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Famous Affinities of History: The Romance of Devotion. Vol 1-4, Complete
Lyndon Orr
The magnetic pull of the heart often defies the gravity of duty, leaving behind a trail of broken crowns, scorched reputations, and rewritten histories that haunt the collective memory of the world.
In the forbidden land
Arnold Henry Savage Landor
An explorer pushes deep into the mysterious heights of the Himalayas, where the cold is lethal, the terrain is vertical, and a bounty on his head turns his every step into a desperate flight for survival.
The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume 26 of 55, 1636: Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the Catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century
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A hard-headed governor struggles to command a fractured colonial outpost, where the clash between royal authority, institutional pride, and religious fervor threatens the stability of a distant archipelago.
Southern Arabia
J. Theodore (James Theodore) Bent
The sun beats down on the forgotten ruins of an ancient civilization as two explorers push into the heart of the Arabian desert, charting paths through hostile territory and shifting sands.
Mexico and Its Religion: With Incidents of Travel in That Country During Parts of the Years 1851-52-53-54, and Historical Notices of Events Connected With Places Visited
Robert Anderson Wilson
The veil of history is often woven from the threads of convenience, and these pages serve as a sharp, corrective needle, piercing the myths that have long obscured the true face of a complex land.
Acadia
Frederic S. (Frederic Swartwout) Cozzens
This is the land that heroic hearts have sighed for, yet it remains a neglected, sun-drenched secret waiting for the traveler who dares to look beyond the map.
An African Adventure
Isaac Frederick Marcosson
Beyond the reach of a map, the heartbeat of a continent reveals itself not in the silence of the wild, but in the restless, grinding gears of industry and the ambition of men who view a wilderness as a balance sheet.
The Story of the Heavens
Robert S. (Robert Stawell) Ball
The vast cosmos unfolds through vivid descriptions of the sun, moon, planets, and stars, revealing their motions, mysteries, and the laws that govern them in a journey from Earth’s nearest neighbor to the farthest reaches of the heavens.