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Society, Manners and Politics in the United States Being a Series of Letters on North America

Chevalier, Michel, 1806-1879; Bradford, T. G. (Thomas Gamaliel), 1802-1887 [Translator]

Society, Manners and Politics in the United States Being a Series of Letters on North America — English source edition. Subject: United States -- Descripti...

United States -- Description and travelUnited States -- Social conditions -- To 1865United States -- Politics and government -- 1829-1837
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The Backwoods of Canada Being Letters from the Wife of an Emigrant Officer, Illustrative of the Domestic Economy of British America

Traill, Catharine Parr Strickland, 1802-1899

The Backwoods of Canada Being Letters from the Wife of an Emigrant Officer, Illustrative of the Domestic Economy of British America — English source editio...

Ontario -- Description and travelFrontier and pioneer life -- OntarioCanada -- Description and travel
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The Sot-weed Factor: or, A Voyage to Maryland. A Satyr. In which is Describ'd The Laws, Government, Courts and Constitutions of the Country, and also the Buildings, Feasts, Frolicks, Entertainments and Drunken Humours of the Inhabitants of that Part of America. In Burlesque Verse.

Cooke, Ebenezer, 1667?-1732?

The Sot-weed Factor: or, A Voyage to Maryland. A Satyr. In which is Describ'd The Laws, Government, Courts and Constitutions of the Country, and also the B...

Maryland -- Description and travel -- Poetry
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Travels Through North and South Carolina, Georgia, East and West Florida, the Cherokee Country, the Extensive Territories of the Muscogulges, or Creek Confederacy, and the Country of the Chactaws. Containing an Account of the Soil and Natural Productions of Those Regions, Together With Observations on the Manners of the Indians.

Bartram, William, 1739-1823

Travels Through North and South Carolina, Georgia, East and West Florida, the Cherokee Country, the Extensive Territories of the Muscogulges, or Creek Conf...

Southern States -- Description and travelIndians of North America -- Southern StatesNatural history -- Southern States
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Voyages from Montreal Through the Continent of North America to the Frozen and Pacific Oceans in 1789 and 1793. Vol. I

Mackenzie, Alexander, 1764-1820

Voyages from Montreal Through the Continent of North America to the Frozen and Pacific Oceans in 1789 and 1793. Vol. I — English source edition. Subject: I...

Indians of North America -- CanadaNorthwest, Canadian -- Description and travelFur trade -- Canada
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Voyages from Montreal Through the Continent of North America to the Frozen and Pacific Oceans in 1789 and 1793. Vol. II

Mackenzie, Alexander, 1764-1820

Voyages from Montreal Through the Continent of North America to the Frozen and Pacific Oceans in 1789 and 1793. Vol. II — English source edition. Subject:...

Indians of North America -- CanadaNorthwest, Canadian -- Description and travelFur trade -- Canada
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A Journey from Prince of Wales's Fort in Hudson's Bay to the Northern Ocean in the Years 1769, 1770, 1771, 1772 New Edition with Introduction, Notes, and Illustrations

Hearne, Samuel, 1745-1792; Walker, Edmund, Sir, 1848-1924 [Author of introduction, etc.]; Tyrrell, Joseph Burr, 1858-1957 [Editor]

A Journey from Prince of Wales's Fort in Hudson's Bay to the Northern Ocean in the Years 1769, 1770, 1771, 1772 New Edition with Introduction, Notes, and I...

Northwest PassageNorthwest, Canadian -- Description and travelIndians of North America -- Northwest, Canadian
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Aspects of nature, in different lands and different climates (Vol. 1 of 2) with scientific elucidations

Humboldt, Alexander von, 1769-1859; Sabine, Elizabeth Juliana, 1807-1879 [Translator]

Aspects of nature, in different lands and different climates (Vol. 1 of 2) with scientific elucidations — English source edition. Subject: Science.

ScienceSouth America -- Description and travelPhysical geography
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