The Professor and the Friend of Humanity were about starting on a journey, across country southward, through regions about which the people of Abingdon could give little useful information. If the travelers had known the capacities and resources of the country, they would not have started without a supply train, or the establishment of bases of provisions in advance.
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With all of his works still in print, Dickens is without a doubt one of the most popular authors of all times. Flourishing in the Victorian era, this English novelist is renowned for his unforgettable characters and vivid story lines.
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Entertaining 1880's travel adviser,
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This is a little travel book from the 1880's. The author rides through the mountains of North Carolina providing helpful tips that I found amusing and an insight into the times, for example, choosing a walking horse, lodging at cabins without dirt floors, eating at a farmhouse that had an egg. When the author lost his wallet on the trail he observes that it was "crocodile, probably imitation". Some things never change, others do, he expected the wallet to be return and it was.
All in all, a nice read, especially when it's free.
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"The way to mount a horse"-said the Professor. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Big Tom, North Carolina, Happy John, New England, David Thomas, Mount Mitchell, French Broad, Mitchell County, Warm Springs, Big Ivy, Cut Laurel Gap, Mount Washington, United States, Wade Hampton, Banner's Elk, Black Mountains, Caney River, Colonel Long, Cranberry Forge, Doe River, Elk Cross Roads, Great Smoky Mountains, Linville Falls, New River, Roan Mountain New!
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Big Tom, North Carolina, Happy John, New England, David Thomas, Mount Mitchell, French Broad, Mitchell County, Warm Springs, Big Ivy, Cut Laurel Gap, Mount Washington, United States, Wade Hampton, Banner's Elk, Black Mountains, Caney River, Colonel Long, Cranberry Forge, Doe River, Elk Cross Roads, Great Smoky Mountains, Linville Falls, New River, Roan Mountain New!
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- Mount Mitchell and the Black Mountains: An Environmental History of the Highest Peaks in Eastern America by Timothy Silver on page 131, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Ashe County's Civil War: Community and Society in the Appalachian South (Nation Divided: New Studies in Civil War History) by Martin Crawford in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Chronological Outlines of American Literature by Selden L. Whitcomb on page 212, and page 281
- Subduing Satan: Religion, Recreation, and Manhood in the Rural South, 1865-1920 (Fred W. Morrison Series in Southern Studies) by Ted Ownby in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Redeeming the South: Religious Cultures and Racial Identities Among Southern Baptists, 1865-1925 (Fred W. Morrison Series in Southern Studies) by Paul Harvey in Back Matter
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