The British Expedition to the Crimea. E-book. Formato PDF William Howard Russell   -  Forgotten Books, 2017  - 

For. Several years the History of the British Expedition to the Crimea, founded on the Letters from the Crimea of the Times Correspondent, has been out of print, and the publishers have been unable to execute orders continually arriving for 00pies of the work. At the present moment the interest of the public in what is called the Eastern Question has been revived very forcibly, and the policy of this country in entering upon the war of 1854, has been much discussed in the Press and in Parliament. Bulgaria.

A Visit to Chile and the Nitrate Fields of Tarapaca, Etc. E-book. Formato PDF William Howard Russell   -  Forgotten Books, 2017  - 

I was invited to go out that I might see and report what had been done and what was being done, and to examine the works which had transformed the desert of Tarapaca wastes without a sign of life or vegetation — into a centre of commercial enterprise, and which had covered it with ani mated industry and prosperous life. It had been asserted in certain journals that commercial enterprises in that region were shams swindles, indeed, would be the word to use if they were what those organs described them to be — and that a railway, in which the public had invested largely, was a tramway ending in a marsh. Although I can not say I was a very Gallio in respect to these things, I certainly knew nothing of them. I told my friends that I was perfectly and altogether ignorant in that con nection. So much the better! All I would have to do was to judge for myself and relate what I saw. There was no mystery to penetrate, no theory to demolish or sus tain, no complex problems to study.

The Prince of Wales Tour, a Diary in India: With Some Account of the Visits of His Royal Highness, to the Courts of Greece, Egypt, Spain, and Portugal. E-book. Formato PDF William Howard Russell   -  Forgotten Books, 2017  - 

A few words to the reader to explain some matters connected with this book. It is a Journal or Diary kept from day to day, in which the Prince of Wales is the central figure round which all the things, persons and events mentioned in it revolve, so that if his name and title occur repeatedly in the same page, it is necessary, from the nature of the work, that they should do so. The impressions recorded by the writer are his own; and if, as is rarely the case, opinions are expressed on questions of policy or of government, they must not be ascribed to anyone but to him who states them. Wherever the word "we" occurs, the reader is prayed to take it as meaning "the Royal party," not as the pronoun in an editorial sense, or as indicative of any intent to involve the identity of the Prince with that of the gentlemen who accompanied him.