Early Geology and Geography

This book collection CD, with 28 books, includes Herodotus and Marco Polo, as well as Sir Charles Lyell and books about the San Francisco earthquakes.

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Table of Contents

Geology

• The American Goliah: a Wonderful Geological Discovery; a Petrified Giant Discovered in Onondaga County, NY
• The Birth-Time of the World by J. Joly
• The Elements of Geology by W.H. Norton
• Harvard Classics volume 38: Sicentific Papers (Physiology, Medicine, Surgery, Geology
• Prejudices which have retarded the pgrogress of geology by Sir Charles Lyell
• Uniformity in the series of past changes in  the animal and inanimate world by Sir Charles Lyell
• The Lake in the Sky: Lake Tahoe int he High Sierras of California and Nevada by George Wharton James
• Madam How and Lady Why or First Lessons in Earth Lore for Chlidren by Charles Kingsley
• Minerologia Polyglotta [in German] by Chr. Keffenstein
• Pressure, Resistance, and Sability of Earth by J.C. Meem
• South American Geology by Charles Darwin
• The Student's Elements of Geology by Charles Lyell
• Theory of the Earth by James Hutton,
• volume 1 of 4
• volume 2 of 4
• Town Geology by Charles Kingsley
• Volcanic Islands by Charles Darwin
• The Voyage of the Beagle by Charles Darwin
• Earthquakes
• An Assessment of the consequences and Preparation for a Catastrophic California Earth quake, 1980
• Catalogue of Violent and Destructive Earethquakes in the Philippines
• San Francisco During the Eventful Days of April 1906
• The San Francisco Calamity by Earthquake and Fire, edited by Charles Morris

Geography

• Around the World on a Bicycle, volume 1, by Thomas Stevens
• A Briefe Introduction to Geography by William Pemble, 1630
• Highroads of Geography by Anonymous, 1916
• The History of Herodotus translated by G.C. Macaulay
• volume 1
• volume 2
• International Conference held at Wahsington for the purpose of fixing a prime meridian and a universal day, 1884
• The Travels of Marco Polo (the Yule-cordier Edition)
• volume 1
• volume 2
Voyage of the Paper Canoe: a geographical journey of 2500 miles from Quebec to the Gulf of Mexico during the years 1874-75 by Nathaniel Bishop