John Abbott: 164 books

"Now, in the hour of death, O my God, come to my aid." These were his last words. He sank back insensible upon his pillow. A few hours of painful breathing passed away, and at eight o'clock in the morning of the 1st of September, 1715, he expired, in the seventy-seventh year of his...

The island of Corsica, in the Mediterranean Sea, sixty miles from the coast of Tuscany, is about half as large as the State of Massachusetts. In the year 1767 this island was one of the provinces of Italy. There was then residing, in the small town of Corté, in Corsica, a young lawyer nineteen years...

The island of Martinique emerges in tropical luxuriance from the bosom of the Caribbean Sea. A meridian sun causes the whole land to smile in perennial verdure, and all the gorgeous flowers and luscious fruits of the torrid zone adorn upland and prairie in boundless profusion. Mountains, densely...

Paphos Publishers offers a wide catalog of rare classic titles, published for a new generation.  Midshipman Farragut is a biography of the famous admiral.

A 'fast-forward' acting course covering all the essential techniques an actor needs to know and use - with a suite of exercises to put each technique into practice. The Acting Book offers various ways to analyse a text and to create character, using not only the established processes of Stanislavsky...

A contemporaneous description of Grierson's Cavalry raid into Southern Territory. Illustrated.

This brief narrative details the tribulations and the ordeals of three Union Soldiers captured and imprisoned by the Confederacy, especially heir daring escape from the infamous prison in Richmond. Illustrated.

A look at the administration and functioning of the civil war era hospitals at Fortress Monroe. Illustrated.

While the rate of urbanisation in the developing world has increased dramatically over the past 20 years, governments' capacity to support urban growth has, in many cases, failed to keep up with this trend. Non-governmental organisations working in the field have long advocated community management...

The origin of the House of Orleans is involved in some obscurity. The city of Orleans, from which the duke takes his title, was the Aurelium of imperial Rome. The first Duke of Orleans with whom history makes us familiar was Philip, the only brother of Louis XIV. Louis XIII., the son and heir of...

A brief contemporaneous account of the many attempts to take Vicksburg, culminating in the siege and surrender. Illustrated.

There are but few persons, in the United States, who have not heard the name of the renowned pirate, Captain Kidd. There are also but few to be found who have any intelligent conception of his wild and guilty career. The banks of the Hudson, the islands scattered through the Sound which skirts the...

The campaigns of Burnside, Goldsborough and Foster at coastal North Carolina. Contemporaneous Reporting. Illustrated.