The Pleasant and Surprizing Adventures of Robert Drury, during His Fifteen Years' Captivity on the Island of Madagascar is a remarkable and true story of survival and adventure.
Excerpt: "e;The beginning of the victorious career of modern science was very largely due to the making of two stimulating discoveries at the close of the Middle Ages.
Auszug: "Wer jene Park-Vorstadt durchwandert, deren Paläste mitten in die Waldstille des alten Berliner Tiergartens alle Schätze der Kunst und des Reichtums verpflanzt haben, bemerkt noch hie und da in der Reihe der glänzenden Villen neuesten Datums eines jener älteren Landhäuser bescheideneren Stils, die nicht auf den Prunk gebaut, meist von der Straße etwas zurückgezogen, unter dem Schutz alter Ahorn- und Akazienbäume liegen und es verschmähen, mit Springbrunnen und Statuen den Vorübergehenden anzulocken.
Excerpt: "e;The smooth highway over which thousands of automobiles skim in long summer processions from Massachusetts to the mountains, coquettes with Chocorua as it winds through the Ossipees.
New Lands Within The Arctic Circle is a non-fiction book written by Julius Payer, an Austrian explorer who was a member of the Austro-Hungarian North Pole Expedition of 1872-1874.
Die Ausgabe von 1844 Nach einem schmalen Band, den die Droste 1838 mit mäßigem Erfolg herausgab, erscheint 1844 bei Cotta ihre zweite und weit bedeutendere Lyrikausgabe.
Excerpt: "e;On the evening of the 22nd November, 1440, the report of a brass carthoun, or cannon-royale, as it pealed from the castle of Edinburgh, made all who were in the thoroughfares below raise their eyes to the grey ramparts, where the white smoke was seen floating away from the summit of King David's Tower, and then people were seen hastening towards the southern side of the city, where the quaint old streets and narrow alleys opened into the fields, or the oakwoods of Bristo and Drumsheugh.
Excerpt: "e;Down came the rain, sudden, heavy and terrible, seeming to quell even the sea's rage and whelming those defenceless hundreds of dark-skinned voyagers in new and more dreadful misery.
Excerpt: "e;As far back as I can remember the sea had a strange fascination for me, and if, as is the custom with old people to ask a boy, however small, what he is going to be when he is a man, I invariably answered "e;a sailor of course.
The twenty-six essays collected in Notes on Life and Letters (first published 1921) offer a kaleidoscopic view of Joseph Conrad's literary views and interest in the events of his day, including the Titanic disaster, First World War, and the re-emergence of his native Poland as a nation state.
Excerpt: "e;Dear Reed: I have delayed sending back the proof sheets of the third edition of your "e;Cadet Life at West Point"e; because I wanted to read them.
Valuable not only as an early collection of thirty-seven poems, but for "e;Professor Slote's introduction, which considers events leading to the poems, critically analyses them and then brilliantly relates them to Willa Cather's fictional themes and techniques.
Excerpt: "e;Except for those who, under compulsion of a sick certificate, are flying Bombaywards, it is good for every man to see some little of the great Indian Empire and the strange folk who move about it.
Excerpt: "e;When I first began to collect materials for the writing of the life of Poggio Bracciolini, I was much indebted to the kindness of my late friends Mr.
Excerpt: "e;On the morning of the 25th day of April, 18-, the whale-ship Montpelier, of New London, anchored in one of the many bays that open along the coast of Kamschatka, where it is washed by the waters of the Sea of Ochotsk.
Memories of My Life is the autobiography of the French actress Sarah Bernhardt, who was internationally famed during her lifetime and afterwards as one of the classical theater's all-time greatest stars.
Excerpt: "e;When an expedition starts for distant and mysterious regions for an uncertain length of time, and particularly when its objective point is the frozen heart of the Arctic Circle, it is natural that those who know and are interested in its objects and plans should turn with interest to its personnel and its surroundings and environment while en route to the scene of action.
Excerpt: "e;These selections from the poetry of Robert Browning have been made with especial reference to the tastes and capacities of readers of the high-school age.
Excerpt: "e;In the Highlands of Perthshire a deadly feud had existed, from time immemorial, between the Lisles of Inchavon and the Stuarts of Lochisla.
Excerpt: "e;With Lieutenant Cook, in this voyage, embarked Joseph Banks, Esquire, a gentleman possessed of considerable landed property in Lincolnshire.
