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Explorations in Australia: The Journals of John McDouall Stuart During the Years 1858, 1859, 1860, 1861, and 1862, When He Fixed the Centre of the Continent and Successfully Crossed It from Sea to Sea
John McDouall Stuart
A dry wind sweeps over miles of spinifex and salt-encrusted plain as a handful of men push deeper into an uncharted continent, tracking scarce waterholes and carving a path from coast to coast.
The Highland bagpipe
W. L. (William Laird) Manson
An instrument capable of rallying armies on battlefield knolls can also incite fierce feuds, unseat a rider in Chicago, or be cast into a ditch by an offended elephant.
History of Phosphorus
Eduard Farber
Accidental discoveries in alchemical cauldrons can ignite centuries of scientific revolution, transforming human understanding of life, medicine, industry, and the fundamental architecture of matter itself.
The Danube
Walter Jerrold
A sweeping journey along Europe’s grandest river reveals a landscape alive with ancient Roman ruins, medieval legends, and dynamic cities.
The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume 35, 1640-1649: 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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Shadowed by the global rivalries of the seventeenth century, a distant archipelago becomes the arena where Spanish friars, Dutch privateers, and indigenous leaders clash over faith, trade, and territory.