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Guns, germs, and steel
by Jared M. Diamond
A suitable starting point from which to compare historical developments on the different continents is around 11,000 B.C...
C. Iulii Caesaris Commentarii de bello gallico
by Gaius Julius Caesar, Marieluise Deißmann
Longitude
by Dava Sobel, William J. H. Andrewes
ONCE ON A WEDNESDAY excursion when I was a little girl, my father bought me a beaded wire ball that I loved.
Two years before the mast
by Richard Henry Dana
I am unwilling to present this narrative to the public without a few words in explanation of my reasons for publishing i...
Orientalism
by Edward W. Said
"On June 13, 1910, Arthur James Balfour lectured the House of Commons on ""the problems with which we have to deal in Eg...
Collapse
by Jared M. Diamond
A few summers ago I visited two dairy farms, Huls Farm and Gardar Farm, which despite being located thousands of miles a...
The principall navigations, voiages, and discoveries of the ...
by Richard Hakluyt, Jack Beeching
It hath almost euer bene the custome of nations, in searching out the infancie and first beginnings of their estate, to ...
South: the story of Shackleton's 1914-1917 expedition
by Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton
I HAD DECIDED to leave South Georgia about December 5, and in the intervals of final preparation scanned again the plans...
Tristan und Isolde
by Gottfried von Strassburg, Arthur Thomas Hatto
THERE was a lord in Parmenie of tender years, as I read.
Tuḥfat al-nuẓẓār fī gharāʾib al-amṣār wa-ʻajāʾib al-asfār
by Ibn Batuta, A. R. Gibb
Ibn Battuta, who was born at Tangier in North Africa in 1304 and died not far from there some sixty-five years later, wa...