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JAMES RODWAY THE WEST INDIES AND THE SPANISH MAIN [1899]

Adventure
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Ages 18 and up
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The story of the West Indies and Spanish Main is one to stir the hearts of many nations. The shores of the Caribbean Sea have been the scene of marvellous adventures, of intense struggles between races and peoples, of pain, trouble, and disaster of almost every description. No wonder that the romance writer has laid his scenes upon its beautiful islands and deep blue waters, for nowhere in the world, perhaps, could he find such a wealth of incident. From "Robinson Crusoe" to Marryat's genial stories, and down to "Westward Ho!" and "Treasure Island," old and young have been entranced for many generations with its stories of shipwrecks, pirates, sea-fights, and treasure-seekers. Yet with all this the field has not been exhausted, for hardly a year passes without a new romance dealing more or less with the "Indies." [more]

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Lafcadio Hearn Two Years In The French West Indies

Travel
English
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Ages 18 and up
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Patrick Lafcadio Hearn (/hɜrn/; 27 June 1850 – 26 September 1904), known also by the Japanese name Koizumi Yakumo (小泉八雲?), was an international writer, known best for his books about Japan, especially his collections of Japanese legends and ghost stories, such as Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things. In the United States, Hearn is also known for his writings about the city of New Orleans based on his ten-year stay in that city. [more]

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Lafcadio Hearn Two Years In The French West Indies

Fiction
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Patrick Lafcadio Hearn (/hɜrn/; 27 June 1850 – 26 September 1904), known also by the Japanese name Koizumi Yakumo (小泉八雲?), was an international writer, known best for his books about Japan, especially his collections of Japanese legends and ghost stories, such as Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things. In the United States, Hearn is also known for his writings about the city of New Orleans based on his ten-year stay in that city. [more]

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Lafcadio Hearn Two Years In the French West Indies (fiscle part-3)

Romance
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Ages 18 and up
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... A Long, Narrow, Graceful Steel Steamer, With Two Masts And An Orange-Yellow Chimney,--Taking on Cargo At Pier 49 East River. Through Her Yawning hatchways A Mountainous Piling up Of Barrels Is Visible Below;--There Is Much Rumbling and Rattling of Steam- Winches, Creaking of Derrick-Booms, Groaning of Pulleys As The Freight Is Being lowered in. A Breezeless July Morning, And A Dead Heat,--87° Already. [more]

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Lafcadio Hearn Two Years In The French West Indies (Fiscle Part-VI)

Travel
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During A Trip To The Lesser Antilles In The Summer Of 1887, The Writer Of The Following Pages, Landing At Martinique, Fell Under The Influence Of That Singular Spell Which The Island Has Always Exercised Upon Strangers, And By Which It Has Earned Its Poetic Name,--_Le Pays Des Revenants_. Even As Many Another Before Him, He Left Its Charmed Shores Only To Know Himself Haunted By That Irresistible Regret,--Unlike Any Other,--Which Is The Enchantment Of The Land Upon All Who Wander Away From It. So He Returned, Intending To Remain Some Months; But The Bewitchment Prevailed, And He Remained Two Years. [more]

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Lafcadio Hearn Two Years In The French West Indies (Fiscle Part-Xi)

Philosophy
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During A Trip To The Lesser Antilles In The Summer Of [more]

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Lafcadio Hearn Two Years In the French West Indies (fiscle part-VI)

Fiction
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Ages 18 and up
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Patrick Lafcadio Hearn (/hɜrn/; 27 June 1850 – 26 September 1904), known also by the Japanese name Koizumi Yakumo (小泉八雲?), was an international writer, known best for his books about Japan, especially his collections of Japanese legends and ghost stories, such as Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things. In the United States, Hearn is also known for his writings about the city of New Orleans based on his ten-year stay in that city. [more]

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Clarence Henry Haring The Buccaneers in the West Indies in the XVII Century

Fiction
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Clarence Henry Haring (born 9 February 1885 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania - died 4 September 1960 in Cambridge, Massachusetts) was an important historian of Latin America and a pioneer in initiating the study of Latin American colonial institutions among scholars in the United States.The son of a businessman, Henry Getman Haring, and Amelia Stoneback, Clarence Haring received his bachelor of arts degree in modern languages from Harvard University in 1907. [more]

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Lafcadio Hearn Two Years In the French West Indies(fiscle part-3) Of 1

Drama
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Ages 18 and up
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... A Long, Narrow, Graceful Steel Steamer, With Two Masts And An Orange-Yellow Chimney,--Taking on Cargo At Pier 49 East River. Through Her Yawning hatchways A Mountainous Piling up Of Barrels Is Visible Below;--There Is Much Rumbling and Rattling of Steam- Winches, Creaking of Derrick-Booms, Groaning of Pulleys As The Freight Is Being lowered in. A Breezeless July Morning, And A Dead Heat,--87° Already. [more]

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Lafcadio Hearn Two Years In the French West Indies(fiscle part-3) Of 2

Drama
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The First Attempt Made To Colonize Martinique Was Abandoned Almost As Soon As Begun, Because The Leaders Of The Expedition Found The Country "Too Rugged and Too Mountainous," And Were "Terrified by The Prodigious Number Of Serpents Which Covered its Soil." Landing on June 25, 1635, Olive And Duplessis Left The Island After A Few Hours' Exploration, Or, Rather, Observation, And Made Sail For Guadeloupe,--According to The Quaint And Most Veracious History Of PèRe Dutertre, Of The Order Of Friars- Preachers. [more]

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