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  The Romance of Polar Exploration...

  G. Firth Scott

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  The search for the poles from the early navigators to Scott's Discovery: Franklin's ships and their fate, the American attempts, the Greely disaster, the drift of the Fram. G. Firth Scott wrote just after the Discovery came home in 1904, when the poles were the great unfinished business of geography. His chapter on the Franklin searches is careful about the evidence and does not soften what was found. Fifty-seven plates by painters including Caspar David Friedrich and Ivan Aivazovsky carry the ice, light and open water that give these voyages their atmosphere.

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  Alive in the Jungle - A Story...

  Eleanor Stredder

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  A missionary's children are left in an Indian jungle when their escort is scattered, and survive on what an old servant knows. Eleanor Stredder wrote adventure stories for the young with a good deal of natural history in them. The book is plain about the danger and plainer about the fact that the children owe their lives to a man their society would not have thanked. Fifty-seven plates of river bends, buffalo herds and wooded landscapes by painters including Thomas Baines and Frederic Edwin Church carry the wild country the children cross.

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  Harry heathcote of gangoil

  Anthony Trollope

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  HARRY HEATHCOTE OF GANGOIL by Anthony Trollope is offered here in a clean English digital edition prepared for fluent ebook reading. The work stands within classics and gives modern readers direct access to a public-domain classic with navigable structure and a restrained typographic presentation. The opening pages establish the book's atmosphere with this first movement: This novel was first published in 1874 and concerns the young Englishman, Harry Heathcote, who has leased 120,000 acres of bush from the Australian government, on which he ran 30,000 sheep. This edition is suited to readers who want a reliable, uncluttered version of the text for study, rediscovery, and sustained reading.

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  The Trail of the Lonesome Pine -...

  John Fox Jr.

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  A mountain girl in the Cumberland gap, an engineer from the flatland who comes to open the coal, and a feud that predates both of them. Fox lived among the mountain people he wrote about; this was one of the best-selling American novels of its decade and made the folded hills into a national picture. Forty-four plates by painters from Winslow Homer to James McNeill Whistler follow the mountain girl from girlhood to womanhood, matching the novel's progress from lonesome trail to settled valley.

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  The Song of Justice - From their...

  Rainer Maria Rilke

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  René Karl Wilhelm Johann Josef Maria Rilke was born into a troubled marriage on the 4th December 1875 in Prague, then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.  His mother, having previously lost a baby girl, would dress the young boy up in girl’s clothing.   
  Later his father dispatched him to a military academy at age 10 but after a miserable 5 years the young Rilke left due to illness and instead entered first Prague and then Munich and finally Berlin university to study art history, philosophy and literature. 
  His initial forays into literature was in poetry.  His intense, mystical and lyrical style was much admired and over time inspired many in succeeding generations.    
  His short prose collection ‘Stories of God’, written in an impassioned burst over several nights was published in 1900 and offers a beguiling view of much of Rilke’s influences and outlook.  
  The following year he married the pioneering sculptor and artist Clara Westhoff.  The union produced one child, a daughter Ruth.   
  He lived in Paris for most of the Century’s first decade where he mixed with many great minds of the time.  Although he continued to write he also worked as a secretary to the sculptor, Rodin.   
  It was only after they settled in Switzerland in 1919 that his writing output was in full flow.  Here he wrote profusely in both German and French, which included much on his previous travels, his left-wing sympathies, his religious and existential thoughts, all part of a unique and consummate style. 
  From 1923 on, Rilke increasingly struggled with his health which was now in constant decline and often spent time rehabilitating at a sanatorium.   
  Rainer Maria Rilke died of leukaemia on the 29th December 1926 in Montreux, Switzerland.  He was 51.

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  White Nights

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

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  For four luminous nights, two lonely souls find refuge in each other beneath the pale summer sky of St. Petersburg. 
   
  Known only as the Dreamer, a sensitive and solitary young man has spent years retreating from ordinary life into an elaborate world of imagination. He wanders the city alone, forming silent attachments to its streets, buildings, and passing strangers while longing for a genuine human connection. 
   
  Then, beside a canal during one of St. Petersburg’s celebrated white nights, he meets Nastenka. 
   
  She is young, heartbroken, and waiting for a former lodger who promised to return and marry her. As the Dreamer listens to her story, the two form an immediate and tender friendship. Over four unforgettable nights, they share their fears, hopes, disappointments, and dreams of a happier future. 
   
  But while Nastenka waits for the man she already loves, the Dreamer begins imagining a life with her. 
   
  Caught between fantasy and reality, devotion and desire, he must decide whether one perfect moment of happiness can be enough—even when it cannot last. 
   
  Tender, intimate, and quietly devastating, Fyodor Dostoevsky’s *White Nights* is a timeless exploration of loneliness, unrequited love, romantic illusion, and the painful courage required to step beyond the safety of one’s dreams. 
   
  Narrated by Miguel Khoury.

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