150円 "George Washington" is an intriguing biography of America's first president as told by the man who would later become its twenty-eighth, Woodrow Wilson. Wilson takes us on a journey from a look at Washington's times to his Virginia breeding to his life in colonial America. Wilson looks at how the...

150円 American pirate, frontiersman, fur trapper, fur trader, hunter, and explorer Hugh Glass (1780-1833) once made his way crawling and stumbling 200 miles (320 km) to Fort Kiowa, in South Dakota, after being abandoned without supplies or weapons by fellow explorers and fur traders during General Ashl...

150円 After the thrilling scenes through which the Colony of Virginia passed during its earliest days, the most portentous, the most dramatic, the most picturesque event of its seventeenth century history was the insurrection known as "Bacon's Rebellion." All writers upon the history of Virginia refer ...

150円 In 1786, a party of Shawnee Indians attacked James Moore and his family in the remote Abb's Valley of Virginia. The entire family was masacred except for two children, James and Mary. Their tale here was penned by the grandson James Moore Brown.

150円 Of Plymouth Plantation is the story of the first settlers from The Mayflower and how they were able to survive and flourish in a hostile land despite incredible odds. Enduring starvation, plague, internal and external conflicts, natural disasters and countless other calamities, about a hundred of...

150円 PERHAPS the sentiments contained in the following pages, are not YET sufficiently fashionable to procure them general favor; a long habit of not thinking a thing WRONG, gives it a superficial appearance of being RIGHT, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defence of custom. But the tumult s...

150円 Written over a period of years by William Bradford, the leader of the Plymouth Colony in Massachusetts, Of Plymouth Plantation is regarded as the most authoritative account of the Pilgrims and the early years of the colony they founded. Written between 1630 and 1651, the journal describes the sto...

1,054円 “Give me liberty or give me death!” - Patrick Henry. Strategy Six Pack 13 includes Thomas De Quincey’s classic study of Rome’s first leaders, The Caesars, two essays by Elbert Hubbard (on Patrick Henry and Anne Hutchinson), Memoirs of an Arabian Princess from Zanzibar by Emily Ruete and two Ameri...

150円 The Legend of Sleepy Hollow recounted in this fascinating tale written at the beginning of the 19th century. The Headless Horseman, said to be a decapitated Hessian soldier, was buried by the Van Tassel family in the Old Dutch Burying Ground in Sleepy Hollow. It is here that a series of supernatu...

300円 The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin is the record of Benjamin Franklin's life written by Franklin himself and is one of the most influential examples of an autobiography ever written. Franklin's account of his life is divided into four parts, reflecting the different periods at which he wrote ...

300円 **With A to Z Classics, discover or rediscover all the classics of literature. Contains Active Table of Contents (HTML)** and in the end of book include a bonus link to the free audiobook. Adam Smith's masterpiece, first published in 1776, is the foundation of modern economic thought and remains ...

752円 Alla ricerca di personaggi liguri resisi famosi nel Far West, ma sconosciuti in patria, l’autore fa la scoperta del gesuita Lorenzo Palladino, autore di "Indian and White in the North West or a History of Catholicity in Montana". In questo libro viene raccontato come ai primi anni del 1800 gli in...