Lafcadio Hearn was probably as responsible as anyone for opening the Western mind to the ways of the Japanese, having lived and worked there, marrying a Japanese woman and becoming a naturalized citizen.
A Record of Observation, Experiences, and Impressions Made During a Period of Over Fifty Years' Intimate Association with the Natives and Study of the Animal & Vegetable Life of the Island.
Excerpt: "e;For that matter the whole west coast of Africa is called by the natives The White Man's Grave; and everywhere the fever stalks along the beach like a grim sentinel warning the stranger to stay away and ready to beat him into delirium and death if he lands.
Excerpt: "e;The purpose of this narrative is to hand down to my children, and to present to my friends, an intimate, personal account of a life which has not been without interesting episodes, and which has been lived during the most eventful period that this Nation will, in all probability, ever know.
Excerpt: "e;It is somewhat disturbing to one who visits the West for the first time with the purpose of writing of it, to read on the back of a railroad map, before he reaches Harrisburg, that Texas "e;is one hundred thousand square miles larger than all the Eastern and Middle States, including Maryland and Delaware.
Excerpt: "e;Through the quiet night, crystalline with the pervading spirit of the frost, under prairie skies of mystic purple pierced with the glass-like glinting of the stars, fled Antoine.
Excerpt: "e;This is a book of Travels in Virginia during a period that may be called revolutionary, from the year 1769 to the year 1802, when the United States lay still to the east of France and Spain, and the limit of Virginia to the west was the river Ohio: it was a proud commonwealth, and with reason, territorially, in the character of its ruling people, and in that inexplicable inheritance which has made Virginia significant.
It is written as a narrative of events in the tribal life of a boy and girl in the Congo Forest, culminating in an exciting fight between the tribe and a band of Arab slave traders which ends in the discomfiture of the latter.
A classic book describing the journey the Author has made to Lhasa, the capital city of Tibet and to Central Tibet, when the land was untouched by the outside world, before the Chinese occupation.
Excerpt: "e;The title of this work would probably convey no definite idea to the minds of most Europeans; it might be considered as merely a figurative expression.
Excerpt: "e;Strange it must appear that the account of perhaps the most celebrated and, certainly to the English nation, the most momentous voyage of discovery that has ever taken place--for it practically gave birth to the great Australasian Colonies--has never before been given to the world in the very words of its great leader.
Amerika, (Der Verschollene) ist neben Das Schloss und Der Process einer der drei unvollendeten Romane von Franz Kafka, entstanden zwischen 1911 und 1914 und 1927 von seinem Freund und Herausgeber Max Brod postum veröffentlicht.
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.
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.
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.
