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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1858 edition. Excerpt: ... what are designated modern tents (1788); they are the present hospital tents. Another plate shows a tent that has perpendicular ends, and it appears to have three poles instead of two. In the Harleian collection is a MS. on vellum, date 1500, in which are represented several tents, bell-shaped and of hospital-tent shapes; they are coloured green, red, and white. The larger tents have a sort of garret window at the top for ventilation. An ancient MS. of the time of Rich...
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Excerpt from Holidays in Tents Easily be bored if other people over-pra their pleasures to us. All that each m holds dearest may seem illusion to anothe. Nor is it likely that the tame chronicle a holiday camper in the home country c contain anything worthy the notice sportsmen and explorers, who with a co} pleteness to which any pretence by i would be absurd have cut themselves 1 from civilization and gone into the Will I am content with a more modest ho] Camping holidays, scattered over twent five years and taken in different parts of t country in all seasons and weathers, ha taught me something, both as to the p16 sure to be gained, and as to the myster of the art. It may be that other bo...
In Indian Tents by Abby Langdon Alger, first published in 1897, is a rare manuscript, the original residing in one of the great libraries of the world. This book is a reproduction of that original, which has been scanned and cleaned by state-of-the-art publishing tools for better readability and enhanced appreciation. Restoration Editors' mission is to bring long out of print manuscripts back to life. Some smudges, annotations or unclear text may still exist, due to permanent damage to the original work. We believe the literary significance of the text justifies offering this reproduction, allowing a new generation to appreciate it.
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