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Excerpt from The Early Annals of the English in Bengal, Vol. 2: Being the Bengal Public Consultations for the First Half of the Eighteenth Century, Part II, the Surman EmbassyHe also wrote an article on Bibi J uliana in the Indian Chatroh. Quarterly, Review for October 1900, and contributed several articles to the Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal in Calcutta.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and...

Excerpt from The Early Annals of the English in Bengal: Being the Bengal Public Consultations for the First Half of the Eighteenth Century, Summarised, Extracted, and Edited With Introductions and Illustrative AddendaIN the present volume, and in those which are to follow, I propose to do two things.In the first place, I propose to publish extracts from the records preserved in the India Office which deal with the history of the English at Cal...

Excerpt from Old Fort William in Bengal, Vol. 1: A Selection of Official Documents Dealing With Its HistoryHad Dr. C. R. Wilson lived to complete these volumes, his minute knowledge of the early history of Calcutta would have enabled him to give in the introduction an interesting picture, not only of the growth of Fort William, but also of the official and social life of the settlement which clustered round it. His untimely death has left his ...

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Excerpt from The Early Annals of the English in Bengal, Vol. 2: Being the Bengal Public Consultations for the First Half of the Eighteenth Century, Part II, the Surman Embassy Belles Lettree. The merits of Wilson's work in this direction have been recognized by his University, which granted him his Doctorate in Literature, as he told me himself, after an examination founded on his own Early Annals of the English in Bengal. About the Publishe...

From Robert Charles Wilson, the Hugo Award-winning author of Spin, comes Julian Comstock, an exuberant adventure in a post-climate-change America.In the reign of President Deklan Comstock, a reborn United States is struggling back to prosperity. Over a century after the Efflorescence of Oil, after the Fall of the Cities, after the False Tribulation, after the days of the Pious Presidents, the sixty stars and thirteen stripes wave from the plai...

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Die Sterne am Himmel verschwinden Der junge Tyler Dupree sitzt eines Abends mit seinen Freunden auf dem Dach - als plötzlich die Sterne verschwinden. Am nächsten Morgen geht zwar die Sonne auf, aber ihr Licht erscheint wie durch einen Filter. Satelliten fallen aus, der Mond ist verschwunden. Ein riesiger Energieschirm scheint sich um die Erde gelegt zu haben. Wie ist so etwas möglich? Wer ist dafür verantwortlich? Und was wird damit bezweckt? ...

Die mehrfach preisgekrönte Trilogie erstmals in einem Band Eines Tages legt sich ein gigantischer Energieschirm um die Erde. Als er Jahre später wieder verschwindet, hat sich die Welt grundlegend verändert: Riesige Tore verbinden die Erde nun mit anderen, Lichtjahre entfernten Planeten. Wie groß ist dieses Netzwerk aus Welten? Zu welchem Zweck wurde es geschaffen? Und vor allem: von wem? Für den jungen Tyler Dupree beginnt ein Abenteuer, das ...

Wildly praised by readers and critics alike, Robert Charles Wilson's Spin won science fiction's highest honor, the Hugo Award for Best Novel.Now, in Spin's direct sequel, Wilson takes us to the "world next door"--the planet engineered by the mysterious Hypotheticals to support human life, and connected to Earth by way of the Arch that towers hundreds of miles over the Indian Ocean. Humans are colonizing this new world--and, predictably, fierce...

Uganda and the Egyptian Soudan is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1882. 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. Hansebooks newly publi...

Uganda and the Egyptian Soudan - Volume II is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1882. 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. Hanseboo...

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Excerpt from Old Fort William in Bengal, Vol. 1: A Selection of Official Documents Dealing With Its HistoryHad Dr. C. R. Wilson lived to complete these volumes, his minute knowledge of the early history of Calcutta would have enabled him to give in the introduction an interesting picture, not only of the growth of Fort William, but also of the official and social life of the settlement which clustered round it. His untimely death has left his ...

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Two events made September 1 a memorable day for Jesse Cullum. First, he lost a pair of Oakley sunglasses. Second, he saved the life of President Ulysses S. Grant. Its the near future, and the technology exists to open doorways into the past - but not our past, not exactly. Each past is effectively an alternative world, identical to ours but only up to the date on which we access it. And a given past can be reached only once. After a passageway...

In this spectacular novel of immense scope, an artificial, alien barrier is placed around the Earth, the moon and stars disappear, and scientists discover that time is passing faster outside the barrier than it is on the planet.

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