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Ornithologist and naturalist W. H. Hudson's Adventures Among Birds is an engaging account of the ...

This engrossing volume of literary criticism from Henry James, one of the world's foremost critic...

Thoreau's friend Ralph Waldo Emerson gathered these letters and poems in 1865. The letters range ...

A father returns from a lonely twenty years' exile in Australia, to find his only son cold and un...

In 1874, the Anglican socialist and advocate of ?muscular Christianity? looked at England and saw...

The eventful and controversial career of Sir Horatio Herbert Kitchener (1850-1916) is celebrated ...

Horatio Herbert Kitchener was a British Field Marshal, and later Secretary of State for War, famo...

Underwood was a personal friend of the great American poet and abolitionist James Russell Lowell....

Major-General Charles ?Chinese? Gordon (1833-1885) was a heroic British soldier and eccentric ind...

This edition of combines the contents of two volumes that appeared under this title in 1861 and 1...

In this 1891 work, Harris re-exams the imperative need to consider new approaches to the defense ...