Williams Fred eBooks
eBooks di Williams Fred editi da Forgotten Books
On Many Seas: The Life and Exploits of a Yankee Sailor. E-book. Formato PDF Frederick Benton Williams - Forgotten Books, 2017 -
Whatever value this book may have is due to the fact that it is the plain story of a plain man, told in his own words. I had often listened to his stories with pleasure, and at last persuaded him to write them down, and it is but just to him to say that my task as editor has been confined to cutting out some yarns which, however suitable to the leisure of the forecastle, would have taken up too much space in print.
Our Iron Roads: Their History, Construction, and Administration. E-book. Formato PDF Frederick Smeeton Williams - Forgotten Books, 2017 -
The road-side halt, the post-horn's well-known air, The inns, the gaping towns, and all the landscape fair. There were also various other sources of innocent enjoyment in the journeyings of our grandfathers of which we have been bereft and it must, for instance, have been very agreeable for a lady to be married in her riding habit, and jog off for her honeymoon on her pillion, with her arm round her husband's waist.