Richard Henry Dana, Jr.
Tracing an awe-inspiring oceanic route from Boston, around Cape Horn, to the California coast, Two Years Before the Mast is both a riveting story of adventure and the most eloquent, insightful account we have of life at sea in the early ... [... more]
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Two Years Before the Mast
 What He Did on His Vacation: Richard Henry Dana suffered from measles while a student at Harvard in 1834. Rather than suffer a slow recovery from weakened eyesight, he shipped out as a common sailor, rather than as a passenger, on a long sea voyage. [... more]
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Two Years Before the Mast: And Twenty-Four Years After
Fantastic, You Must Read This!: I know many people cringe at the thought of reading a narrative that seems to greatly resemble Moby Dick, but I tell you this better than Moby Dick and easy makes it into my top ten books I have ever read! Occassionally [... more]
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Two Years Before the Mast: A Personal Narrative of Life ...
What He Did on His Vacation: Richard Henry Dana suffered from measles while a student at Harvard in 1834. Rather than suffer a slow recovery from weakened eyesight, he shipped out as a common sailor, rather than as a passenger, on a long sea voyage. [... more]
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Unwise Passions: A True Story of a Remarkable ...
From Amazon.com: Unwise Passions traces the trajectory of aristocrat Nancy Randolph's tempestuous life, beginning with her privileged birth in 1774, continuing through a series of scandals that eventually sent her North, and concluding with her death in 1 [... more]
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Reading Early American Handwriting
Terrific resource on a difficult subject: A serious genealogist does not depend on published versions of records but goes directly to the originals at the courthouse or the archives, and in doing this, he runs immediately into a sometimes startling [... more]
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The Signers
The 56 men who signed the nation's birth certificate: "The Signers" tells "The 56 Stories Behind the Declaration of Independence." Okay, so, riddle me this: how many of those 56 can you name before you read this book? John Hancock, [... more]
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Two Years Before the Mast
What He Did on His Vacation: Richard Henry Dana suffered from measles while a student at Harvard in 1834. Rather than suffer a slow recovery from weakened eyesight, he shipped out as a common sailor, rather than as a passenger, on a long sea voyage. [... more]
CDN$16.37
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California: With Classic California Writings
From Amazon.com: Ansel Adams may be one of the most famous nature photographers ever, but his often-overlooked portraits of people and images of buildings and manmade landscapes are as stirring and beautiful as his inimitable wilderness photographs. This [... more]
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Great Speeches & Soliloques
Binding: Audio CD EAN: 0730099001526 Format: Compilation Format: Explicit Lyrics Number Of Discs: 2 Original Release Date: 1994-01-01 Release Date: 1997-09-05 UPC: 730099001526 Tracks: Richard II: Act 2, Scene 1 John of Gaunt Richard II: Act 3, Scene 2 [... more]
CDN$15.99
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Two Years Before the Mast: A Personal Narrative
What He Did on His Vacation: Richard Henry Dana suffered from measles while a student at Harvard in 1834. Rather than suffer a slow recovery from weakened eyesight, he shipped out as a common sailor, rather than as a passenger, on a long sea voyage. [... more]
CDN$14.95
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1776 : Various (Orig Cast Recording)
From Amazon.com: Evidence that one can make a musical about anything, Exhibit A: 1776. As one might expect, the whole concept of making a musical about the creation and signing of the Declaration of Independence was greeted in the late 1960s with, well, [... more]
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