; Far through the prairie, far through the forest Over the mountains, we'll find a home. We cannot breathe in crowded cities, Strangers we to the ways of trade; Longing to feel the grass beneath us. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Download or read book A Far Country Classic Reprint written by Winston Churchill and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-03-07 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from A Far Country At all events, when I look back upon the boy I was, I see the beginnings of a real person who fades little by little as manhood arrives and advances, until suddenly I am aware that a stranger has taken his place. I lived in a city which is now some twelve hours distant from the Atlantic seaboard. A very different city, too, it was in youth, in my grandfather's day and my father's, even in my own boyhood, from what it has Since become in this most material of ages. There is a book of my photographs, preserved by my mother, which I have been looking over lately. First is presented a plump child of two, gazing in smiling trustfulness upon a world of sunshine; later on a lean boy in plaided kilts, whose wavy, chestnut-brown hair has been most care fully parted on the side by Norah, his nurse. The face is still childish. Then appears a youth of fourteen or there about in long trousers and the queerest of Short jackets, standing beside a marble table against a classic background; he is smiling still in undiminished hope and trust, despite in creasing vexations and crossings, meaningless lessons which had to be learned, disciplines to rack an aspiring soul, and long, uncomfortable hours in the stiff pew of the First Presbyterian Church. Associated with this torture is a peculiar Sunday smell and the faint rustling of silk dresses. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Download or read book The Far Country Classic Reprint written by Marthedith Furnas and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-07-18 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Far Country The use of double negatives, for instance, among millions of people from generation to generation was not a caprice or an acci dent nor wholly due to imitation. Neither was it as much of a blunder as you might think. There must be many reasons for the preservation of any changes in speech, but I am sure one reason must be their assonance and rhythm. The human tongue dislikes to stumble. Human breathing imposes a loose but recognizable meter. The alliteration of not's, no's, nothing's, never's, and none's can put music and emotion into otherwise commonplace sentences, and their placement can emphasize the factual content. The idiom that goes with all such happy errors fits rhythmically around them. To improve the grammar in an idiomatic construction is usually to empty it, as if you had pulled out a plug. During the same period a genteel nasty-nice written English had developed, doted on by the semiliterate. Thus Unwin writes, The birds was chanting their matin hymns, rendering the grove musical with their melodies. These verbal mincings are scattered through his native vulgate partly because in his case they, too, are correct, but mainly because the contrast is comical. The phonetic misspelling of words, however, has been left out almost entirely. Uncle Remus, to my mind, is hard to read because it is solidly misspelled. Huckleberry Finn, to 'my mind, is easier to read because it is less so. And this book is still easier. You may know that Unwin would have said agin where he writes again and had 'a' been where he writes had been. But it is not important anyway. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Download or read book Far From To Day Classic Reprint written by Gertrude Hall and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-12 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Far From to-Day Out of my house! He cried, possessed with a wild dismay. Away from my door! Hold on to the beast, - chain him up! About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Download or read book Far Away and Long Ago Classic Reprint written by Frances Anne Kemble and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-02-08 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Far Away and Long Ago Not long after Miss Selbourne's death, a narrative was published purporting to be an account of events which transpired in Green ville a great many years ago. N 0 name was affixed to this publication, and a rumour got abroad that she was the author of it. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Download or read book Birdseye Views of Far Lands Classic Reprint written by James Thomas Nichols and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-08-26 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Birdseye Views of Far Lands Birdseye Views of Far Lands is an interesting, whole some presentation of something that a keen-eyed, alert traveler with the faculty of making contrasts with all classes of people in all sorts of places, in such a sympa thetic way as to win their esteem and confidence, has been able to pick up as he has roamed over the face of the earth for a quarter of a century. The book is not a geography, a history, a treatise on sociology or political economy. It is a Human Interest book which appeals to the reader who would like to go as the writer has gone and to see as the writer has seen the conformations of surface, the phenomena of nature and the human group that make up what we call a world. The reader finds facts indicating travel and study set forth in such vigorous, vivid style that the attention is held by a story while most valuable information is being obtained. The casual reader, the pupil in the public school and student in the high school, professional men and women, will all find the book at once highly inter esting and instructive. In no other book with which I am acquainted can so much that is interesting be learned of the world in so short time and in such a pleasing way. Teachers in rural schools will find the book especially helpful. It will inspire the pupils in the upper grades in these schools to do some observation work themselves and to in this manner seek to learn their own localities better, while at the same time it will suggest the collection of materials about other countries, their peoples, products. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Download or read book The Place Beyond the Winds Classic Reprint written by Harriet T. Comstock and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-09-13 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Place Beyond the Winds Dreamer's Rock and One Tree Island, Far Hill Place and Lonely Farm, safely sheltered they lie, and from them, in obedience to the Lure of the States, comes now and again an adventurous soul to make his way, if so he may; and never was there a braver, truer wanderer than Priscilla of Lonely Farm. Equipped with a great faith, a straight method of thinking, and an ideal that never faded from her sight, she, by the help of the Poor Property Man, found her place and her work awaiting her. Love, she found, too love that had to be tested by a man's sense of honour and a woman's deter mination, but it survived and found its fulfilment before the Shrine in the woods beyond Lonely Farm, where, as a little child, Priscilla had set up her Strange God and given homage to it. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Download or read book Life Here and There written by Nathaniel Parker Willis and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-06 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Life, Here and There: Or Sketches of Society and Adventure at Far-Apart Times and Places So imperceptibly is one stage of life shaded into the next - so gradual and easy are the transitions, through the changes worked by experience and observation - that we refer back to what we "always said," and "always thought," as if we had always looked through the same eyes and judged by the same standards. Yet, if we could recal the Past, with the backward-waving wand of the magician, and could see, together, the two pictures - life as it seemed then, and life as it seems now - how startling, to any mind, would be the comparison! An author who has chronicled his impressions, and preserved pictures of society, as he saw it at earlier and later stages of observation, has almost this magical privilege. He can look again at the scenes which he has copied and treasured up, and judge, as few others can, with what different eyes men look around them at far-apart times and places. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Download or read book The Far Cry Classic Reprint written by Henry Milner Rideout and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-12 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Far Cry "Ragotin, ce matin, A tant bu de pots de vin, Qu'il branle, qu'il branle!..." So sang Tisdale in the bow, and staggered for fun, while the schooner staggered in earnest. He enjoyed himself, watching the rainbow spray dash up at every plunge, and flinging his words aft in a melodious yell. Wallace, at the wheel, frowned. A pretty place to be singing, this was, aboard a battered old sea wagon like the Nantwich. She labored along, following the dirty white bulk and dirty black smoke of the steamer Albay, which tugged at her carelessly with ropes as short as when they left harbor. "O Rob!" cried the singer. "Look, Wallace! There he goes now!" About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Download or read book Places and People written by Joseph Charles Parkinson and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-11-21 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Places and People: Being Studies From the Life The very name is Odd, and sounds like a com bination Of the J arley whose waxworks were be loved by the nobility, and Morok the beast-tamer in the Wandering Jew. But there is far more Of stern reality than amusing fiction about J am rach. The roar of his lions is very real, and has no more Of the sucking dove about it than cooling regimen, spare diet, and confinement will supply. Some years ago one of his tigers stepped from his cage into the street, and, snapping up a boy as the most toothsome morsel handy, wagged its tail, and was complacently trotting down this narrow little street, until gently roused to a sense of the restraints of civilisation by means Of the very iron bar you see barricading the doorway now. Some time Since, the Commercial-road was roused at six in the morning by one of J amrach's elephants, which was being led to the docks for shipment to New York, and who resented (as who would not, save a vain woman the introduction of a Sharp metal instrument through the thin part of his ear. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Download or read book Far Off Or Africa and America Described Vol 2 written by Favell Lee Mortimer and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-16 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Far Off, or Africa and America Described, Vol. 2: With Anecdotes and Numerous Illustrations This is the most unhappy of the four quar ters of the globe. It is the land whence more slaves come than from any other; it may be called the land of bondage. It is the hottest of all the quarters of the globe. In many places it seldom rains, and the streams are dried up. It is less known than any other continent. There are mountains and lakes of immense size, which white men have never seen. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Download or read book Children of Other Lands Classic Reprint written by Watty Piper and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-12-03 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Children of Other Lands When you have been playing in the hot sun, nothing tastes quite so good as a. Drink of cold water. Ahmed and Hada live in a country far, far hotter than ours. Yet when they are thirsty they can have only a sip of luke-warm water from a goat-skin. To reach the 'near est well, they must travel miles and miles over the burning sands. This hot dry land where they live is called Arabia. The sea touches it for four thousand miles, but fresh water is very, very scarce. Arabia has almost no rivers except some which run underground. In some parts of Arabia rain seldom falls, and even the ocean breezes that blow across this big neck of land in western Asia are warm and dry. You wonder why anyone chooses to live in such a place, but about five million people do live there. Some of the people live in villages in houses of sun-dried brick, but many have no home but a tent. Ahmed and Hada live in a tent made of goat-skin. It is broad and low and has two rooms, one for Hada and her mother, and the other for Ahmed and his father. Sometimes Ahmed's beautiful horse, Selim, wanders into the tent too, and makes himself quite at home. Ahmed's father Hassan, owns many horses. They are smaller than our horses, but beautifully formed. They can travel a long time with out needing a drink. The Arabs are very fond of their horses and treat them like members of the family. Ahmed does not always ride on his horse. Sometimes he rides on a camel. Although Father Hassan has no house, he is a rich man. He owns many camels besides his horses and flocks of sheep and goats. He is a chief, too, which means that he rules over his tribe. But how can Father Hassan's animals get enough to eat in so dry and sandy a country? This is the reason. Arabia is not all desert. There are green spots here and there where the cattle can graze. When they have eaten the grass in these places, the family must move on. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Download or read book People Places and Things Classic Reprint written by James Payn and published by . This book was released on 2016-06-20 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from People, Places and Things E have had a great number of Curates in our parish, and from my position as churchwarden, I am tolerably well fitted to speak upon the subject. Under Preferments and Appointments, in the church newspapers, you may have seen, about once in every six months or so, the Rev. Some body Something to the curacy of Little Biddlebrigham, Devon, and have been under the mistaken impression that the young man had got a good thing; but this is far from being the case. 'a title given and a sole charge are the baits with which we allure juvenile divines into our parish, and we have found them very killing - the baits, I mean, not the divines but since we are upon that subject, I may state at once that the word might have been not seldom applied to our Curates themselves. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Download or read book The Girl From Tim s Place Classic Reprint written by Charles Clark Munn and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-03-23 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Girl From Tim's Place When we leave the world's busy haunts and penetrate the primal solitude of a vast wilderness, a new realm peopled by mystic genii opens to us. Each sombre gorge, where twisted roots clasp the moss-coated walls, discloses fabled gnomes and dryads. Nymphs and naiads outline their shad owy forms in the mist of every cascade. Elfin sprites dance in the ripples of a laughing brook, and brownies scamper away over the leaf-swept hilltops. A wondrous Presence, multiform, omnipresent, and ever fascinating, meets us on every hand, and there in those magic aisles and sombre glades, where man seems far away and God very near, Nature sits enthroned. It is with the hope that a few of my readers may feel this forest-born mood, and in its poetic Spirit forget worldly cares, that I have written the story of The Girl from Tim's Place. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Download or read book Out of Town Places written by Donald Grant Mitchell and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-17 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Out-of-Town Places: With Hints for Their Improvement I have changed the name of this volume, not with the view of deceiving anybody, or of putting a new blazon upon old wares, - but be cause I wish to express, so far as I can, in the title, the very practical aim of the book, and to dispossess the reader at the start of any notion that it is made up by a mere literary grouping of ruralities. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Download or read book Poems of Places written by Henry W. Longfellow and published by . This book was released on 2016-07-02 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Poems of Places: America, Middle States Efore my bark the waves have curled As It bore me thrice around the world; And for forty years have met my eyes The beauties born under wide-spread skies. But though far and long may be my track, It is never too far for looking back; And I see them, - see them, over the sea, As I saw them when youth still dwelt with me, The brown-eyed girls of Jersey! About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.