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• Author(s): Frederick Burnaby • Publisher: Cosimo Classics • Publisher Imprint: Cosimo Classics • BISAC: Historical - GeneralFirst published in 1878, this is the story of Frederick Burnaby's harrowing thousand-mile winter journey from Constantin...

• Author(s): John Franklin • Publisher: Cosimo Classics • Publisher Imprint: Cosimo Classics • BISAC: GeneralSir John Franklin's Narrative of the Journey to the Shores of the Polar Sea in the Years 1819-1822 recounts a hair-raising adventure of t...

• Author(s): John Stuart Mill • Publisher: Cosimo Classics • Publisher Imprint: Cosimo Classics • BISAC: Civil RightsWhen we further consider that to understand one woman is not necessarily to understand any other woman; that even if he could stu...

• Author(s): Alexander Hamilton • Publisher: Cosimo Classics • Publisher Imprint: Cosimo Classics • BISAC: Economic HistoryOn December 5th, 1791, Alexander Hamilton, then the first U.S. Secretary of the Treasury, delivered to the House of Represe...

• Author(s): Frederick Courtney Selous • Publisher: Cosimo Classics • Publisher Imprint: Cosimo Classics • BISAC: Africa - GeneralIn this first-hand account from explorer Frederick Selous, first published in 1893, readers follow the true story of...

• Author(s): Mark Twain • Publisher: Cosimo Classics • Publisher Imprint: Cosimo Classics • BISAC: Action & Adventure - General "That is just the way with some people. They get down on a thing when they don't know nothing about it." -Hucklebe...

• Author(s): Henry M. Stanley • Publisher: Cosimo Classics • Publisher Imprint: Cosimo Classics • BISAC: Non-ClassifiableI had heard from passing caravans so many extremely favourable reports respecting Ugogo and its productions that it appeared ...

• Author(s): Jules Verne • Publisher: Cosimo Classics • Publisher Imprint: Cosimo Classics • BISAC: Action & Adventure"The chiefs are armed with muskets," said he, "and our balloon is too easy a mark for them." "Would a hole make us fall?" as...

• Author(s): Henry C. Murphy • Publisher: Cosimo Classics • Publisher Imprint: Cosimo Classics • BISAC: Adventurers & ExplorersFour centuries ago, English explorer Henry Hudson (1570-1611), commanding the yacht Halve Maen for the Dutch East I...

• Author(s): M. Winternitz | F. Max Müller • Publisher: Cosimo Classics • Publisher Imprint: Cosimo Classics • BISAC: Bibliographies & IndexesThe Sacred Books of the East, a 50-volume series, encompasses the seven non-Christian religions of A...