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Month: February 2019

The Complete Works of Artemus Ward, Part 4: To California and Return

The Complete Works of Artemus Ward, Part 4: To California and Return by Artemus Ward

The Complete Works of Artemus Ward, Part 4: To California and Return by Artemus Ward

Charles Farrar Browne, a native of Maine, became famous as a writer and lecturer under the name of Artemus Ward. Like his friend Mark Twain, Browne worked as a type-setter in his youth and in 1858, began publishing a series of letters, essays, and stories told in the first person by a droll, illiterate rube with a good measure of subtle common sense who commented on the events and fads of the day. Taking his character to the stage as a lecturer, Browne became an early-day prototype of what we now name a stand-up comedian. Artemus Ward was such a favorite of President Abraham Lincoln that the chief executive read one of the Ward stories to his assembled cabinet officers before getting down to the business of discussing the proposed Emancipation Proclamation. Browne’s writings became popular in England as well as in America, and he travelled to Britain to perform his Artemus Ward lectures and contribute to the comic magazine Punch. Browne contracted tuberculosis and died at the age of thirty-two in Southampton. (There was a real Artemus Ward, a general in the Continental Army during the American Revolution.)

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Explorers and Travellers

Explorers and Travellers by Adolphus W. Greely

Explorers and Travellers by Adolphus W. Greely

“Explorers and Travellers” is a collection of short biographies of some of America’s intrepid explorers. Adolphus W. Greely writes brief but very complete histories of men who risked life and fortune to discover more of our world. A thoroughly enjoyable work if you enjoy exploration and adventure

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Celebrated Women Travellers of the Nineteenth Century

Celebrated Women Travellers of the Nineteenth Century by W. H. Davenport Adams

Celebrated Women Travellers of the Nineteenth Century by W. H. Davenport Adams

The nineteenth century saw the expansion in popularity of travel among the wealthy. Add to this the independence more women were enjoying as they were released from work in the home, and we have the recipe for some intrepid female travelers. Here we see the stories of just some such adventurous women.

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How to Camp Out

How to Camp Out by John Mead Gould

How to Camp Out by John Mead Gould

Advice on camp gear, clothing, cooking, hiking, and other topics. Much of the book remains good and sensible advice today, but modern readers may be amused by Maj. Gould’s few remarks on ladies, who “must be cared for more tenderly than men.”

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