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Fur, Fortune, and Empire
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Eric Jay Dolin |
In Fur, Fortune, and Empire, best-selling author Eric Jay Dolin chronicles the rise and fall of the fur trade of old, when the rallying cry was "get the furs while they last." Beavers, sea otters, an… |
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Seeing the first Australians
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Tamsin Donaldson,Ian Donaldson |
First sight / Ian Donaldson & Tamsin Donaldson -- The first European depictions / Bernard Smith -- Reactions on Cook's voyage / Glyndwr Williams -- Savage sportsmen / James Urry -- The Darwinian pers… |
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European and native American warfare, 1675-1815
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Armstrong Starkey |
Challenging the historical tradition that has denigrated Indians as 'savages' and celebrated the triumph of European 'civilization', Armstrong Starkey presents military history as only one dimension … |
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A voyage long and strange
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Tony Horwitz |
The bestselling author of Blue Latitudes takes us on a thrilling and eye-opening voyage to pre-Mayflower America
On a chance visit to Plymouth Rock, Tony Horwitz realizes he’s mislaid more than a … |
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Heart of Darkness
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Joseph Conrad |
Heart of Darkness (1899) is a novella by Polish-English novelist Joseph Conrad, about a voyage up the Congo River into the Congo Free State, in the heart of Africa, by the story's narrator Charles Ma… |
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Mamelouka
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Robert Solé |
In the early days of photography, a woman painter in 1890s Egypt marries a portrait photographer and becomes so good at his profession he gets jealous, sending her into the arms of a British officer.… |
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