Download or read book With the World s Great Travellers Vol 1 Classic Reprint written by Charles Morris and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-05 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from With the World's Great Travellers, Vol. 1 These considerations have guided us in our endeavor to tell the story of the world, alike of its familiar and uh familiar localities, as displayed ih the narratives of those who have seen its every part. Special interest attaches to the stories of those travellers who first gazed upon the won ders and observed the inhabitants of previously unknown lands, and whose descriptions are therefore those of dis coverers. 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 With the World s Great Travellers Vol 6 Classic Reprint written by Charles Morris and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-03 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from With the World's Great Travellers, Vol. 6 In any excursion we just see what we take with us to see. According to mood or stock of information we see the bricks that hide the poetry, or the picture minus its paint ing. A ruin may be the visible foundation of a castle in the air, or simply a stone-heap. If there is one sacred spot where the stones cry out for the passer-by to hear their ser mons, songs, or wails, it is Rome. One treads on the dust of the mightiest people of the past. All around are the symbols of power and pomp. We drop the thread of ancient story only to find we have to link it with present achieve ments. The old and new meet here on common ground, with the Colosseum for their greeting-place and St. Peter's as a living force of to-day. The eternal city keeps its sn tiquities as of old, of course, and adds to them by dragging others from the earth, but since the court moved to Rome from Florence much modernizing of the city has been in progress. This will be less regretted when we consider that in digging foundations for new buildings there are constant ly being unearthed precious treasures of art. In the fifteen years ending with 1888 it was officially reported that one hundred and ninety-two marble statues; two hundred and sixty-six busts, seventy-seven columns, four hundred bronzes, and no fewer than thirty-seven thousand gold and silver coins had been discovered in this way. 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 With the World s Great Travellers Vol 2 Classic Reprint written by Charles Morris and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from With the World's Great Travellers, Vol. 2 Broadway is one of the great streets of the world though really a Narrow-way for so important a thoroughfare. Running north and south and having no rival for its. 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 With the World s Great Travellers Vol 3 Classic Reprint written by Charles Morris and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-29 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from With the World's Great Travellers, Vol. 3 This mystifying prelude may seem rather disheartening to the stranger, primed with rational curiosity to under stand, as well as see, this unwieldy London. He will find, however, his curiosity whetted, deepened, elevated, in pro portion as he takes with him a moderate grounding in the historical associations of the old city. This easily acquired information will prove to be a key that will unlock hidden places holding bunches of other keys, so that everywhere one may turn, the streets, buildings, and monuments recite their own fascinating stories. 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 With the World s Great Travellers Vol 7 Classic Reprint written by Charles Morris and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-12-22 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from With the World's Great Travellers, Vol. 7 The approach from the sea reminds the traveller of his first sight of Holland. The city slowly rises out of the water, and stops when its basement windows are level with the waves. Peter ignored all the unfavorable conditions and protests. The word was given and great armies of Babel-tongued Tartars, Cossacks, Finns, and Siberian ex iles were swiftly driven to the spot and ordered to dig the foundations of a city. Like the Israelites in Egypt they were compelled to make bricks without straw, dig the swamp with or without spades, build huts whether they had sufficient materials or not. Thousands of these wretches perished in the first year, but thirty thousand houses were set up. Then artisans and workmen were driven by brute force to settle in the embryo capital. Merchants and nobles who owned five hundred souls, otherwise serfs, were made to build their homes in the new Peter-town, and - stay there even through the winters. No more stone houses were allowed to be built in Russia, because all the masons were coralled in the rising city. No vessels were allowed to enter the wharves unless each brought a cargo of stone as a free-will offering. Thus grew the capital whose foundations are the bones of martyrs to the cruelest despot ism since the days of the Pharaohs. 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 With the World s Great Travellers Vol 4 Classic Reprint written by Charles Morris and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-04 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from With the World's Great Travellers, Vol. 4 Notre Dame is not a modern imitation. The great cathedral stands on the little Ile de la Cite which was the beginning of Paris, inhabited two thousand years ago by the Parisii, a Celtic tribe whose name survives. For eight centuries it has been a Christian church. The west front is rich in statues of the kings of France. The originals were destroyed in the Revolution, but have been replaced. The cathedral itself was turned into the mockery of a Temple of Reason, with a woman of the town enthroned as its deity. Napoleon's wise statesmanship restored the church to its rightful usages. The Commune once more made free with the old shrine, using it as barracks. Among its relics is the robe Archbishop Darboy wore when the Communists put him to death. The churches of Paris have weird stories to tell. The sacred spot where Gene vieve, the patron saint of Paris, was buried, in the sixth century, was a place of worship until the Revolution changed it into a Pantheon. It became a church once more in 1851, though in its crypt lie Voltaire, Rousseau, and other famous writers. The tomb of Napoleon is be neath the Dome of the Church of the Invalides, attached to the home for veterans founded by Louis XIV. 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 With the World s Great Travellers Vol 5 Classic Reprint written by Charles Morris and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-12-23 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from With the World's Great Travellers, Vol. 5 The Old Museum founded by Frederick William III, to which has been added the New Museum, form a stately pile together. They are rich in ancient and modern sculp tures, Egyptian and Scandinavian antiquities, and art works of many kinds. The great feature of the New Museum is the Kaulbach series of frescoes, representing human progress historically'from the age of Homer to the sixteenth century. The National Gallery has an imposing facade, and possesses a splendid, large collection of paint ings, representing every school and period. 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 WITH THE WORLDS GRT TRAVELLERS written by Charles 1833-1922 Morris and published by Wentworth Press. This book was released on 2016-08-28 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Download or read book WITH THE WORLDS GRT TRAVELLERS written by Charles 1833-1922 Ed Morris and published by Wentworth Press. This book was released on 2016-08-29 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Download or read book Travel by Design written by Peter Sallick and published by Assouline Publishing. This book was released on 2020-10-01 with total page 6 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Showcasing travel photographs by more than 150 of America’s top architects and designers, Travel by Design is an inspiring guide to the power of travel to shape and expand our world. Travel by Design reminds us of the beauty and importance of travel, with images of more than 100 locations in 60 countries, from exotic destinations and global cities to adventure travels and all-American escapes. More than 350 photographs take readers on a global journey through cityscapes, ancient civilizations, luxurious resorts, and stunning natural wonders, all seen through the discerning and artistic eyes of today’s leading creative talents. The images are sure to inspire dreams of escape, and the 40 pages of insider resources—from favorite hotels and restaurants to secret shopping sources and must-see monuments—will make planning future trips reassuring and easy.
Download or read book Fellow Travellers Classic Reprint written by Graham Travers and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-03-23 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Fellow Travellers Tut, tut! He answered shortly. Will corbies pick oot corbies' een? That wasn't much to do for poor Tom's boy - and yours. Now, don't fret. The child's all right. Keep up his strength, and don't be afraid of fresh air. Good-bye. Good-bye, she said, scarcely lowering her voice as much as he could have wished. God bless you! You are - the shadow of a great rock in a weary land! 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 Joyous Travelers Vol 1 Classic Reprint written by Maud McKnight Lindsay and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-07-04 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Joyous Travelers, Vol. 1 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 Great Travellers Volume 1 written by Various and published by VM eBooks. This book was released on 2016-02-22 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Next to actual travel, the reading of first-class travel stories by men and women of genius is the finest aid to the broadening of views and enlargement of useful knowledge of men and the world’s ways. It is the highest form of intellectual recreation, with the advantage over fiction-reading of satisfying the wholesome desire for facts. With all our modern enthusiasm for long journeys and foreign travel, now so easy of accomplishment, we see but very little of the great world. The fact that ocean voyages are now called mere “trips” has not made us over-familiar with even our own kinsfolk in our new dependencies. Foreign peoples and lands are still strange to us. Tropic and Arctic lands are as far apart in condition as ever; Europe differs from Asia, America from Africa, as markedly as ever. Man still presents every grade of development, from the lowest savagery to the highest civilization, and our interest in the marvels of nature and art, the variety of plant and animal life, and the widely varied habits and conditions, modes of thought and action, of mankind, is in no danger of losing its zest. These considerations have guided us in our endeavor to tell the story of the world, alike of its familiar and unfamiliar localities, as displayed in the narratives of those who have seen its every part. Special interest attaches to the stories of those travellers who first gazed upon the wonders and observed the inhabitants of previously unknown lands, and whose descriptions are therefore those of discoverers. One indisputable advantage belongs to this work over the average record of travel: the reader is not tied down to the perusal of a one-man book. He has the privilege of calling at pleasure upon any one of these eminent travellers to recount his or her exploit, with the certainty of finding they are all in their happiest vein and tell their best stories.
Download or read book With the World s Great Travellers Vol 8 Classic Reprint written by Charles Morris and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-02 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from With the World's Great Travellers, Vol. 8 Canadian winters are warmed up by the love of sport which characterizes the people. In Montreal it has long been the custom to erect a huge and thoroughly artistic pal ace with ice blocks for stones. Thousands come from near and far to the festivals held in the palace grounds. When the electric lights add their brilliance the scene is entran cing. Snow-shoe clubs are popular, each with its blanket uniform, and they combine choral music With their moon light games. The Canadian toboggan has found a welcome in many lands during recent years. A winter holiday has more attractions than terrors for most strangers after the first few days. The air is cold, dry and bracing. The eu ergy of the people is remarkable. Canada has its titled magnates, its great philanthropists, its scholars and writ ers, and has sent its volunteer soldiers to share the perils and honors of England's wars. It also offers the finest mountain scenery, in the Selkirk range, as another induce ment to travellers to make its closer acquaintance. 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 Tales of a Traveller Vol 1 Classic Reprint written by Washington Irving and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-03-12 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Tales of a Traveller, Vol. 1 Now all this is extremely tantalizing. It is like being congratulated on the high prize when one has drawn a blank for I have just as great a desire as any one of the public to penetrate the mystery of that very singular personage, whose voice fills every corner of the world, without any one being able to tell whence it comes. 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 Lives of Celebrated Travellers Vol 1 Classic Reprint written by James Augustus St. John and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-03-21 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Lives of Celebrated Travellers, Vol. 1 Dr. Sournav, speaking of the works of travellers, very justly remarks, that of such books we cannot have too many! And adds, with equal truth, that because they contribute to the instruction of the learned, their reputation suffers no diminution by the course of time, but that age rather enhances their value. Every man, indeed, whose compre hensive mind enables him to sympathize with human nature under all its various aspects, and to detect - through the endless disguises superinduced by strange religions, policies, manners, or climate passions, weaknesses, and virtues akin to his own, must peruse the relations of veracious travellers with peculiar satisfaction and delight. But there 'is another point of view in which the labours of this class of writers may be contemplated with advan tage. Having made use of them as a species of telescope for bringing remote scenes near our ih tellectual eye, it may, perhaps, be of considerable utility to observe the effect of so many dissimilar and unusual objects, as necessarily present them selves to travellers, Upon the mind, character, and happiness of the individuals who beheld them. This, in fact, is the business of the biographer; and it is what I have endeavoured to perform, to the best of my abilities, in the following Lives. 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 David Crockett written by James Atkins Shackford and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 1994-01-01 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Davy Crockett has been America's best-known folk hero for at least 160 years. This informed biography by James Atkins Shackford first appeared in 1956, at the height of the television-inspired Crockett craze. As Michael Lofaro notes in his introduction, "Shackford faced the monumental task of rescuing a nearly unknown David Crockett from the obscurity caused by the popularity of the earlier legendary Davys and deepened by Disney." He succeeded memorably, restoring David Crockett of Tennessee, a true pioneer and colorful figure even without romantic trappings.
