In this volume, Featherstonhaugh inveighs against fraudulent land speculators, slavery, the treatment of the Cherokee, and the bad manners of fellow travelers.
Romer describes her travels to popular tourist destinations in Egypt, Nubia, and Palestine. She organizes her trip by theme rather than in diary style, and comments on the people she meets as well as the sites she visits.
In this book, Pierre de Coubertin recounts the history of the Third Republic. Key events and politics are examined, but the author also deals with social issues, education, ideas and habits, and relations with the Church.
Diesen Mangel rügte ich bereits im ersten Bande meines Achmimwerkes und gab damals der Hoffnung Ausdruck (1891, R. Forrer, Die Gräben und Textilfunde von Achmim-Panopolis), dass es mir vergönnt sein werde, später einmal den Fundort ...