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Ponkapog Papers

Thomas Bailey Aldrich

Publisher: Good Press

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Summary

The Ponkapog Papers is a book about travel. This fascinating book contains wonderful landscape descriptions of Ponkapog and Pesth of Massachusetts. Excerpt: "IN his Memoirs, Kropotkin states the singular fact that the natives of the Malayan Archipelago have an idea that something is extracted from them when their likenesses are taken by photography…"
Available since: 11/29/2019.
Print length: 75 pages.

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