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Chapter 10 - Camp Sanitation And Conservancy

In With The Royal Army Medical Corps in Egypt

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Tickner Edwardes

Throughout the First World War, members of the Royal Army Medical Corps provided constant support for British and Allied military troops whe…

Final Preparations

In The Adventures of Captain Hatteras, Part 2: The Field of Ice

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Jules Verne

The novel, set in 1861, describes adventures of British expedition led by Captain John Hatteras to the North Pole. Hatteras is convinced tha…

No4 - The Ordnance Survey of Great Britain - its history and object: Part 1

In The National Geographic Magazine Vol. 02 No. 3-5

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Josiah Pierce Jr., Josiah Pierce, Jr. and National Geographic Society

National Geographic Magazine Volume 2 Number 3:The Arctic Cruise of the U.S.S. Thetis in the Summer and Autumn of 1889.The Law of Storms, co…

Scutari

In Florence Nightingale the Angel of the Crimea

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Laura E. Richards and Laura E. Howe Richards

One evening, some time after the great Crimean War of 1854-55, a company of military and naval officers met at dinner in London. They were t…

The Ant-Lion

In Princess Mary's Gift Book

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Jean-Henri Fabre

In 1914, Princess Mary, then 17 years of age, gave her name to this collection of short stories and essays from the most prominent authors o…

Chapter VII

In A Cursory History of Swearing

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Julian Sharman

This is a very readable scientific account of Swearing and Cursing in the English Language. Not only is an enlightening historical account g…

The Shrinkage of the Planet

In Revolution, and other Essays

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Jack London

A collection of 13 essays written between 1900 and 1908, published in 1910. The lead essay, "Revolution", outlines how and why Lon…

The Tempest by Charles Dickens

In Sea Stories

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Charles Dickens

Most of us have passed through a period of life during which we have ardently longed to be, if not actually a rover, a buccaneer, or a pirat…

TOM HICKATHRIFT

In More English Fairy Tales

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Joseph Jacobs

"This volume will come, I fancy, as a surprise both to my brother folk-lorists and to the public in general. It might naturally have be…

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