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A Glimpse of India

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Clara Swain

A Glimpse of India: being a collection of extracts from the letters Dr. Clara A. Swain, first medical missionary to India of the Woman's For…

19 - Chapter VIII - Industrial Exemption and Conservatism, Part Two

In The Theory of the Leisure Class

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Thorstein Veblen

Originally published by the Norwegian-American economist Thorstein Veblen while he was a professor at the University of Chicago in 1898, the…

A Yucatan Breakfast And Other Sights

In The American Egypt

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Channing Arnold

Arnold and Frost were English archaeologists who traveled to the Yucatan Peninsula and wrote "the first book ever written by Englishmen…

The Badawin of Al-hijaz, part 2

In Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-madinah and Meccah

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Richard Francis Burton

Sir Richard Francis Burton (1821 – 1890) was an English explorer, translator, writer, soldier, orientalist, ethnologist, linguist, poet, hyp…