Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands
9 best books like Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands (Mary Seacole): Kim, The Story of an African Farm, The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano: Written by Himself, The Sword of Welleran and Other Stories, Notes on Nursing: What It Is, and What It Is Not, Two Lives of Charlemagne, The People of the Mist, Among the Tibetans, Poor Richard's Almanack
| Author | Rudyard Kipling |
| ISBN | 0140183523 |
Kim is set in an imperialistic world; a world strikingly masculine, dominated by travel, trade and adventure, a world in which there is no question of the division between white and non-white.
Two men - a boy who grows into early manhood and an old ascetic priest, the lama - are at the center of...
The Story of an African Farm
| Author | Olive Schreiner |
| ISBN | 0140431845 |
The Story of an African Farm By Olive Schreiner A classic story of rural life in 19th Century South Africa, it is a searing indictment of the rigid Boer social conventions. The first of the great South African novels chronicles the adventures of three childhood friends who defy societal repression....
The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano: Written by Himself
| Author | Olaudah Equiano |
| ISBN | 0312442033 |
Widely admired for its vivid accounts of the slave trade, Olaudah Equiano's autobiography -- the first slave narrative to attract a significant readership -- reveals many aspects of the eighteenth-century Western world through the experiences of one individual. The second edition reproduces...
| Author | Lord Dunsany |
| ISBN | 0486442179 |
An influential fantasy writer and a key figure in the Irish literary renaissance, Edward J. M. D. Plunkett, the eighteenth Baron Dunsany (1878-1957) produced a trove of gems of the imagination. The 12 stories here are some of his best. They will take you on a remarkable journey to places that sometimes...
Notes on Nursing: What It Is, and What It Is Not
| Author | Florence Nightingale |
"My heart always sinks within me when I hear the good housewife, of every class, say, 'I assure you the bed has been well slept in,' and I can only hope it is not true. What? Is the bed already saturated with somebody else's damp before my patient comes to exhale in it his own damp? Has it not had a single chance...
| Author | Einhard |
| ISBN | 0140442138 |
Two revealingly different accounts of the life of the most important figure of the Roman Empire
Charlemage, known as the father of Europe, was one of the most powerful and dynamic of all medieval rulers. The biographies brought together here provide a rich and varied portrait of the king from...
When two brothers lose their home.Because of the father's unethical behavior.Then he commits suicide.Leonard Outram and his older sibling, Tom.Are left penniless.Both flee to Africa.Vowing to each other.Never to return. Until they regain Outram Hall,in England.But how to restore their family's...
| Author | Isabella Lucy Bird |
| ISBN | 1438508883 |
Isabella Bird writes of her adventures in a manner that captivates her readers Isabella L Bird (1831 - 1904) was a 19th century British traveler and writer. Since her father was a Church of England priest the family moved many times during her childhood. Bird traveled to Colorado when she heard the air...
| Author | Benjamin Franklin |
| ISBN | 0880889187 |
Peruse the bookshelves at the museum shop of the Independence National Historical Park in Philadelphia, and you will no doubt see this edition of Poor Richard's Almanack. It is great fun reading 77 pages' worth of Benjamin Franklin's maxims for industry, thrift, humility, and cheerfulness -- maxims...
