Thomas Knox: 28 books

An American makes the trek across Siberia via horse, carriage and sled, during the mid nineteenth century. Original Illustrations included.

An American visits Siberia, along the Amoor river, during the mid nineteenth century. This piece includes a description of a wedding as well as the usual cultural comments and landscape and business descriptions in a country where dogs were used to haul boats and sledges. Various tribes are encountered as this border river between Russia and China is explored. Well illustrated.

2 works of Thomas Wallace Knox Journalist, author, and world traveler (1835-1896) This ebook presents a collection of 2 works of Thomas Wallace Knox. A dynamic table of contents allows you to jump directly to the work selected. Table of Contents: Camp-Fire and Cotton-Field The Land of the Kangaroo

The Lost Army written by Thomas W. Knox who was a journalist, author, and world traveler. This book was published in 1899. And now republish in ebook format. We believe this work is culturally important in its original archival form. While we strive to adequately clean and digitally enhance...

The plan of this volume is almost identically that of "The Boy Travellers in the Far East." Frank Bassett and Fred Bronson, with their accomplished mentor, Doctor Bronson, have traversed the length and breadth of the South American Continent from the Isthmus of Panama to the Strait of Magellan....

'Thought-provoking, well-written, and offering a range of fresh and sometimes challenging perspectives, Planning and Support should be essential reading for people working in the field of learning disabilities. Highly recommended.' - Involve Magazine The authors outline the skills needed and common issues...

“That is so,” said Harry; “I quite agree with you. I wonder how white men manage to live here at all.” This conversation occurred at Bonny, a trading station on one of the mouths of the river Niger in Western Africa. In former times Bonny was a famous resort for slave traders, and great numbers...

"Hints, advice, and suggestins to travelers by land and sea all over the globe." First published in 1881. Great resource for research into that time period. Chapter titles: GENERAL ADVICE APPLICABLE TO ALL KINDS OF TRAVEL, RAILWAY TRAVEL IN THE UNITED STATES AND CANADAS, AMERICAN STEAMBOAT TRAVEL,...

I passed the summer and autumn of 1860 in the Rocky Mountain Gold Region. At that time the population of the young Territory was composed of emigrants from Northern and Southern States, those from the colder regions being in the majority. When the Presidential election took place, there was much angry...

There is an old saying of unknown origin that a light heart and a thin pair of trowsers are the principal requisites for a journey. The proper texture of one's garments depends largely on his route of travel and the difficulties to be encountered; thin ones would be desirable in hot countries and...

Expanding American Anthropology, 1945–1980: A Generation Reflects takes an inside look at American anthropology’s participation in the enormous expansion of the social sciences after World War II. During this time the discipline of anthropology itself came of age, expanding into diverse subfields,...

NEVER have I sailed out of New-York harbor on a finer day than when, in the spring of 1873, I started on that pilgrimage of which this book is to be the record. It was late in April, the sky was clear, and the atmosphere had that balmy softness which we find in the tropics much oftener than in more...

The rapidly increasing prominence of the Australian colonies during the past ten or twenty years has led to the preparation of the volume of which this is the preface. Australia has a population numbering close upon five millions and it had prosperous and populous cities, all of them presenting abundant...