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William H G Kingston
A rousing tale featuring a family named the Gilpins. Follow their adventures as they travel to Australia to start a new life. Hard work courage and determination guide them through…
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Alain Kerherve
Among the numerous letter-writing manuals which were printed in eighteenth-century Britain, a few were authored by such famous novelists as Samuel Richardson or Daniel Defoe.
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Hubert Howe Bancroft
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.
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Thomas L. Karnes
The life of William Gilpin from the quiet comfort of his wealthy Quaker boyhood home through an exciting and turbulent career as Indian fighter, pioneer, newspaper editor, explorer, land promoter…
William Gilpin
The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the…
The Wye Tour Or Gilpin On The Wye: With Picturesque, Historical, And Archaeological Additions (1822) is a book written by William Gilpin. It is a travelogue that follows Gilpin's journey…
The Lives of Hugh Latimer, Bishop of Worcester and of Bernard Gilpin is a historical biography written by William Gilpin and originally published in 1780. The book tells the story…
This scarce antiquarian book is included in our special Legacy Reprint Series. In the interest of creating a more extensive selection of rare historical book reprints, we have chosen to…
An essay on prints is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1781. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science…
Observations, relative chiefly to picturesque beauty, made in the year 1772 on several parts of England - Particularly the mountains and lakes of Cumberland and Westmoreland is an unchanged, high-quality…
Observations, relative chiefly to picturesque beauty, made in the year 1772 on several parts of England is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1786. Hansebooks is editor…