George Augustus: 22 books

In the last century—and many centuries before the last; but it is about the eighteenth that I am specially speaking—long before steamers and railways, or even frigate-built ships and flying coaches were dreamt of, when an Englishman went abroad, he stopped there. When he came back, if at all,...

I SEE MUCH OF THE INSIDE OF THE WORLD, AND THEN GO RIGHT ROUND IT

An anthology of memoirs of the Peninsular War and the abortive attack on Bergen-op-Zoom in 1814. In this first volume, Captain Cooke recounts his experiences with the 43rd Foot at Ciudad Rodrigo, Badajoz, the battles of Salamanca, Vittoria, the Pyrenees, the Bidassoa, the Nive, Nivelle and Toulouse. As with many of the British officer memoirs, there is a tone of dry wit about his writing.

Varla Ventura, fan favorite on Huffington Posts Weird News, frequent guest on Coast to Coast, and bestselling author of The Book of the Bizarre and Beyond Bizarre, introduces a new Weiser Books Collection of forgotten crypto-classics. Magical Creatures is a hair-raising herd of affordable digital...

OF SUNDRY MY ADVENTURES FROM THE TIME OF MY GOING ABROAD UNTIL MY COMING TO MAN'S ESTATE (WHICH WAS ALL THE ESTATE I HAD).

Originally compiled in 1879 then revised and completed in 1885, this fascinating work is thoroughly recommended for inclusion on the bookshelf of all Irish wolfhound fans. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly...

La traduzione per la prima volta in italiano del testo del 1885 del capitano Graham dedicato all'Irish Wolfhound. L'allevatore che ha ricreato questa razza ne narra la storia e gli aneddoti, le curiosità e la letteratura, risalendo fin al tempo dei latini e offrendo un riferimento basilare per chi...

Life in the Far West written by George Frederick Augustus Ruxton who was a British explorer and travel writer. This book was published in 1851. And now republish in ebook format. We believe this work is culturally important in its original archival form. While we strive to adequately clean and digitally...