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Trieste Publishing has a massive catalogue of classic book titles. Our aim is to provide readers with the highest quality reproductions of fiction and non-fiction literature that has stood the test of time. The many thousands of books in our collection have been sourced from libraries and private collections around the world.The titles that Trieste Publishing has chosen to be part of the collection have been scanned to simulate the original. O...

About the Book Titles in this category are about Antiques and Collectibles describe items that are valuable or of interest to collectors. Older collectibles provide insights into a previous time period in history, or may exhibit a high level of craftsmanship, or unique design, or represent another or ancient culture. The list of collectible items is immense, some examples covered by our titles being: Worcester Royal Porcelain, Greek and Roman ...

About the Book Books about Travel in Iceland and Greenland describe travel, tourism and adventures in these north Atlantic islands. Titles include: Journal of a voyage to Greenland, in the year 1821. With graphic illustrations, The Book of the Settlement of Iceland, The Cruise of the Esquimaux, Steam Whaler, to Davis Straits and Baffin Bay, April-October, 1899, and Letters from High Latitudes, Being Some Account of a Voyage in 1856 in the Scho...

Völsunga Saga - The Story of the Volsungs and Niblungs, with Certain Songs from the Elder Edda is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1888. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres. As a publisher we focus on the preservation of historical literature. Many works of historical writers and scien...

The Saga Library - Vol. III Heimskriingla, Vol. I is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1891. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres. As a publisher we focus on the preservation of historical literature. Many works of historical writers and scientists are available today as antiques only. H...

Reprint of the original from 1906.

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Reprint of the original, first published in 1906.

Reprint of the original, first published in 1906.

Reprint of the original, first published in 1906.

Excerpt from National Life and Thought of the Various Nations Throughout the World: A Series of Addresses The Lectures contained in this Volume were delivered on Sunday afternoon, at South Place Institute, during the Session 1889-90, and were designed to give information, in a popular form, with regard to the national development and modes of political action among the different nations throughout the world, by means of sympathetic and trustw...

Excerpt from Grettis Saga: The Story of Grettir the Strong, Translated From the Iceland As some may like to know what they are going to read about before venturing on beginning the book, we will now give a short outline of our Saga. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books us...

Excerpt from Three Northern Love Stories and Other Tales: Translated From the Icelandic The Viglund, again, in spite of its story being localised definitely enough, is confessedly nothing but a pure fiction, and in more than one place the tale-teller has borrowed from earlier stories e.g. The incident at p. 192 from the Frithiof, and the fight in which the sons of Holmkell are slain from the story of Helgi and Grim, the sons of Droplaug. It s...

This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books may have occasional errors that do not impede the reading experience. We believe this work is culturally important and have elected to bring the book back into print as part of our cont...

This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed w...

The first of William Morris's great fantastic romances is a translation of the old Norse saga, The House of the Wolfings. Of this tale, The Encyclodedia of Fantasy wrote: "The first step toward the characteristic large-scale fantasies which have had such influence on the genre . . . is The House of the Wolfings. Here the setting is quasi-historical: a European Saxon community is resisting the decadent advances of late Imperial Rome. The roman...