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This edition features • illustrations • a linked Table of Contents, Footnotes, and Index CONTENTS BOOK I. THE DESERTS OF EUROPE AND ASIA:—THE LANDES, THE DUNES, AND THE STEPPES. I. THE DESERT IN FRANCE:—THE LANDES OF BRITTANY, II. THE LANDES OF GASCONY, III. THE DUNES, OR SAND-HILLS, IV....

This edition features a linked Table of Contents CONTENTS Book I First Adventure Concerning the Niebelungs Second Adventure Concerning Siegfried Third Adventure How Siegfried Came to Worms Fourth Adventure How Siegfried Fought with the Saxons Fifth Adventure How Siegfried First Saw Kriemhild Sixth...

The Other Side of Evolution Its Effects and Fallacy This edition features a linked Table of Contents and Index. CONTENTS PREFACE. Claims of Evolution. — Interest in subject. — Effect on Christian belief. — Opinion of eminent scholars. — Effect on the common man. — Evolution...

CONTENTS RETROSPECT, COMMUNICATIONS, ETC., REPORTING, CANT TERMS, PLEBE CAMP, STUDIES, ETC., YEARLING CAMP, FIRST CLASS CAMP, OUR FUTURE HEROES, TREATMENT, RESUME, PLEASURES AND PRIVILEGES, FURLOUGH, INCIDENT, HUMOR, ETC., GRADUATION—IN THE ARMY, SMITH AT WEST POINT

Excerpt For a long time the Indians had been disaffected, but no one was energetic enough among them to combine them in taking measures for their rights. Every time they had petitioned the Legislature, the laws, by the management of the interested whites, had been made more severe against them....

This edition features • illustrations • a linked Table of Contents and Index CONTENTS Introduction The hula The halau; the kuahu--their decoration and consecration The gods of the hula Support and organization of the hula Ceremonies of graduation; debut of a hula dancer The password--the...

This edition features • illustrations • a linked Table of Contents, linked Footnotes, and linked Index The narrative is highly interesting as exhibiting the state of some of the West India Islands two hundred and fifty years ago, many of them being then uninhabited by Europeans; and of...

• illustrations • a linked Table of Contents CONTENTS DETAILED CONTENTS: SECRETS OF THE LATE REBELLION. CHAPTER I. INTRODUCTORY. EXPLANATIONS AND PLEDGES. CHAPTER II. RUNNING THE LAND BLOCKADE. KING COTTON BEHIND THE SCENES. CHAPTER III. ESTABLISHING STATIONS—FIRST TRIP AND FIRST PASSENGERS. CHAPTER...

About the Author Caleb Huse Major and Purchasing Agent, C. S. A.

This edition features • illustrations • a linked Table of Contents and Footnotes CONTENTS Prelude I—New York the Seat of War II—Plans for Defence III—Long Island Taken IV—New York Evacuated V—The Situation Reviewed VI—The Retreat through the Jerseys VII—Lee's March and Capture VIII—The...

This edition features • a linked Table of Contents, linked Footnotes, and linked Index CONTENTS CHAPTER I. THE APPROACHES TO THE WATER-WAY OF THE CONTINENT. CHAPTER II. FROM QUEBEC TO SOREL. CHAPTER III. FROM THE ST. LAWRENCE RIVER TO TICONDEROGA, LAKE CHAMPLAIN. CHAPTER IV. FROM LAKES GEORGE...

This edition features a linked Table of Contents CONTENTS INTRODUCTION. CHAPTER I Passage to the Whale-fish Islands, and Removal of Stores from the Transport — Enter the Ice in Baffin’s Bay — Difficulties of Penetrating to the Westward — Quit the Ice in Baffin’s Bay — Remarks on the...

This edition features a linked Table of Contents. CONTENTS CHAPTER I. THE AMERICANS IN 1750. CHAPTER II. EXPULSION OF THE FRENCH (1750-1763). CHAPTER III. CAUSES OF THE REVOLUTION (1763-1775). CHAPTER IV. UNION AND INDEPENDENCE (1775-1783). CHAPTER V. THE CONFEDERATION (1781-1788). CHAPTER...

This edition features • illustration • a linked Table of Contents and Index CONTENTS CHAPTER I EARLY YEARS, EDUCATION, AND TRAVEL 1792-1813 Rise of the Russells under the Tudors — Childhood and early surroundings of Lord John — Schooldays at Westminster — First journey abroad with...