King Solomon’s Mines is the story of the leader Allan Quatermain and his adventurous group of followers on their mission to find the lost brother of a...
Their patriotic sacrifices were made with an enthusiasm that showed the earnest spirit ready on every occasion to appear in generous acts. Some gave t...
Youth And The Bright Medusa comprises eight short stories published in 1920. Four of them (The Sculptor’s Funeral; A Death In The Desert; A Wagner Mat...
An ascetic hermit of the Egyptian desert, journeys to Alexandria to find Thais, the libertine beauty whom he knew as a youth. Masquerading as a dandy,...
Our Journey to Sinai by Agnes Bensly is the story of a visit to Saint Catherine's by a group of British scholars in the 1890's, who were drawn there i...
The Tragedy of the Korosko (1898) is a novel by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. It was serialized a year earlier in The Strand magazine between May and Decemb...
The Reverend Thomas Guthrie was first introduced to the idea of ragged schools in 1841, while acting as the Parish Minister of St. John's Church in Ed...
As told to a group of Bedouins as they sit around the fire, this tale , set in the Arabian desert, tells of a Holy Man accused of murder, and forced t...
Gertrude Bell's Syria: The Desert and the Sown describes her travels in the Levant (also called Greater Syria) during the first years of the 20th cent...
In this latest and most delightful book Mary's desire to visit "The Locusts," the old home of the "Little Colonel," is gratified, and the environment...
This is Apples in Leaflet No. 312 from the U. S. Department of Agriculture Bureau of Human Nutrition and Home Economics. After a short introduction to...
It tells the story of a man named Hugh Mottram who goes on a journey of self-discovery and adventure in the American Southwest. The novel was first pu...
It is the story of three men and a young woman named Barbara Worth, as they navigate the challenges of living in the American West in the early 1900s....
Embark on an extraordinary journey through the desolate expanses of the uncharted Libyan Desert, where secrets of ancient civilizations lie buried ben...
In the scorching heat of the Australian outback, six horses race down a dry creek bed, their riders desperate to reach water before it's too late.
"O...
Embark on an extraordinary expedition through the heart of the desert in "Through Timbuctu and Across the Great Sahara" by Austin H. W. Haywood. In an...
The City That Was is a mystery novel that will take you on a journey to a lost city.
The year is 1876. A young woman named Elizabeth travels to the A...
Learn from the culinary pioneer who taught America how to cook with Juliet Corson's A Course of Lectures on the Principles of Domestic Economy and Coo...
In the rugged expanse of the American West, a lone rider emerges from the desolate plains, shrouded in an aura of mystery and intrigue. This enigmatic...
