title | creator | language | description | tableOfContents | contributor | subject | created |
Indian Why Stories
Sparks from War Eagle's Lodge-Fire | Linderman, Frank Bird, 1869-1938 | en | | Why the chipmunk's back is striped -- How the ducks got their fine feathers -- Why the kingfisher always wears a war-bonnet -- Why the curlew's bill is long and crooked -- Old-man remakes the world -- Why Blackfeet never kill mice -- How the otter skin became great "medicine" -- Old-man steals the sun's leggings -- Old-man and his conscience -- Old-man's treachery -- Why the night-hawk's wings are beautiful -- Why the mountain-lion is long and lean -- The fire-leggings -- The moon and the great snake -- Why the deer has no gall -- Why Indians whip the buffalo-berries from the bushes -- Old-man and the fox -- Why the birch-tree wears the slashes in its bark -- Mistakes of Old-man -- How the man found his mate -- Dreams -- Retrospection. | | Siksika Indians -- Folklore; Ojibwa Indians -- Folklore; Cree Indians -- Folklore; Tales -- North America | 1996-07-01 |
A Strange Manuscript Found in a Copper Cylinder | De Mille, James, 1833-1880 | en | | | | | 2004-10-01 |
The Life of Captain Matthew Flinders | Scott, Ernest, 1867-1939 | en | | | | | 2004-08-29 |
A Voyage to Terra Australis — Volume 2 | Flinders, Matthew, 1774-1814 | en | | | | | 2004-08-06 |
The Religion of Ancient Egypt | Petrie, W. M. Flinders (William Matthew Flinders), Sir, 1853-1942 | en | | | | | 2009-05-31 |
A Voyage to Terra Australis — Volume 1 | Flinders, Matthew, 1774-1814 | en | | | | | 2004-07-17 |
Watch and Clock Escapements
A Complete Study in Theory and Practice of the Lever, Cylinder and Chronometer Escapements, Together with a Brief Account of the Origin and Evolution of the Escapement in Horology | Anonymous | en | | | | | 2005-11-06 |