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A Traveller's Year is an anthology of extracts from diaries, journals and letters, two or three for each day of the year, on the subject of travel and exploration. The extracts convey men and women's experiences of travel and discovery from the sixteenth to the early twenty-first centuries, with an emphasis on the period 1750—1950, the classic era of both European exploration and diary-writing. The authors of the pieces range from famous explorers...
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Heritage Books
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English
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Patricia Millen takes the reader back to the roots of baseball in this country, and follows its evolution to a national passion. While baseball's favorite myth regarding Abner Doubleday is proven to be false, America's favorite pastime is clearly a part of American history. Patricia Millen disproves the long-held, entrenched misconception that attributed baseball's rise to prominence during the 19th century to the widespread playing of the game by...
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