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28 - Book First, Chapters 40 to 44. Concerning the great province of Tangut. Of…

In The Book of Ser Marco Polo, the Venetian, concerning the kingdoms and marvels o…

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Rustichello da Pisa and Rustichello Da Pisa


"Books of the Marvels of the World" or "Description of the World" (Divisament dou monde), also nicknamed "Il Milion…

23 - Chapter 23 A Bivouac

In The Peril Finders

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George Fenn and George Manville Fenn


In California settlers are trying to make a living working as fruit-growers. Problems with blights and insects mean that the crops are faili…

The Seeker for Help Part 1

In The Guns of Bull Run

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Joseph A. Altsheler


The first volume in the Civil War series, following the adventures of Harry Kenton, who leaves his home in Kentucky. He travels through dang…

Part 3 The Evidences of Evolution – Section 3 Paleontology – Chapter 36b Camels

In Organic Evolution

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Richard Swann Lull


Organic Evolution is a college textbook that describes the mechanism of biological evolution by natural selection. It then explores the evid…

Chapter III: The Historians. Part 1

In Victorian Literature

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Clement Shorter


Victorian Literature by Clement Shorter is a brief work that gives a good introduction to many of the important writers, historians, and cri…

32 - The Tiger

In The Red and the Black, Volume II

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Stendhal


Stendhal - a German pen-name for a French writer who hated the English. Contemporary to some of the great names of French literature like Ba…

Chapter LIX

In The Pharaoh and the Priest

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Bolesław Prus


The Pharaoh and the Priest (Polish: Faraon) is the fourth and last major novel by the Polish writer Bolesław Prus. It was the sole historica…

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