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e-Book Voyages and Travels: Ancient and Modern: The Five Foot Shelf of Classics, Vol. XXXIII (in 51 Volumes) download

e-Book Voyages and Travels: Ancient and Modern: The Five Foot Shelf of Classics, Vol. XXXIII (in 51 Volumes) download

by Tacitus,Charles W. Eliot,Herodotus

ISBN: 1616401028
ISBN13: 978-1616401023
Language: English
Publisher: Cosimo Classics (February 1, 2010)
Pages: 400
Category: Literary
Subategory: Literature

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Voyages and Travels book. XXXIII (in 51 Volumes) .

Voyages and Travels book. Also known as "Dr. Eliot's Five Foot Shelf," it represented Eliot's belief that a basic liberal education could be gleaned by reading from an anthology of works that could fit on five feet of bookshelf. Volume XXXIII features essential writings of ethnography and exploration. Herodotus was an ancient Greek historian who was born in Halicarnassus, Caria (modern-day Bodrum, Turkey) and lived in the fifth century BCE (c. 484–425 BCE).

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Also known as "Dr. Eliot's Five Foot Shelf," it represented Eliot's belief that . assembled by American academic CHARLES WILLIAM ELIOT (1834-1926), Harvard University's longest-serving president.

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Tacitus on Germany, tr. by T. Gordon. Sir Francis Drake revived, by P. Nicols. Sir Francis Drake's famous voyage round the world, by F. Pretty. Drake's great Armada, by Captain W. Biggs. Sir Humphrey Gilbert's voyage to Newfoundland, by. E. Hayes. The discovery of Guiana, by Sir W. Raleigh.

The Harvard Classics Volume 33 (Voyages and Travels) Published 1910.

Voyages and Travels: Ancient and Modern.

The great company of the wisest, the wittiest, the most interesting minds of all ages and every land will afford you entertainment in endless variety, inspiration and stimulation of mind  . Voyages and Travels: Ancient and Modern. Eliot's Five Foot Shelf," it represented Eliot's belief . as easily observed even in Darwin's time in the breeding of farm animals, and as confirmed today through numerous lines of scientific inquiry. Charles Robert Darwin, born in 1809, was an English naturalist who founded the theory of Darwinism, the belief in evolution as determined by natural selection.

by Herodotus and translated by G. C. Macauley, Germany by Tacitus and .

Haies, and The Discovery of Guiana by Sir Walter Raleigh.

Lectures on The Harvard Classics. By William Allan Neilson, P. P. F. Collier & Son Corporation NEW YORK

Author names not noted above: Sir Francis Drake, Francis Petty, Walter Biggs, Edward Hayes, Sir Walter Raleigh Editor name not noted above: Philip Nichols Translator names not noted above: G.C. Macaulay, Thomas Gordon Originally published between 1909 and 1917 under the name "Harvard Classics," this stupendous 51-volume set-a collection of the greatest writings from literature, philosophy, history, and mythology-was assembled by American academic CHARLES WILLIAM ELIOT (1834-1926), Harvard University's longest-serving president. Also known as "Dr. Eliot's Five Foot Shelf," it represented Eliot's belief that a basic liberal education could be gleaned by reading from an anthology of works that could fit on five feet of bookshelf. Volume XXXIII features essential writings of ethnography and exploration. In their own voices, hear: • Herodotus, "the father of story-tellers," on the gods of ancient Egypt • Tacitus, in the "front rank" of ancient historians, on the Teutonic tribes of the Roman era • Sir Francis Drake, "the greatest of the naval adventurers of England of the time of Elizabeth," relates his historic 16th-century journey around the Straits of Magellan • Sir Walter Raleigh, "courtier and statesman, soldier and sailor, scientist and man of letters," tells of his 1594 discovery of Guiana • and others.
ISBN: 1432618350
ISBN13: 978-1432618353
language: English
Subcategory: Literary
e-Book Modern English Drama: The Five Foot Shelf of Classics, Vol. XVIII (in 51 Volumes) download

Modern English Drama: The Five Foot Shelf of Classics, Vol. XVIII (in 51 Volumes) epub fb2

by John Dryden,Richard Brinsley Sheridan,Charles W. Eliot
ISBN: 1616401397
ISBN13: 978-1616401399
language: English
Subcategory: Literary
ISBN: 0674314514
ISBN13: 978-0674314511
language: English
Subcategory: Americas
e-Book Continental Drama: The Five Foot Shelf of Classics, Vol. XXVI (in 51 Volumes) download

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by Pedro Caldern De La Barca,Pierre Corneille,Charles W. Eliot
ISBN: 1616401168
ISBN13: 978-1616401160
language: English
Subcategory: Writing Research and Publishing Guides
ISBN: 1599152169
ISBN13: 978-1599152165
language: English
Subcategory: Biographies
ISBN: 1616401206
ISBN13: 978-1616401207
language: English
Subcategory: Literary
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ISBN13: 978-1616401016
language: English
Subcategory: Literary
ISBN: 0451518489
ISBN13: 978-0451518484
language: English
Subcategory: History and Criticism
ISBN: 1616400986
ISBN13: 978-1616400989
language: English
Subcategory: Literary
ISBN: 0571136214
ISBN13: 978-0571136216
language: English
Subcategory: Arts and Literature