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Chapter XVI: The Aurora's Drift, part 2

In South! The Story of Shackleton's Last Expedition 1914-1917

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Ernest Shackleton

Shackleton's most famous expedition was planned to be an attempt to cross Antarctica from the Weddell Sea south of the Atlantic to the Ross …

Extermination Of Birds For Women's Hats

In Our Vanishing Wild Life

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William T. Hornaday

We are weary of witnessing the greed, selfishness and cruelty of "civilized" man toward the wild creatures of the earth. We are si…

The Owl's Ear

In Library of the World's Best Mystery and Detective Stories, Volume 4

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Erckmann-Chatrian and Émile Erckmann

In the six volumes of the Library of the World's Best Mystery and Detective Stories, Julian Hawthorne presents us thrilling and mysterious s…

The Expert and How to Make Use of Him i

In Criminal Investigation: a Practical Handbook for Magistrates, Police Officers a…

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Hans Gross

Reputedly inspired by the Sherlock Holmes stories, Austrian criminal jurist and examining magistrate Hans Gross wrote the first handbook on …

23 - Butscha Distinguishes himself

In Modeste Mignon

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Honoré de Balzac

Modeste Mignon, a young provincial woman of romantic temperament, imagines herself to be in love with the famous Parisian poet Melchior de C…

Chapter Two

In Dodo: A Detail of the Day

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E. F. Benson

Fashionably controversial bestseller at the time of appearance (1893), portraying London "society" in the Fin de Siècle. Do…

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