Product Description: The following pages make no pretension to a detailed history of the military operations of the Kaffir War. Written during leisure hours, in a lonely fort, or by the camp fire after the fatigues of the day, and mainly embracing the movements of one Division only—often of a Single Brigade or Corps—they attempt merely to convey a general idea of the country, and of the scenes and passing events of the Campaign...read more

Product Description: This book records observations made and impressions formed during a journey through western and southern South America from Panama to Argentina and Brazil via the Straits of Magellan. The nature of its contents is briefly outlined in the Introduction which follows, so all that I have to do here is to acknowledge gratefully the many kindnesses I received in every part of South America which I visited, and in particular from the following persons: Colonel Goethals, Chief Engineer of the Panama Canal, and other officers of the United States engineers stationed there, and Colonel Gorgas, head of the medical staff; the officials of the Peruvian Corporation in Lima and of the Peruvian Southern Railways in Mollendo, Arequipa, and La Paz; the officials of the Antofagasta and Bolivia Railroad Company; those of the Transandine Railway Company in Chile and those of the Buenos Aires and Pacific and Argentine Great Western Railways Companies in Mendoza and Buenos Aires, and also those of the Leopoldina Railway in Brazil...read more

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A history of the settlement and development of New Hampshire from 1603 to the role it played in the American Revolution

The art of native North Americans from the Eskimos to the Pueblo tribes illustrated in designs from pottery, paintings, drums, ornaments, and masks

Traces the history of the Kremlin, the fortress that for 900 years has been the political center of Russia, showing how it reflects the history and traditions of the whole of Russia and her people.

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Product Description: Laura Ingalls Wilder is beginning life with her new husband, Almanzo, in their own little house. Laura is a young pioneer wife now, and must work hard with Almanzo, farming the land around their home on the South Dakota prairie. Soon their baby daughter, Rose, is born, and the young family must face the hardships and triumphs encountered by so many American pioneers...read more

Product Description: Bones turn into dinosaurs, rotten wood into a Viking warship. Helps us enjoy real museums.

Combining meticulous research and dramatic narrative history, the author sheds new light on the sinking of the 'Titanic,' with new evidence and theories on, and revelations about, the disaster

Surveys the evolution of civilization beginning with the settlement of the first cities by the Sumerians through the rise to power of the Greeks and Romans.

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Recounts St. Brendan's life and voyage to North America long before the Vikings arrived.