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Scientific Results of a Journey in Central Asia 1899 – 1902. Vol. 1: The Tarim River

Scientific Results of a Journey in Central Asia 1899 – 1902. Vol. 1: The Tarim River – Sven Hedin

Hedin’s expedition notes laid the foundations for a precise mapping of Central Asia. He was one of the first European scientific explorers to employ indigenous scientists and research assistants on his expeditions. Although primarily an explorer, he was also the first to unearth the ruins of ancient Buddhist cities in Chinese Central Asia. However, as his main interest in archaeology was finding ancient cities, he had little interest in gathering data thorough scientific excavations. Of small stature, with a bookish, bespectacled appearance, Hedin nevertheless proved himself a determined explorer, surviving several close brushes with death from hostile forces and the elements … Read more.../Mehr lesen ...

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Trans-Himalaya – Discoveries and Adventurers in Tibet, Vol. 2

Trans-Himalaya – Discoveries and Adventurers in Tibet, Vol. 2 – Sven Hedin

One of the most important travel books ever written is the story of Dr. Sven Hedin’s discoveries and adventures in Tibet, which he has brought out in two volumes under the general title “Trans-Himalaya.” Besides being a closely woven, carefully prepared account of the achievements of a scientific explorer, geographer, and ethnologist, this work is an entertainingly told story of startling experiences, exciting adventures, and really remarkable achievements in the field of exploration. The expedition of this Swedish explorer started in August, 1906, entering the Forbidden Land from the northwest. He thoroughly explored the country, penetrating with the aid of his thirty-seven Asiatic followers into sections in which … Read more.../Mehr lesen ...

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Trans-Himalaya – Discoveries and Adventurers in Tibet, Vol. 1

Trans-Himalaya – Discoveries and Adventurers in Tibet, Vol. 1 – Sven Hedin

One of the most important travel books ever written is the story of Dr. Sven Hedin’s discoveries and adventures in Tibet, which he has brought out in two volumes under the general title “Trans-Himalaya.” Besides being a closely woven, carefully prepared account of the achievements of a scientific explorer, geographer, and ethnologist, this work is an entertainingly told story of startling experiences, exciting adventures, and really remarkable achievements in the field of exploration. The expedition of this Swedish explorer started in August, 1906, entering the Forbidden Land from the northwest. He thoroughly explored the country, penetrating with the aid of his thirty-seven Asiatic followers into sections in which … Read more.../Mehr lesen ...

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The Care of Children, in Sickness and Health

The Care of Children, in Sickness and Health – Sebastian Kneipp

In this little work Father Kneipp sets forth the happiness, responsibilities and duties of motherhood, and he instructs mothers how to order their lives and how best to bring up their children. Father Kneipp also gives simple directions for dealing with the usual diseases of children. Sebastian Kneipp became known for the “Kneipp cure,” which he advocated for years. This method was based on water, fresh air, sunshine and a scheme of regular activity, and included walking barefoot in dew-moistened grass and on snow.

The Care of Children, in Sickness and Health

The Care of Children, in Sickness and Health.

Format: eBook.

The Care of Children, in Sickness and Health.

ISBN eBook: 9783849660611

 

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The Kneipp Cure: A Health Reform For Your Body

The Kneipp Cure: A Health Reform For Your Body – Sebastian Kneipp

Scarcely ever has a book found its way through Europe and the whole civilized world in so incredibly short a time as the little volume of which this is a translation. Finding help nowhere and lacking both physical and mental strength due to his failing health, the young author was left to spend his time in the royal library. Here one day an old little book attracts his curiosity, he opens it, it treats of water-cures. This moment was to be a turning-point in his life. The contents of the small unsightly volume were to be the rough outline of a plan which, in its completion, has become … Read more.../Mehr lesen ...

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Jerry Junior

Jerry Junior – Jean Webster

‘Jerry Junior’, by Jean Webster, is a delightful little romance for light reading. The hero, an ingenious American youth, finds himself stranded at an Italian hotel with no diversion but the view, the head waiter, and the parrot, whose vocabulary is enlarged with some choice American expressions. In a pink villa, not far from the hotel, lives an American girl, who occasionally visits the hotel. The youth falls a victim to her charms and when she wishes to engage a guide, he bribes his friend, the waiter, to let him play the role. It subsequently develops that the girl is an intimate friend of the hero’s sister, with the inevitable result. The author has a … Read more.../Mehr lesen ...

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The Wheat Princess

The Wheat Princess – Jean Webster

In this novel a study is presented of a common enough American experience, but from a new point of view. Copley, the wheat king, has cornered the American supply of wheat. His daughter Marcia, who is in Italy, is forced to see the people starving and rebellious because her father’s maneuvers in the market have raised the price of daily bread. Her uncle, with whom she is living, endeavors to lighten the suffering which his brother has caused by distributing money among the starving Italians; but his generosity is misunderstood, and his niece is hooted and almost mobbed in the street as the “Wheat princess,” who is helping to grind the faces of the … Read more.../Mehr lesen ...

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When Patty Went To College

When Patty Went To College – Jean Webster

Of all the college stories that have been published in the past hundred or so years, those gathered by Jean Webster into her book ‘When Patty Went to College’ are among the best. Never before has that subtle and much-abused thing known as ” college atmosphere” been so well transferred into type as in this book, the happy-go-lucky irresponsibility, tempered by a vein of conscientiousness, inconsistent and bewildering, that makes the ordinary undergraduate an inexplicable puzzle to the outsider. Miss Patty Wyatt, who furnishes the foreground for the fifteen stories contained in the book, amply exempli¿es this bewildering many sidedness. She is ever just in or just out of difficulty, and yet … Read more.../Mehr lesen ...

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Flower Fables

Flower Fables – Louisa May Alcott

We are no longer children, – but it is not long since we were; and remembering that golden time, when the sun was brighter, the flowers twice as many, the rivers larger, and everything fairer, than it ever has been since, we welcome this book of fables for children. The writer of them was herself a girl of sixteen when they were written, – many, many years ago, – and of course their chief charm is for younger people than we venerable undergraduates. And the children (whose judgment is best) declare loudly for the book, and listen pleased for hours to the adventures of Lily-Bell and Thistledown and the kind little Ripple. But others … Read more.../Mehr lesen ...

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Dear Enemy

Dear Enemy – Jean Webster

‘Dear Enemy’, by Jean Webster, is a novel the events of which are related in the form of letters by the heroine. A formal introduction, indeed, to one of the most intimate, realistic and thoroughly enjoyable pieces of fiction ever! How a charming young woman, all depths and tenderness under her somewhat frivolous exterior, accepts the superintendency of an orphan asylum, and with it the charge of some hundred and thirteen sadly neglected orphans, is merely the beginning of this altogether whimsical, joyful tale. How she transforms the dreadful interior of the New York orphanage; what she does for the youngsters who don’t even know how to play; how she becomes engaged to the wrong … Read more.../Mehr lesen ...

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