Word: book
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...more amusing exhibits is a book edited by Thomas Tusser in London in 1580 entitled "500 Points of Good Husbandry". The page to which it is opened enumerates the benefits for which the members of a household should be grateful on Christmas...
...particular interest to the many Harvard yachtmen will be this new book setting forth the history and romance of the more than 200 lighthouses and lightships of the New England coast, scattered between West Quoddy Head and the entrance to Long Island Sound. A knowledge of the stories of the lighthouses will add greatly to the pleasure to be derived from a sail along these shores...
...book has over 60 illustrations, mostly photographs. It will prove an extremely valuable and prized addition to the library of any lover of the sea and things nautical...
AFTER the exaggerated, somewhat pathological stories of travel that have been holding forth of late, the wholesome, credibly adventurous tone of this book is very refreshing. It is not entitled to very high praise, either for originality or skillful style, but the author, realizing her limitations, keeps from the danger of affected writing, and her work reflects sincerity and ability, if not literary brilliance...
...Fiji Islands. There are numerous difficulties of practicality and convention to be overcome, but the author and her friend are signed as midshipmaids, and depart, aboard a ship with a cannibal cook and a crew of old-time sailors. The journey takes about two months; the body of the book is made up of the ship's log, which was kept by Miss Cooper...