Search

PDF Books in Travel 45256


Charles Dickens 1q5bb

American Notes for Circulation is Dickens views on the American Society of his days. He traveled depth of many cities North America and Canada and his observations and comparisons over British Society was not well received by Americans as they thought it was too vivid and unfair. His criticism such as ill-manners, familiarity with strangers were th.. 34p1r

Robert Louis Stevenson 6x2vj

In an attempt to distance himself from an affair with American woman and to explore materials for his publications, Stevenson traveled in the mountains of south-western with Modestine, a Donkey as his companion. This classic outdoor literature Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes was the first to mention about sleeping bags. Though the Ceve..

Robert Louis Stevenson 6x2vj

Stevenson narrates his travel through Belgium, in his travel literature An Inland Voyage. Sir Walter Grindlay Simpson, a friend of Stevenson was a companion in the travel and both of them had to face many hurdles including getting a jail term.  Along-with An Inland Voyage, he wrote many such works like Travels with a Donkey in the Céven..

Richard Mayde 654e26

As we travel northward, leaving the sunny lands of the temperate zone, we come after a time to mighty and seemingly endless forests of pines and firs. Mile after mile, they stretch away in a lonely silence. The wintry gale that rages among them is answered only by the howl of the wolf, while a few bears, reindeer, and the arctic fox, alone of anima..

Le Plongeon 5j5bc

There are authors who attribute the origin of modern Free Masonry to the followers of Pythagoras, because some of the speculations of that Philosopher concerning the meaning of the numbers are to be found in the esoteric doctrines taught in the masonic lodges. Others, on of the Christian symbols that have been incorporated in the decoration..

Chilian Convicts 112y20

The preface to a book is very often nothing more than a respectable cloak, allowed by the conventionalities of literature, in which an author may wrap his excuses and apologies for troubling the public with his lucubrations. This dres of excuses in order to introduce them into notice under another name, is a thing so tempting to poor human n..

Oscar Wilde d2i5f

Oscar Wilde visited America in the year 1882. Interest in the aethetic School, of which he was already the acknowledged master, had sometime previously spread to the United States, and it is said that the production of the Gilbert and Sullivan opera, Patience, in which he and his disciples were held up to ridicule, determined him to pay a visit to ..

Henry James 192yg

Italian Hours is a book of travel writing by Henry James published in 1909. The book collected essays that James had written over nearly forty years about a country he knew and loved well. James extensively revised and sometimes expanded the essays to create a more consistent whole. He also added two new essays and an introduction.Italian Hours end..