Archibald Archibald: 231 books

Theodore Roosevelt Hunter-Conservationist reflects the zest for life that was so powerfully characteristic of TR. For decades, Roosevelt's big game hunting books have been among the most often quoted and reprinted of works in that genre. But no definitive biography of Roosevelt as the consummate hunter,...

A charming travelogue set in the British Raj, A Winter in India presents a fascinating journey across people, customs, languages, cities, monuments, and landscapes. Spens’ thrilling and amusing anecdotes and multifarious experiences — of the rugged Khyber Pass and its tribes, the military history...

Two survivors' accounts of the sinking of the Titanic. The information contained in Colonel Gracie's story is available from no other source. He provides details of the final moments, including names of passengers pulled from the ocean and of those men who, in a panic, jumped into lifeboats as they...

There cannot be many cities where crime could mean anything from singing a seditious song to stealing a ship, but nineteenth-century Glasgow was a unique place with an amazing dynamism. Immigrants poured in from Ireland and the Highlands, while the factories, shipyards and mills buzzed with innovation....

A Grimké Reader provides an excellent introduction to the writings and heroics of this influential family of Massachusetts Abolitionists.  The sisters, Sarah and Angelina, are, perhaps, the most famous members of this family.  Some of the most important writings, speeches, and actions of...

INTIMATE CHINA The Chinese as I have seen them.        PRELUDE. FIRST IMPRESSIONS. PAGE Arriving in Shanghai.—My First Tea-season.—Inside a Chinese City.—Shanghai Gardens.—In the Romantic East at last!    1 CHAPTER I. ON THE UPPER YANGTSE....

The country might invite a prince from his palace, merely for the pleasure of contemplating its beauty and excellence; but only add the rapturous idea of property, and what allurements can the world offer for the loss of so glorious a prospect? — Richard Henderson.

This 1921 volume carefully yet concisely traces the history of English Literature starting with “the beginnings”—that is, Beowulf. Strong goes on to discuss Chaucer, Shakespeare, the rise of the press, Wordsworth, and more, ending with a chapter on the Victorian novel. 

Every time a great man comes on the stage of human affairs, the fable of the Hercules repeats itself. He gets a sword from Mercury, a bow from Apollo, a breastplate from Vulcan, a robe from Minerva. Many streams from many sources bring to him their united strength. How else could the great man be equal...

It is the fashion nowadays for every one with a stone in his hand to take a shy at the poor Negro on account of his sins of commission and omission. It is enough that some member of the race is caught flagrante delicto or merely on suspicion of evil doing to get himself into the public pillory and the...

First Published in 1968. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

First Published in 1968. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Continuing to battle the rise of theological liberalism, Alexander goes over the history of the formation of the modern Bible. Where liberal scholars in the time were treating the Bible as a historical document, this book shows the legitimacy of the Biblical documents and the theological authority that each book carries.

THERE is, in reality, no collective title for the agglomeration of territories called Austria-Hungary. The House of Habsburg is merely the connecting link between many distinct parts, not only by virtue of conquest or annexation, but also by inheritance and by the right of long possession. It has...