Roosevelt's popular book Through the Brazilian Wilderness describes his expedition into the Brazilian jungle in 1913 as a member of the Roosevelt-Rondon Scientific Expedition co-named after its leader, Brazilian explorer Candido Rondon.
Meine Erinnerungen aus Ostafrika ist die autobiografische Darstellung von General Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck, einem deutschen Offizier, der wahrend des Ersten Weltkriegs in Ostafrika diente.
Excerpt: "e;The sea swings mad in the raging grip - Of the seething, stinging gale, - It moans its hate with a yearning wrath - That bids fair cheeks go pale, - But fill the bowl to its brimming tip ,- Drink!
Sein größter Traum geht nicht in Erfüllung: 1893 bricht der Norweger Fridtjof Nansen mit einem eigens dafür gebauten Schiff zur Eroberung des Nordpols auf und kehrt drei Jahre später in die Heimat zurück, ohne den Nordpol je betreten zu haben.
Autobiography of an Androgyne is an autobiographical account of Ralph Werther, who was born female but later identified as an androgyne, meaning a person with both masculine and feminine characteristics.
Excerpt: "e;When the rule limiting speeches to an hour was adopted by Congress, which was before most of you were born, an eminent but somewhat discursive person spent more than that measure of time in convincing me that whoever really had anything to say could say it in less.
Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell's The Life of Charlotte Bronte Volume 2 is a meticulously detailed biography that delves into the life and legacy of one of the 19th century's most renowned authors, Charlotte Bronte.
(Excerpt) "e;Though Southern rural life has necessarily changed since the Civil War, I doubt that there is in the entire South a place where it has changed less than on the Burge Plantation, near Covington, Georgia.
Excerpt: "e;Sing a song of Sixpence, A pocket full of rye; Four and twenty Blackbirds, Baked in a pie; When the pie was open'd, The birds began to sing, Oh, was not that a dainty dish, To set before the King.
Excerpt: "e;Amid all the eulogies and all the slanders that are lavished upon the English character, very few people would appear to take any real trouble to obtain a sincere view of it.
Excerpt: "e;While to scenery, it is distance,-and photography,-which lends enchantment, it is, on the contrary, propinquity which, in my experience, lends to the Borneo Head-Hunters and to their Home-life, a charm which cannot be wholly dispelled even by the skulls hanging from the rafters of their houses.
Excerpt: "e;Some time ago I wrote a book about a voyage in a whaler to the far south, to a white, silent land where the sun shines all day and night and it is quiet as the grave and beautiful as heaven-when it is not blowing and black as-the other place!
Excerpt: "e;As the train stopped before a small station built of logs, two boys carrying guns and rods sprang from their seats and hurried out into the fragrant, pine-laden air of northern Maine.
In this significant work, Schweinfurth provides a detailed account of his expeditions, discoveries, and interactions with the indigenous people of Central Africa.
At the peak of his writing career in 1906, after having written much of his most outstanding work, Jack London decided - very much encouraged by his wife Charmian London - to build the sturdy little 45-foot (13.
From Benjamin Franklin's birth in Boston to his election by Congress as America's first ambassador to France, the author traces the fascinating development of an impetuous and saucy youth who became a beloved man on both his native soil and throughout the world.
Excerpt: "e;One February afternoon in the year 1822, about two o'clock,-for this is the hour at which his day begins,-"e;the most notorious personality of his century"e; arouses himself, in the Palazzo Lanfranchi at Pisa.
Walt Whitman's "e;The Wound-Dresser"e; is a sixty-five-line free-verse poem in four sections describing the suffering in the Civil War hospitals and the poet's suffering, faithfulness to duty, and developing compassion as he tended to soldiers' physical wounds and gave comfort.
