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Prairie Traveler, The by Marcy, Randolph Barnes

24-mag-13
Commissioned by the US War Department and written in 1859 by a decorated US Army captain, The Prairie Traveler is a complete how-to travel guide for the westward-bound pioneer. Covering topics from first aid for rattlesnake bites to how to travel 70 miles across the desert without water for one's livestock, the guide includes 28 travel itineraries with mileage and firewood availability. (Summary by Angela Rowland)

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Prairie Traveler, The by Marcy, Randolph Barnes

24-mag-13
Commissioned by the US War Department and written in 1859 by a decorated US Army captain, The Prairie Traveler is a complete how-to travel guide for the westward-bound pioneer. Covering topics from first aid for rattlesnake bites to how to travel 70 miles across the desert without water for one's livestock, the guide includes 28 travel itineraries with mileage and firewood availability. (Summary by Angela Rowland)

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我等の一團と彼 (Warerano ichidan to kare) by Ishikawa, Takuboku

23-mag-13
歌人、石川啄木が書いた小説。新聞記者だった自身の体験も反映しているように思われる東京の新聞社の社会部の一団が登場する。主人公は、亀山、肺病になって結局、退社してしまう画工の松永、その松永の面倒をよく見た高橋などが登場する。

The author is famous with Tanka (31-character poetry). But he also wrote several novels. He worked as a reporter at several newspapers. His experience reflects on this story.

This is a story among reporters at a newspaper company in Tokyo. (Summary by ekzemplaro)

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我等の一團と彼 (Warerano ichidan to kare) by Ishikawa, Takuboku

23-mag-13
歌人、石川啄木が書いた小説。新聞記者だった自身の体験も反映しているように思われる東京の新聞社の社会部の一団が登場する。主人公は、亀山、肺病になって結局、退社してしまう画工の松永、その松永の面倒をよく見た高橋などが登場する。

The author is famous with Tanka (31-character poetry). But he also wrote several novels. He worked as a reporter at several newspapers. His experience reflects on this story.

This is a story among reporters at a newspaper company in Tokyo. (Summary by ekzemplaro)

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Ordeal of Mark Twain, The by Brooks, Van Wyck

23-mag-13
This book, published in 1920, analyzes the literary progression of Samuel Clemens and his shortcomings (which are debatable). Brooks attributes Clemens' increasing sense of pessimism to the repression of his creative spirit due largely to his mother and his wife. (Summary by Wikipedia and Lucretia B.).

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I Was a Teen-Aged Secret Weapon by Sabia, Richard

23-mag-13
Poor Dolliver Wims is a terribly misunderstood teen age boy from the backwoods. Is he mean or evil? Quite the opposite: He does nothing wrong, hurts no one and wants only to be liked and to help, yet he seems to be blamed for every accident that ever happens to anyone in the University research facility where he 'works' as a porter. Why does disaster seem to swirl around him like a tornado whips around it's eye. He never is hurt in the slightest way while others slash themselves with previously innocent knives, are smashed by falling bookcases that had no cause to fall, and are shot by guns that are safely tucked away. And of course when he enters the army, with it's concentrated availability of destructive equipment, the situation only seems to get worse. Why? Listen to this delightful tale of future wars and a secret weapon named Dolliver Wims and how he may be the key to world peace. Or perhaps it's the other way around .... (Summary by Phil Chenevert)

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Astounding Stories 01, January 1930 by Various

23-mag-13
In January of 1930 a new magazine with a flashy color cover appeared on newsstands, Astounding Stories of Super-Science. Filled with stories of adventure, sometimes with only a tinge of science, this magazine was to host and nurture many science fiction giants like Murray Leinster and Ray Cummings and would help inspire many of the writers of the "Golden Age of Science Fiction". This inaugural issue includes stories by Murray Leinster, Ray Cummings, S. P. Meek, Victor Rousseau and others. (Summary by Alan Winterrowd)

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Astounding Stories 01, January 1930 by Various

23-mag-13
In January of 1930 a new magazine with a flashy color cover appeared on newsstands, Astounding Stories of Super-Science. Filled with stories of adventure, sometimes with only a tinge of science, this magazine was to host and nurture many science fiction giants like Murray Leinster and Ray Cummings and would help inspire many of the writers of the "Golden Age of Science Fiction". This inaugural issue includes stories by Murray Leinster, Ray Cummings, S. P. Meek, Victor Rousseau and others. (Summary by Alan Winterrowd)

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Astounding Stories 01, January 1930 by Various

23-mag-13
In January of 1930 a new magazine with a flashy color cover appeared on newsstands, Astounding Stories of Super-Science. Filled with stories of adventure, sometimes with only a tinge of science, this magazine was to host and nurture many science fiction giants like Murray Leinster and Ray Cummings and would help inspire many of the writers of the "Golden Age of Science Fiction". This inaugural issue includes stories by Murray Leinster, Ray Cummings, S. P. Meek, Victor Rousseau and others. (Summary by Alan Winterrowd)

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Hillside Thaw, The by Frost, Robert

21-mag-13
LibriVox volunteers bring you 10 recordings of The Hillside Thaw by Robert Frost. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for May 5th, 2013.

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