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Explores the history of Versailles, commissioned by French monarch Louis XIV after he came to the throne in the seventeenth century, looking at how it wasbuilt, examining some of its rooms and gardens, and discussing significant people and events related to the palace.

Biography of children's author Laura Ingalls Wilder, with articles, interviews and recollections of friends and neighbors, focusing on her later life.

Presents the complete text of "Walden," in which Henry D. Thoreau offers his philosophy of life and observations of nature gleaned from his year of solitary living in a cabin on Walden Pond in Massachusetts.

Retraces the footsteps of Ernest Hemingway in some of the special places he went to fish and write, featuring the recollections and insights of some of the people who remember the author's visits to their towns; and includes the complete text of the short story "Big Two-Hearted River.".

An account of the discovery and excavation of a lost settlement established in 1619 on the site of Carter's Grove in Virginia.