Word: desert
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Pilgrims, Purchas, Vol. 5-8. Weihe, Chamiso, 2, vols. Annual Register, 1904. Life of Reason, Santayana, vols. 3 and 4. Essentials in American History, Hart. Actual Government, Hart. Renan, Barry. Mount Desert, a history, Street. The Philippine Islands, Atkinson. A Southern Girl in '61, Wright. The Ancient Grudge, Pier. Knock at a Venture, Phillpotts. Autobiography, Andrew White. Russia and its Crisis, Milyoukov McAllister and his Double, Train. The Garden of Allah, Hichens. The Irrational Knot, Shaw. The House of Mirth, Wharton. My Friend the Chauffeur, Williamson. The Divine Fire, Sinclair, Iole, Chambers. The Appreciation of Pictures, Sturgis. The Ways...
...days of the island's early colonization, was first visited, and from here the party proceeded to Geysir. At Geysir are situated the largest boiling spring in Iceland, and an extensive field of smaller hot springs. Five days later, after travelling east ward, the expedition started across the Sprengisandr Desert, on its way to Akureyri, on the north coast. The route taken is considered the hardest way of crossing the island, as many fords have to be made, the deepest that across the Thojorsa River, the largest of the rivers of Iceland. On this part of the trip the party...
...corpse and as an altar for ancestral offerings. The grave was brick-lined, and roofed over with wooden logs or slabs of white limestone. Later on was erected around the grave a low wall of dried red brick, which contrasted vividly with the yellow sand of the desert. In its final form the mastaba consisted of a great rectangular stone structure with sloping sides. In its centre was a deep shaft into which was lowered the corpse, and then the hole was filled in with sand and debris. A second chamber, isolated in the wall of the mastaba, contained statues...
Since graduating from Harvard, Mr. Sampson has travelled extensively in the Rocky Mountains and in the Mediterranean countries, visiting Jerusalem and Damascus and crossing the desert to Palmyra. In 1903 as U. S. game preserve expert under the Biological Survey he made a tour of nearly 1300 miles, visiting forest reserves in California and Washington with the object of selecting certain areas where large game shall be protected. He has had an extended experience as a hunter in the West and Northwest and was until recently secretary of the Boone and Crockett Club...
...Botanical Club. A Local Study of Desert Vegetation, conducted at Tuscon, Arizona. (Illustrated with Stereopticon.) Dr. C. E. Preston. Room 12, University Museum...