Domestic Manners of the Americans
Frances Trollope and Elsie B. Michie (ed.)
It appeared to me that the greatest and best feelings of the human heart were paralyzed by the relative positions of slave and owner.’ In Domestic Manners of the Americans, Frances Trollope ...
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Journals: Captain Scott’s Last Expedition
Robert Falcon Scott and Max Jones (ed.)
Captain Scott’s harrowing account of his expedition to the South Pole in 1910-12 was first published in 1913. In his journals Scott records his party’s optimistic departure from New ...
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A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland and the Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides
Samuel Johnson, James Boswell, Jack Lynch (ed.), and Celia Barnes (ed.)
I had desired to visit the Hebrides, or Western Islands of Scotland, so long, that I scarcely remember how the wish was originally excited;* and was in the Autumn of the year 1773 induced ...
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Travel Writing 1700-1830: An Anthology
Elizabeth A. Bohls and Ian Duncan (eds)
How is the mind agitated and bewildered, at being thus, as it were, placed on the borders of a new world!' (William Bartram) 'Thus you see, dear sister, the manners of mankind do not differ ...
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