Genre
Non-fiction.
At dot books, our non-fiction shelves hum with stories of real-life adventure, intellectual quests, and forgotten histories. From the philosophical masterpiece Critique of Pure Reason to the swashbuckling suppression of piracy in Borneo and the intimate Choctaw Freedmen, every volume is a doorway to a vivid, true world. Whether you’re drawn to grand ideas or human dramas, you’ll find a book here that stays with you long after the last page.
History
The Expedition to Borneo of H.M.S. Dido: For the Suppression of Piracy
A Victorian naval memoir of anti-piracy patrols along the Borneo coast, entwined with the extraordinary career of James Brooke, the English adventurer who became Rajah of Sarawak.
$8.00
History
Home Life in Colonial Days
Alice Morse Earle's richly detailed portrait of everyday life in early America — the homes, food, work, and customs of colonial households.
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$8.00
History
The Minority of Henry the Third
A scholarly history of the turbulent early years of King Henry III of England, when a boy king inherited a realm in crisis and others governed in his name during his minority.
$8.00
Non-fiction
The Sailor's Word-Book
A rich and comprehensive dictionary of nautical terms from the age of sail, gathering the vast working vocabulary of ships and seamen into one authoritative and endlessly browsable
$8.00
Historical Fiction
The Knights of the Cross, or, Krzyzacy: Historical Romance
Henryk Sienkiewicz's sweeping medieval epic of Poland and the Teutonic Knights, culminating in the clash of arms that would decide a kingdom's fate.
$8.00
Biography & Memoir
My own story
A first-person memoir told in the author's own voice, recounting a remarkable life and the struggles, convictions, and events that shaped it.
$8.00
Biography & Memoir
Memoirs and Correspondence of Admiral Lord de Saumarez. Vol II
The second volume of a life told largely through the letters of a leading Royal Navy commander of the Napoleonic wars.
$8.00
Essays
Daily stories of Pennsylvania : $b prepared for publication in the leading daily newspapers of the state
A collection of short stories about Pennsylvania, originally prepared for publication in the state's leading daily newspapers, offering brief tales drawn from its people, places an
$8.00
Non-fiction
The Faith of Our Fathers
Cardinal Gibbons's enduring explanation and defense of Catholic belief, written in plain, generous prose for believers, seekers, and the simply curious alike.
$8.00
Non-fiction
Creative Evolution
Henri Bergson’s major philosophical work rethinks life, mind, time, and change through a bold critique of mechanism and a dynamic account of evolution.
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$8.00
Non-fiction
The Approach to Philosophy
An inviting introduction to philosophical thinking, written to lead newcomers past jargon and into the real questions.
$8.00
Non-fiction
The Varieties of Religious Experience
William James's landmark study of religion as lived personal experience, examining conversion, mysticism, saintliness, and the inner life of faith with the eye of a pioneering psyc
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$8.00
Classics
The Book of the Courtier
Baldassare Castiglione's Renaissance dialogue imagines the perfect courtier over four candlelit evenings at Urbino, weighing grace, wit, love and virtue with the ease of good compa
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$8.00
Non-fiction
Folkways
William Graham Sumner's influential study of how customs, habits, and mores shape human societies.
$8.50
Fiction
The Chautauqua Girls At Home
A warm-hearted story of young women returning from a religious gathering determined to live out their new faith, carrying earnest ideals into the tests of everyday life.
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$8.00
Non-fiction
On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection: or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life
Charles Darwin's world-changing 1859 work, laying out the theory of evolution by natural selection with patient evidence and cautious brilliance.
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$8.00
Non-fiction
The Spanish American Reader
A classic Spanish-language reader assembling passages for students of the language and of Spanish American life and letters.
$8.00
Biography & Memoir
Captain Canot
The vivid, troubling first-hand narrative of a nineteenth-century adventurer's years in the Atlantic slave trade.
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$8.00
Biography & Memoir
William Pitt and national revival
A historical study of William Pitt the Younger and Britain's recovery and resurgence under his leadership.
$8.00
History
The Prairie Traveler
Randolph B.
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Biography & Memoir
Beatrice d'Este, Duchess of Milan, 1475-1497
Julia Cartwright's graceful biography brings to life Beatrice d'Este, the brilliant young Duchess of Milan whose short career sat at the dazzling, dangerous centre of the Italian R
$8.00
History
Roman Public Life
A scholarly survey of the institutions of ancient Rome, its magistrates, assemblies, senate, and law, explaining how the Republic and Empire were actually governed.
$8.00
History
The Legacy of Greece: Essays By: Gilbert Murray, W. R. Inge, J. Burnet, Sir T. L. Heath, D'arcy W. Thompson, Charles Sin
A distinguished collection of essays surveying what the modern world owes to ancient Greece, from philosophy and science to art, literature, and religion.
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$8.00
Adventure
Ten Thousand Miles with a Dog Sled
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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$8.00
Essays
Hobson-Jobson
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
$8.00
Non-fiction
Ethics
A foundational inquiry into how we ought to live and what makes conduct right or good.
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$8.00
Classics
The History of the Peloponnesian War
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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$8.00
Biography & Memoir
Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte — Complete
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
$8.00
Non-fiction
Astronomy for Amateurs
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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$8.00
Non-fiction
India, Its Life and Thought
A historically revealing survey of Indian society and religion, best read today with attention to its missionary-colonial perspective.
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$8.00
History
Complete Story of the San Francisco Horror
A contemporary account of the catastrophic 1906 San Francisco earthquake and fire, gathering the terrible events into a single dramatic record.
$8.00
Non-fiction
Roget's Thesaurus
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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$8.50
Classics
Apology
Plato’s compact defense of Socrates joins courtroom speech to enduring questions about philosophy and conscience.
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$8.00
Biography & Memoir
Twelve Years a Slave: Narrative of Solomon Northup, a Citizen of New-York, Kidnapped in Washington City in 1841, and Res
Solomon Northup's searing 1853 memoir: a free Black man from New York, lured south and kidnapped into slavery in Louisiana, endures twelve years in bondage before his desperate str
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$5.00
Classics
The Sceptical Chymist: or Chymico-Physical Doubts & Paradoxes, Touching the Spagyrist's Principles Commonly call'd Hypos
Robert Boyle's landmark 1661 dialogue challenges the old doctrines of the alchemists and Aristotelians, pressing the questions that would help turn alchemy into modern chemistry.
$8.00
History
Seneca Fiction, Legends, and Myths: Thirty-Second Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology; 1910-1911
Seneca Fiction, Legends, and Myths: Thirty-Second Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology; 1910-1911 is a polished DotBooks classic tale collection for readers who want w
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$7.50
History
Comic History of the United States
Bill Nye’s illustrated satirical history turns major episodes of the American past into brisk, deadpan comic sketches.
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$8.00
History
A History of Elizabethan Literature
George Saintsbury's sweeping survey of the golden age of English writing, from its poets and dramatists to its prose.
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$8.00
Non-fiction
A Treatise on Domestic Economy; For the Use of Young Ladies at Home and at School
Catharine Esther Beecher’s influential nineteenth-century manual blends household management, health guidance, moral instruction, and practical advice for domestic life and educati
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$8.00
Biography & Memoir
Slave Narratives
First-person testimony of enslaved and formerly enslaved people, preserving in their own words the experience of bondage, resistance and the long reach toward freedom in America.
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Biography & Memoir
A Little English Gallery
Louise Imogen Guiney's A Little English Gallery gathers graceful literary portraits of Lady Danvers, Henry Vaughan, George Farquhar, Beauclerk and Langton, and William Hazlitt.
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$8.00
Non-fiction
All about coffee
William H.
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$8.00
History
Warships and their story
A popular history of the fighting ship, tracing how vessels of war evolved across the ages.
$8.00
History
Famous Affinities of History
A collection of the great love stories of history, retelling the famous romances and attachments of kings, queens, and celebrated figures.
$8.00
Biography & Memoir
A Daughter of the Middle Border
Hamlin Garland's Pulitzer-winning memoir of prairie life, family, and hard-won artistic ambition, a warm, clear-eyed portrait of the American Midwest and the people who shaped it.
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$8.00
Art & Design
History of Indian and Eastern Architecture
James Fergusson's monumental survey of the architecture of India and the East, tracing temples, monuments, and building traditions across centuries.
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$8.00
Biography & Memoir
Richard the Lion Heart
A retelling of the crusading English king, his wars in the Holy Land and his legend of chivalry, aimed at readers who love medieval history and heroic biography.
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Biography & Memoir
The Life of Friedrich Schiller: Comprehending an Examination of His Works
Thomas Carlyle's admiring life of the great German poet and dramatist Friedrich Schiller, with a searching study of his plays, poetry, and thought.
$8.00