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Memoirs of an Arabian princess from Zanzibar

The memoirs of Emily Ruete who was born a princess in Zanzibar, raised in a harem, married to a German, and then became embroiled in a bitter struggle for political control over the island during the period of nineteenth-century European colonialism.

The great dirigibles

their triumphs and disasters
1972
Chronicles the history of dirigible flight from its invention in 1865 to the end of the era, which came with the 1937 crash of the "Hindenburg.".

Following the equator

a journey around the world
1989
A travelogue written at the end of the nineteenth century by American author Mark Twain in which he describes his experiences sailing around the world via steamship on a lecture tour.
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