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In The Voyage of the Beagle

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Charles Darwin

The book, also known as Darwin's Journal of Researches, is a vivid and exciting travel memoir as well as a detailed scientific field journal…

The Consequences of a Deviation (p. 161)

In Round the Moon

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Jules Verne

Around the Moon, Jules Verne's sequel to From the Earth to the Moon, is a science fiction novel continuing the trip to the moon which left t…

Chapter 8: The Spiritual Values Emphasized by Buddhism in China

In Buddhism and Buddhists in China

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Lewis Hodus and Lewis Hodous

Buddhism and Buddhists in China is an anthropological text describing Buddhism as practiced in China at the beginning of the 20th Century. I…

The Terrible Head

In The Blue Fairy Book

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Andrew Lang

Andrew Lang's Blue Fairy Book (1889) was a beautifully produced and illustrated edition of fairy tales that has become a classic. This was f…

Preface

In Japanese Fairy Tales

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Yei Theodora Ozaki

First published in 1908, this is a book of "beautiful legends and fairy tales of Japan" that were collected, translated and retold…