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National Geographic Magazine Vol. 09 – 09. September 1898

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The National Geographic Magazine, an illustrated monthly, Vol IX, September 1898. It includes the following articles: The Growth of the United States, by W J McGee Bitter Root Forest Reserve, by Richard U. Goode Atlantic Estuarine Tides, by Mark S. W. Jefferson The Forest Conditions and Standing Timber of the State of Washington, by Henry Gannett American Association for the Advancement of Science, by John Hyde [chương_files]

National Geographic Magazine Vol. 09 – 10. October 1898

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The National Geographic Magazine, an illustrated monthly, Vol IX, October 1898. It includes the following articles: Lake Chelan, by Henky Gannett Frederic W. Putnam, by John Hydic Mesa Verde, by F. H. Newell The Geospheres, by W J McGee Miscellanea [chương_files]

National Geographic Magazine Vol. 10 – 05. May 1899

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Chapter: 8 | Listen: 2

The National Geographic Magazine, an illustrated monthly, Vol X, May 1899. It includes the following articles: The Redwood Forest of the Pacific Coast, by Henry Gannett Is Climatic Aridity Impending on the Pacific Slope? by J. B. Leiberg Professor O. C. Marsh, by W. J McGee The Area of the Philippines, by George Davidson The Recent Ascent of Itambe, by J. C. Branner [chương_files]

National Geographic Magazine Vol. 10 – 02. February 1899

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Chapter: 8 | Listen: 5

The National Geographic Magazine, an illustrated monthly, Vol X, February 1899. It includes the following articles: The Economic Condition of the Philippines by Max L. Tornow Manila and the Philippines by Major A. Falkner Von Sonnenburg [chương_files]

National Geographic Magazine Vol. 10 – 03. March 1899

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The National Geographic Magazine, an illustrated monthly, Vol X, March 1899. It includes the following articles: The Original Territory of the United States, by Hon. David J. Hill Porto Rico, by Prof. Robert T. Hill [chương_files]

Jenseit des Tweed

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Fontanes Bericht über seine Reise nach Schottland mit seinem Freund Bernhard von Lepel. In dem für Fontane charakteristischen Stil umfasst die Erzählung eine Mischung aus Beschreibungen von Land und Leuten, Volksgeschichten und geschichtlichen Ereignissen. Sie ist gleichzeitig eine Hommage an den von ihm verehrten Sir Walter Scott.” (Summary by RiDi) [chương_files]

Guide to the Lakes

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Chapter: 14 | Listen: 1

In the late eighteenth century, English writers discovered the landscape, not only in the paintings of Claude Lorrain, Nicolas Poussin and Salvator Rosa, but also as a place to be visited and viewed as if it were a picture. No part of England was more discovered in this period than the Lake District, which was transformed over the course of the next century from a remote region of farmland and inaccessible hills into a wild and romantic landscape of picturesque lake and mountain, described in works such as Thomas West’s A guide to the Lakes (1778). West’s predecessors – Thomas Gray, Arthur Young, Thomas Pennant and William Hutchinson –had merely passed through the Lakes. West, a resident of the Lakes, took the reader on a tour of the district as a whole, visiting all the lakes, with the sole exception of Wastwater. A devotee of the Claude glass – a convex, tinted mirror in which the landscape appears as it might in a painting by Lorrain – West follows and improves upon Gray’s technique of identifying ‘stations’ from which the landscape would appear at its most picturesque. West’s guide remains something of a hybrid, however, with its lengthy antiquarian descriptions of the surrounding towns of Lancaster, Penrith and Kendal. – Summary by Phil Benson [chương_files]

Two Years in Oregon

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Chapter: 31 | Listen: 8

Wallis Nash was a British lawyer who visited Oregon and later emigrated with his family. His account covers a great breadth of description of the state of Oregon from natural history to business and climate, from the coast through the great Willamette Valley to the reaches of central and eastern Oregon. It is not travelogue but a comprehensive description in the most positive light to encourage others to follow his example to settle in the state of Oregon, so full of promise. – Summary by Larry Wilson Prooflisteners for this project: CS , Larry Wilson & Wayne Cooke [chương_files]

National Geographic Magazine Vol. 09 – 05. May 1898

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The National Geographic Magazine, an illustrated monthly, Vol IX, May 1898, the Cuba Number. It includes the following articles: Cuba, by Robert T. Hill The Florida Coast Line Canal The Origin of West India Bird Life, by Frank M. Chapman Trade of the United States with Cuba, by John Hyde Captain Charles D. Sigsbee, U. S. N., by Henry Gannett Reception to Captain C. D. Sigsbee, U. S. N., by John Hyde Geographic Literature – Geographic Serials [chương_files]

Turkish Embassy Letters (selection)

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Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (née Pierrepont) was an English aristocrat and woman of letters. In 1716, she accompanied her husband to Vienna, and thence to Adrianople (Edirne) and Constantinople, where he took up his post as the new British ambassador. The couple remained there until 1718. Lady Mary told the story of their voyage in a series of private letters full of vivid descriptions and unconventional commentary. Their posthumous publication in 1763 presented to the public the first secular work written by a European woman about the Muslim Orient. They were praised by Voltaire, and the Scottish author Tobias Smollett opined that they were “never equaled by any letter-writer of any sex, age or nation”. This selection contains sixteen of Lady Mary’s Turkish Embassy Letters, as they came to be known, addressed her sister, Lady Mar (letters 1-5, 8, 9, 13, and 16), to Lady Rich (letters 6, 12 and 14), and to Abate Conti (letters 7, 10, 11 and 15). (Summary by Kazbek & Wikipedia) [chương_files]