The Log of a Sea-waif


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The Innocents Abroad


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Reprint of the original, first published in 1869.




The Wartime Journal of a Georgia Girl


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"The Wartime Journal of a Georgia Girl" is Eliza Frances Andrews' diary in which she describes in detail the situation in Georgia during the last year of the Civil War. Andrews wrote about the anger and despair of Confederate citizens, caused by the General Sherman's devastation.







Paddy's Lament, Ireland 1846-1847


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Ireland in the mid-1800s was primarily a population of peasants, forced to live on a single, moderately nutritious crop: potatoes. Suddenly, in 1846, an unknown and uncontrollable disease turned the potato crop to inedible slime, and all Ireland was threatened. Index.




The Smoke of the Gods


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From the author of The Spirits of America, an energetic history of tobacco use.