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The National Geographic Magazine, an illustrated monthly, Vol IX, the February Number. It includes the following articles: Gardiner Greene Hubbard, by Rev. Teunis S. Hamlin, D. D. Gardiner Greene Hubbard, Memorial Meeting Geographic Literature

The National Geographic Magazine, an illustrated monthly, Vol IX, December 1898. It includes the following articles: The Five Civilized Tribes and the Survey of Indian Territory, by C. H. Fitch Cloud Scenery of the High Plains, by Willard D. John...

In the late eighteenth century, English writers discovered the landscape, not only in the paintings of Claude Lorrain, Nicolas Poussin and Salvator Rosa, but also as a place to be visited and viewed as if it were a picture. No part of England was more discovered in this period th...

The National Geographic Magazine, an illustrated monthly, Vol X, May 1899. It includes the following articles: The Redwood Forest of the Pacific Coast, by Henry Gannett Is Climatic Aridity Impending on the Pacific Slope? by J. B. Leiberg

In an age when women were expected to remain at home, entertain, and rear children, Rosita Forbes elected "to boldly go where no one had gone before..." Like her older contemporary, Gertrude Bell (who was focused more in the Persian and Iraqi areas), Forbes held a profound love o...

Exeter, county town of Devon, is one of England's most historic cities with remains of the Roman occupation and medieval times still on view. Exeter cathedral, founded in 1050 and completed 400 years later, has the longest uninterrupted vaulted ceiling in the country. This short ...

Norie's series of piloting and sailing directions was something of a staple in the chart-room of 19th century British (and other) merchant vessels. The description of landmarks and ports, as well as the rules and regulations provide another viewpoint to an earlier age. Please not...

The National Geographic Magazine, an illustrated monthly, the April Number. It includes the following articles: Serilan, by W J McGee and Willard D. Johnson The Olympic Country, by S. C. Gilman, C. E. The Discovery of Glacier Bay, Alaska, by Eliza Ru...

The National Geographic Magazine, an illustrated monthly, the April Number. It includes the following articles: A Summer Voyage to the Arctic, by G. R. Putnam The Area and Drainage Basin of Lake Superior, by Mark W. Harrington The S...

A guide to cycling in the European Alps in the days before surfaced roads and automobile tourism. As the author explains, the spectacular views are well worth the effort of pushing your bicycle up the passes and perfectly safe as long as your cycle is equipped with brakes. Summa...

The illustrator and author Rockwell Kent (1882-1971)wrote and illustrated this description of a trip to Alaska with his eldest son. Though an audiobook listener cannot, of course, see Kent's illustrations, the artist's eye is evident throughout the text. Wilderness: A Journal of ...

London: one of the oldest and most populous cities in the world. Surely it holds a few secrets within its ancient walls and the stories of ghostly presences abound. ...