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A handy book of curious information, comprising strange happenings in the life of men and animals, odd statistics, extraordinary phenomena, and out of the way facts concerning the wonderlands of the earth

William S. Walsh · 1913 · Scanned text · Free in the US

437,310 words · about 30 h 37 min to read

Period artwork: Interior of the Bodleian Library, 1845
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Author
William S. Walsh
Language
English
Published
1913
Length
437,310 words · about 30 h 37 min
Sections
6 reader sections
Text
Scanned text, read from page scans by OCR; may contain errors
Rights
Public domain in the United States · PD-US by publication date

 

Contents (6)
  1. Front matter about 2 min
  2. Introduction about 7 h 27 min
  3. Act ii, Scene 1 under 1 min
  4. Act iii, Scene 3 about 5 h 38 min
  5. I about 32 min
  6. Act iv, Sc 2. Twelve years earlier he had made Borneo say about 16 h 58 min
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