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Hudson Stuck's vivid record of winter journeys by dog sled across Alaska, a missionary-explorer's account of the far North, its trails, peoples and unforgiving cold.

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The famous Anglo-Indian glossary that traces how words like bungalow, shampoo, curry and pyjama passed from India into English, part dictionary, part treasure-house of colonial enc

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A foundational inquiry into how we ought to live and what makes conduct right or good.

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An early Sinclair Lewis novel about a restless young American who trades the flatness of small-town life for the open sky, finding in flight and ambition a new kind of frontier.

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A vivid gallery of frontier types drawn from the border life of the American West, sketching the settlers, adventurers and originals who peopled a raw and changing land.

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The History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides is a foundational work of history and political realism on war, power, leadership, rhetoric, and civil conflict.

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A young woman is found dead beneath the seat of a railway carriage, her jewels missing, and Hercule Poirot untangles a crime of theft, deception and family secrets in this compact

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A Journey to the Center of the Earth by Jules Verne is a foundational science-fiction adventure filled with subterranean wonder, peril, discovery, and scientific imagination.

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An insider's sweeping memoir of Napoleon Bonaparte, tracing his rise from soldier to emperor and his fall, drawn from close personal acquaintance with one of history's most consequ

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A generous story collection offering a tale for every week of the year, gathered for young readers.

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Camille Flammarion's beloved introduction to the night sky, written to make the heavens accessible to anyone willing to look up.

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A historically revealing survey of Indian society and religion, best read today with attention to its missionary-colonial perspective.

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Agatha Christie's short case sends Hercule Poirot after a dead man's hidden testament, a puzzle set as a deliberate test of wits, solved by the little Belgian's endlessly methodica

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The short, incendiary pamphlet by Marx and Engels that reframed history as a struggle between classes.

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A twisting Victorian mystery of stolen jewels, hidden identities and patient detection, in which a determined investigator works to unmask the schemers behind a web of theft and de

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Ingersoll Lockwood's curious Victorian fantasy.

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Thornton Burgess's charming natural-history storybook, introducing young readers to the birds and mammals of the American wild through the gentle lessons of Mother Nature and her w

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A contemporary account of the catastrophic 1906 San Francisco earthquake and fire, gathering the terrible events into a single dramatic record.

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A short novel about love, memory, and the ache of a passion recalled from later life.

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Twain and Warner’s satirical novel exposes speculation, corruption, boosterism, and political performance in post–Civil War America.

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The most famous word-finder in the English language: Peter Mark Roget's great map of meaning, grouping the tongue's riches by idea rather than alphabet.

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A witty gallery of English character sketches from the early seventeenth century, portraying types high and low with sharp observation and dry humour.

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Plato’s compact defense of Socrates joins courtroom speech to enduring questions about philosophy and conscience.

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