Nonfiction Books Published in the 19th Century

1.
The Origin of Species
The Origin of Species 4.01 avg rating — 120,189 ratings
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Phantasms of the Living (Cambridge Library Collection - Spiritualism and Esoteric Knowledge) (Volume 1)
Phantasms of the Living (Cambridge Library Collection - Spiritualism and Esoteric Knowledge) (Volume 1) 4.14 avg rating — 22 ratings
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Adventures of a Mountain Man: The Narrative of Zenas Leonard
Adventures of a Mountain Man: The Narrative of Zenas Leonard 3.96 avg rating — 920 ratings
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The Demon of the Orient, and His Satellite Fiends of the Joints: Our Opium Smokers as They Are in Tartar Hells and American Paradises
The Demon of the Orient, and His Satellite Fiends of the Joints: Our Opium Smokers as They Are in Tartar Hells and American Paradises 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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Two Years Before the Mast: A Sailor's Life at Sea
Two Years Before the Mast: A Sailor's Life at Sea 4.02 avg rating — 14,409 ratings
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Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation
Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation 3.41 avg rating — 27 ratings
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The Buddhist Praying-Wheel: A Collection of Material Bearing Upon the Symbolism of the Wheel and Circular Movements in Custom and Religious Ritual
The Buddhist Praying-Wheel: A Collection of Material Bearing Upon the Symbolism of the Wheel and Circular Movements in Custom and Religious Ritual it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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Boots and Saddles or, Life in Dakota with General Custer
Boots and Saddles or, Life in Dakota with General Custer 3.86 avg rating — 385 ratings
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On Megrim, Sick-Headache, and Some Allied Disorders: A Contribution to the Pathology of Nerve-Storms
On Megrim, Sick-Headache, and Some Allied Disorders: A Contribution to the Pathology of Nerve-Storms 4.25 avg rating — 4 ratings
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Romance of Low Life amongst Plants. Facts and Phenomena of Cryptogamic Vegetation
Romance of Low Life amongst Plants. Facts and Phenomena of Cryptogamic Vegetation 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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Walden or, Life in the Woods
Walden or, Life in the Woods 3.78 avg rating — 200,848 ratings
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Four Years in the Stonewall Brigade
Four Years in the Stonewall Brigade 4.21 avg rating — 328 ratings
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An Essay on the Shaking Palsy
An Essay on the Shaking Palsy 4.08 avg rating — 38 ratings
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Adventures in New Guinea: The Narrative of Louis Tregance, A French Sailor. Nine Years in Captivity Among the Orangwoks, a Tribe in the Interior of New Guinea
Adventures in New Guinea: The Narrative of Louis Tregance, A French Sailor. Nine Years in Captivity Among the Orangwoks, a Tribe in the Interior of New Guinea 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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The Communist Manifesto
The Communist Manifesto
by: Karl Marx
3.67 avg rating — 189,261 ratings
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Pages from the Goncourt Journals
Pages from the Goncourt Journals 4.21 avg rating — 323 ratings
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Organic Remains of a Former World, Vol. 1 of 3: An Examination of the Mineralized Remains of the Vegetables and Animals of the Antediluvian World; Generally Termed Extraneous Fossils
Organic Remains of a Former World, Vol. 1 of 3: An Examination of the Mineralized Remains of the Vegetables and Animals of the Antediluvian World; Generally Termed Extraneous Fossils 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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The Night of the Gods: An Inquiry Into Cosmic and Cosmogonic Mythology and Symbolism, Volume 1
The Night of the Gods: An Inquiry Into Cosmic and Cosmogonic Mythology and Symbolism, Volume 1 really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 5 ratings
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The Life of Henry Brulard
The Life of Henry Brulard
by: Stendhal
3.79 avg rating — 316 ratings
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The Diary of a Napoleonic Foot Soldier
The Diary of a Napoleonic Foot Soldier 3.71 avg rating — 793 ratings
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The Mortal Moon; Or, Bacon and His Masks: The Defoe Period Unmasked
The Mortal Moon; Or, Bacon and His Masks: The Defoe Period Unmasked 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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Life in the Confederate Army: Being the Observations and Experiences of an Alien in the South During the American Civil War
Life in the Confederate Army: Being the Observations and Experiences of an Alien in the South During the American Civil War 4.22 avg rating — 290 ratings
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The Wreck of the Whaleship Essex
The Wreck of the Whaleship Essex 3.90 avg rating — 1,431 ratings
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The Vailan or Annular Theory: A Synopsis of Prof. I. N. Vail's Argument in Support of the Claim That This Earth Once Possessed a Saturn-Like System of Rings
The Vailan or Annular Theory: A Synopsis of Prof. I. N. Vail's Argument in Support of the Claim That This Earth Once Possessed a Saturn-Like System of Rings 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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The Amateur Emigrant
The Amateur Emigrant 3.50 avg rating — 254 ratings
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The Anatomy of Drunkenness
The Anatomy of Drunkenness 2.67 avg rating — 3 ratings
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X+Y=Z, or, The Sleeping Preacher of North Alabama: Containing an account of most wonderful mysterious mental phenomena; Fully authenticated by living witnesses
X+Y=Z, or, The Sleeping Preacher of North Alabama: Containing an account of most wonderful mysterious mental phenomena; Fully authenticated by living witnesses 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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Early Times In Texas
Early Times In Texas 4.03 avg rating — 247 ratings
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A Narrative of the Life of Mrs. Mary Jemison
A Narrative of the Life of Mrs. Mary Jemison 3.72 avg rating — 900 ratings
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Our Rival, the Rascal: A Faithful Portrayal of the Conflict Between the Criminals of This Age and the Defenders of Society, the Police
Our Rival, the Rascal: A Faithful Portrayal of the Conflict Between the Criminals of This Age and the Defenders of Society, the Police 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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Station life in New Zealand
Station life in New Zealand 3.67 avg rating — 189 ratings
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Narrative of the Capture and Subsequent Sufferings of Mrs. Rachel Plummer During a Captivity of Twenty-one Months Among the Comanche Indians (1839)
Narrative of the Capture and Subsequent Sufferings of Mrs. Rachel Plummer During a Captivity of Twenty-one Months Among the Comanche Indians (1839) 3.60 avg rating — 42 ratings
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The Piling of Tophet and the Trespass-Offering: A True Life History
The Piling of Tophet and the Trespass-Offering: A True Life History it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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My Summer in a Garden
My Summer in a Garden 3.62 avg rating — 191 ratings
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The History of Mary Prince: A West Indian Slave Narrative
The History of Mary Prince: A West Indian Slave Narrative 3.81 avg rating — 3,299 ratings
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The Lock of Hair: Its history, ancient and modern, natural and artistic
The Lock of Hair: Its history, ancient and modern, natural and artistic 3.60 avg rating — 5 ratings
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Southern Woman's Story: Life in Confederate Richmond
Southern Woman's Story: Life in Confederate Richmond 4.02 avg rating — 179 ratings
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Indian Creek Massacre and Captivity of Hall Girls (1915)
Indian Creek Massacre and Captivity of Hall Girls (1915) 4.14 avg rating — 21 ratings
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Strange, But True: Life and Adventures of Captain Thomas Crapo and Wife
Strange, But True: Life and Adventures of Captain Thomas Crapo and Wife 4.33 avg rating — 3 ratings
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A Blockaded Family: Life in Southern Alabama During the Civil War
A Blockaded Family: Life in Southern Alabama During the Civil War 3.97 avg rating — 110 ratings
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Equus - Comprising the Natural History of the Horse, Ass, Onager, Quagga and Zebra
Equus - Comprising the Natural History of the Horse, Ass, Onager, Quagga and Zebra it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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Cuneorum Clavis: The Primitive Alphabet and Language of the Ancient Ones of the Earth
Cuneorum Clavis: The Primitive Alphabet and Language of the Ancient Ones of the Earth 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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Destruction and Reconstruction
Destruction and Reconstruction 3.90 avg rating — 100 ratings
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Wild Mustangs: A Short Account of The Feral Horses in America (1841)
Wild Mustangs: A Short Account of The Feral Horses in America (1841) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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The Earth as a Cosmical System Used as a Unit of Measure in Estimating Man's Relative Importance in the Scale of Being
The Earth as a Cosmical System Used as a Unit of Measure in Estimating Man's Relative Importance in the Scale of Being 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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Rangers and Pioneers of Texas
Rangers and Pioneers of Texas really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 85 ratings
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The Present Age
The Present Age 4.04 avg rating — 1,578 ratings
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Fakes, Grafts and Swindles Exposed
Fakes, Grafts and Swindles Exposed it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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Daring and Suffering: A History of the Great Railroad Adventure
Daring and Suffering: A History of the Great Railroad Adventure 3.82 avg rating — 83 ratings
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Great Indian Chief of the West Or, Life and Adventures of Black Hawk
Great Indian Chief of the West Or, Life and Adventures of Black Hawk 3.90 avg rating — 31 ratings
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Rottenness: A study of America and England
Rottenness: A study of America and England 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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My Cave Life in Vicksburg: With Letters of Trial and Travel (Applewood Books)
My Cave Life in Vicksburg: With Letters of Trial and Travel (Applewood Books) 3.84 avg rating — 76 ratings
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Life of Tecumseh, and of His Brother the Prophet With a Historical Sketch of the Shawanoe Indians
Life of Tecumseh, and of His Brother the Prophet With a Historical Sketch of the Shawanoe Indians 3.85 avg rating — 39 ratings
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Ten Thousand Miles on a Bicycle
Ten Thousand Miles on a Bicycle
by: Karl Kron
0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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The Story of Cawnpore
The Story of Cawnpore 3.86 avg rating — 70 ratings
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Suspiria De Profundis and Other Writings
Suspiria De Profundis and Other Writings 3.63 avg rating — 148 ratings
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The reign of terror; a collection of authentic narratives of the horrors committed by the revolutionary government of France under Marat and Robespierre
The reign of terror; a collection of authentic narratives of the horrors committed by the revolutionary government of France under Marat and Robespierre
by: Unknown
0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
56.
Ten Years on a Georgia Plantation Since the War (1883)
Ten Years on a Georgia Plantation Since the War (1883) 4.20 avg rating — 71 ratings
59.
Confessions of an English Opium Eater
Confessions of an English Opium Eater 3.28 avg rating — 10,821 ratings
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Notes on Pet Monkeys; and How to Manage Them
Notes on Pet Monkeys; and How to Manage Them 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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Detailed Minutiae of Soldier Life in the Army of Northern Virginia 1861-1865
Detailed Minutiae of Soldier Life in the Army of Northern Virginia 1861-1865 3.74 avg rating — 69 ratings
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Hashish and Mental Illness
Hashish and Mental Illness liked it 3.00 avg rating — 5 ratings
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Labor Among Primitive Peoples, Showing the Development of the Obstetric Science of Today, from the Natural and Instinctive Customs of All Races, Civilized and Savage, Past and Present
Labor Among Primitive Peoples, Showing the Development of the Obstetric Science of Today, from the Natural and Instinctive Customs of All Races, Civilized and Savage, Past and Present 4.50 avg rating — 4 ratings
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Journal of My Life During The French Revolution
Journal of My Life During The French Revolution 3.90 avg rating — 72 ratings
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Poverty: Its Illegal Causes and Legal Cure: Lysander Spooner
Poverty: Its Illegal Causes and Legal Cure: Lysander Spooner really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 4 ratings
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Why and How: Why the Chinese Emigrate, and the Means they Adopt for the Purpose of Reaching America
Why and How: Why the Chinese Emigrate, and the Means they Adopt for the Purpose of Reaching America 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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The City of the Saints and Across the Rocky Mountains to California
The City of the Saints and Across the Rocky Mountains to California really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 52 ratings
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A Plain Cookery Book for the Working Classes by Charles Elmé Francatelli:
A Plain Cookery Book for the Working Classes by Charles Elmé Francatelli: 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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Aspects of Humanity, Brokenly Mirrored in the Ever-Swelling Current of Human Speech ..
Aspects of Humanity, Brokenly Mirrored in the Ever-Swelling Current of Human Speech .. 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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A True Picture of Emigration
A True Picture of Emigration 3.79 avg rating — 34 ratings
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Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-madinah and Meccah
Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-madinah and Meccah 3.82 avg rating — 154 ratings
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Red Nosed Mike!: Confession of a Terrible Crime, Assassination and Robbery of Paymaster McClure! and Hugh Flannaghan, on Wilkes-Barre Mountain; A History of the Crime! as Exposed by Pinkerton's Men
Red Nosed Mike!: Confession of a Terrible Crime, Assassination and Robbery of Paymaster McClure! and Hugh Flannaghan, on Wilkes-Barre Mountain; A History of the Crime! as Exposed by Pinkerton's Men
by: Unknown
0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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A Lady's Experiences in the Wild West in 1883 (1888)
A Lady's Experiences in the Wild West in 1883 (1888) 3.69 avg rating — 35 ratings
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Notes on Nursing: What It Is, and What It Is Not (Dover Books on Biology)
Notes on Nursing: What It Is, and What It Is Not (Dover Books on Biology) 3.80 avg rating — 1,611 ratings
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What are delusions? or, Two years in an asylum: an episode in the life of an inventor
What are delusions? or, Two years in an asylum: an episode in the life of an inventor 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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Three Years in the Sixth Corps
Three Years in the Sixth Corps 3.97 avg rating — 31 ratings
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La Psychologie Morbide dans Ses Rapports Avec la Philosophie de l'Histoire, ou de l'Influence des Névropathies sur le Dynamisme Intellectuel (Classic Reprint)
La Psychologie Morbide dans Ses Rapports Avec la Philosophie de l'Histoire, ou de l'Influence des Névropathies sur le Dynamisme Intellectuel (Classic Reprint)
by: J. Moreau
0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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Artificial Limbs, and the Amputations which Afford the Most Appropriate Stumps in Civil and Military Surgery
Artificial Limbs, and the Amputations which Afford the Most Appropriate Stumps in Civil and Military Surgery 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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Thrilling Incidents of the Indian War of 1862: Being a Personal Narrative of the Outrages and Horrors Witnessed by Mrs. L. Eastlick in Minnesota (1864)
Thrilling Incidents of the Indian War of 1862: Being a Personal Narrative of the Outrages and Horrors Witnessed by Mrs. L. Eastlick in Minnesota (1864) 4.29 avg rating — 28 ratings
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The Narrative of Sojourner Truth
The Narrative of Sojourner Truth 4.10 avg rating — 10,543 ratings
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A Vindication of the Authenticity of the Elephant Pipes and Inscribed Tablets in the Museum of the Davenport Academy of Natural Sciences
A Vindication of the Authenticity of the Elephant Pipes and Inscribed Tablets in the Museum of the Davenport Academy of Natural Sciences it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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A Rebel's Recollections
A Rebel's Recollections 3.78 avg rating — 23 ratings
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Three Years Among the Comanches
Three Years Among the Comanches 4.05 avg rating — 1,156 ratings
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Confessions of an English Hachish-Eater
Confessions of an English Hachish-Eater
by: Anonymous
0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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The Great Salt Lake Trail
The Great Salt Lake Trail 4.04 avg rating — 26 ratings
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The Spirit Lake Massacre and the Captivity of Abbie Gardner (Expanded, Annotated)
The Spirit Lake Massacre and the Captivity of Abbie Gardner (Expanded, Annotated) 3.90 avg rating — 396 ratings
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Microbes and the Microbe Killer
Microbes and the Microbe Killer 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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Loss of the Sultana and Reminiscences of Survivors
Loss of the Sultana and Reminiscences of Survivors really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 25 ratings
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The Life and Adventures of James P. Beckwourth: Mountaineer, Scout, and Pioneer, and Chief of the Crow Nation of Indians
The Life and Adventures of James P. Beckwourth: Mountaineer, Scout, and Pioneer, and Chief of the Crow Nation of Indians 4.28 avg rating — 506 ratings
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Archaic Rock Inscriptions: An account of the cup & ring markings of the sculptured stones of the old and new worlds
Archaic Rock Inscriptions: An account of the cup & ring markings of the sculptured stones of the old and new worlds
by: Unknown
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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I Married a Soldier
I Married a Soldier 3.84 avg rating — 19 ratings
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Let's Abolish Government
Let's Abolish Government 4.10 avg rating — 29 ratings
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The Land-Marks of Snake Poison Literature: Being a Review of the More Important Researches Into the Nature of Snake-Poisons
The Land-Marks of Snake Poison Literature: Being a Review of the More Important Researches Into the Nature of Snake-Poisons 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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The Log of a Sea-Waif: Being Recollections of the First Four Years of My Sea Life
The Log of a Sea-Waif: Being Recollections of the First Four Years of My Sea Life 3.78 avg rating — 18 ratings
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The biology of the frog
The biology of the frog 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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The Blot Upon the Brain: Studies in History and Psychology
The Blot Upon the Brain: Studies in History and Psychology 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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My Three Years in Manipur, and Escape From the Recent Mutiny
My Three Years in Manipur, and Escape From the Recent Mutiny 3.71 avg rating — 17 ratings
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Dark Arts: A History of Satanism, Witchcraft and Sorcery in the Middle Ages
Dark Arts: A History of Satanism, Witchcraft and Sorcery in the Middle Ages 3.69 avg rating — 846 ratings
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The Celestial Symbol Interpreted; Or, the Natural Wonders and Spiritual Teachings of the Sun, as Revealed by the Triumphs of Modern Science
The Celestial Symbol Interpreted; Or, the Natural Wonders and Spiritual Teachings of the Sun, as Revealed by the Triumphs of Modern Science 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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The Flag Replaced on Sumter: A Personal Narrative
The Flag Replaced on Sumter: A Personal Narrative 3.53 avg rating — 17 ratings
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