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"This is the story of four women of different natures and backgrounds, but of similar spirit and vision, who actually went to the East to realize their dreams of romance and to gain liberation from the grayness of Europe"--back cover.
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The author writes about the pleasures of traveling and the excitement of life on the move.
635714
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Four European women who experienced the "romance of the Orient". Isabel Burton ; Jane Digby El Mezrab ; Aimee Dubucq de Rivery ; Isabelle Eberhardt.
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Visual Materials
A single slide boxwood rule created by Dring & Fage using Edward Alexander Phillips (E.A.P.) Burt's 1887 patented measurements for calculating gauges and cubic feet of trees. The rule measures 24 inches along one edge, but with the addition of two bronze end caps, the item is approximately 25.5 inches in width and 2.8 inches in height. The rule is double-sided, engraved, and contains both Hoppus and Customs measuring systems. The other edge of the rule reads, "Burt's Rapid Board Measure Calculator. For All American Colonial Foreign Lumber Mahogany Etc. Patent No. 4359." The item is signed and trademarked by the manufacturer on one side of the rule. The signature reads, "Dring & Fage Maker. 56 Stamford St., London." The approximate date of the item is based on the manufacturer's address history.
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Manuscripts
Handwritten foreword to Joseph A. Sullivan's intended publication of the diary of California Episcopal Bishop William Ingraham Kip (1811-1893). The forward traces the history of the Protestant Church in the San Francisco area during the 1850s, as well including a brief history of the Kip family and a biography of William Kip. The second half of the foreword focuses on James Edward Oglethorpe (1696-1785), founder of the Georgia colony. The book was apparently never published.
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Presents the history of revolutionary thought and the birth of socialism, from the French Revolution and the 1824 rediscovery by Jules Michelet of the ideas of Italian political philosopher Giovanni Vico about the perfectibility of man, through the 19th-century collaboration of Marx and Engels, to the 1917 arrival of Vladimir Lenin at Finland Station, Saint Petersburg, to lead the Bolsheviks in the Russian Revolution.--Adapted from Wikipedia.
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