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20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
By Jules Verne; Translated by Walter James Miller and Frederick Paul Walter

For the past 120 years, readers of English have known only a poor imitation of Jules Verne's classic French novel Vingt Mille Lieues Sous les Mers and consequently relegated the writer to the category of a "boy's author". Since 1873 the standard English version has been Lewis Mercier's mangled "translation," a work that's filled with errors, mistranslations, and bogus additions ...

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Crucible Of Empire
America and the War with Spain
Edited by James C. Bradford
With this war and its sequelae the US moved onto center stage among the major powers. Such a pivotal event has received much less attention than one would expect. Bradford, along with D.F. Trask, G.A. Cosmas, H.D. Langley, J. Shulison and others, begin to redress this neglect with their exploration of the US naval, military, and diplomatic conduct that led ...
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