Balder Ex-Libris - Fraser John FosterReview of books rare and missing2024-03-16T01:56:42+00:00urn:md5:aa728a70505b2fae05796923271581c2DotclearFraser John Foster - Youth's golden cycleurn:md5:3e16331c6d23d7305671b4b80cb0a99a2013-09-14T00:24:00+01:002013-09-14T00:32:19+01:00balderFraser John FosterEngland <p><img src="https://balderexlibris.com/public/img2/.Fraser_John_Foster_-_Youth_s_golden_cycle_s.jpg" alt="" /><br />
Author : <strong>Fraser John Foster</strong><br />
Title : <strong>Youth's golden cycle or, round the globe in sixty chapters How to get on in the world</strong><br />
Year : 1885<br />
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Hints on Success in Life; Examples of Successful Men ; The Blessings of Loving Mothers, Careful Housewives, Clean, Cozy Homes; What and How to Eat and Drink: What to Read and How to Write; The Structure and Uses of the Most Important Members of the Body: How to Be and Keep Strong; The Wonders of Creation, Science and Art; Little Things their Importance ; Entertaining Stories of Animals ; Animals their Language and Habits : "Queer Fishes"; A Chamber of Marvels : Ballads, Poetry, Fiction, etc., etc. <strong>...</strong></p>Fraser John Foster - The real Siberiaurn:md5:233e6c170acbcd40b23b0cb62b8426de2013-09-14T00:20:00+01:002013-09-13T23:21:20+01:00balderFraser John FosterRussia <p><img src="https://balderexlibris.com/public/img2/.Fraser_John_Foster_-_The_real_Siberia_s.jpg" alt="" /><br />
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Title : <strong>The real Siberia Together with an account of a dash through Manchuria</strong><br />
Year : 1902<br />
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This volume lays claim to give nothing more than personal impressions of a journey made across Siberia and through Manchuria in the autumn of 1901. I went to Siberia on a mission of curiosity, with the average Britisher's prejudice against things Russian, and with my eyes wide open to see things I might criticise and even condemn. <strong>...</strong></p>Fraser John Foster - The land of veiled womenurn:md5:dfa1ceec008fd9317860ef713cc90c912013-09-14T00:14:00+01:002013-09-13T23:17:48+01:00balderFraser John FosterAlgeriaIslamMoroccoTunisia <p><img src="https://balderexlibris.com/public/img2/.Fraser_John_Foster_-_The_land_of_veiled_women_s.jpg" alt="" /><br />
Author : <strong>Fraser John Foster</strong><br />
Title : <strong>The land of veiled women Some wanderings in Algeria, Tunisia and Morocco</strong><br />
Year : 1911<br />
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For days I crossed a land of drifting sand and scorching sun, and now I have reached the oasis, where water gurgles and palm-trees grow and the Arab town of Bou-Saada rests by a river. <strong>...</strong></p>Fraser John Foster - The conquering jewurn:md5:d4d0aae44a9bb5653991b9a5892c58712013-09-13T23:52:00+01:002013-09-13T23:09:39+01:00balderFraser John FosterAmericaAsiaAustriaConspiracyEnglandEuropeFranceGermanyJewPolandRussia <p><img src="https://balderexlibris.com/public/img2/.Fraser_John_Foster_-_The_conquering_jew_s.jpg" alt="" /><br />
Author : <strong>Fraser John Foster</strong><br />
Title : <strong>The conquering jew</strong><br />
Year : 1915<br />
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It is well if at the outset I make clear that these pages are not written from a proSemite or anti-Semite point of view. Many books have been published about the Jews; but the majority are marred by over-enthusiasm or violence of opinion, and lack the judicial spirit which is necessary in contemplating a phenomenon which is also a problem. <strong>...</strong></p>Fraser John Foster - The amazing Argentineurn:md5:5231e3509b53f728250c3112dee39c3c2013-09-13T23:51:00+01:002013-09-13T22:52:50+01:00balderFraser John FosterArgentina <p><img src="https://balderexlibris.com/public/img2/.Fraser_John_Foster_-_The_amazing_Argentine_s.jpg" alt="" /><br />
Author : <strong>Fraser John Foster</strong><br />
Title : <strong>The amazing Argentine</strong><br />
Year : 1914<br />
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It was on a boat which was laden with bananas and running from Colon, on the Isthmus of Panama, to New York. The steward called me at dawn. He thought I was mad because I stood in pyjamas without apparent heed of the mirky drizzle. Beyond the sad waters there was little to see but a low-lying and dreary island with a melancholy hghthouse. No vegetation brightened the scene. There was no gorgeous sunrise. There was nothing but a lump of barrenness heaving out of the sea. But this was the island of San Salvador, the western land which Columbus first touched when he sailed to find the Indies. <strong>...</strong></p>Fraser John Foster - Russia of to-dayurn:md5:b86bbc7a59a8310c16fc0739e22a0fd72013-09-13T23:39:00+01:002013-09-13T22:45:19+01:00balderFraser John FosterRussia <p><img src="https://balderexlibris.com/public/img2/.Fraser_John_Foster_-_Russia_of_to-day_s.jpg" alt="" /><br />
Author : <strong>Fraser John Foster</strong><br />
Title : <strong>Russia of to-day</strong><br />
Year : 1916<br />
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Petrograd is the head of Russia, and Moscow is the heart of it. But the soul of Russia spreadeth throughout the land and is not to be measured. Russia is Russia. That is not a cheap truism. It is one of those big facts that the foreigner does not often remember. For he goes to the country soaked with his British and other prejudices, stuffed with conceit that he and his race own the ark of righteousness and, when he finds other people doing things in a way different from his own, he concludes the other people must be wrong. <strong>...</strong></p>Fraser John Foster - Round the world on a wheelurn:md5:12f0623f650ba492c2304c5e0a5a1d852013-09-13T23:36:00+01:002013-09-13T22:39:27+01:00balderFraser John FosterAmericaAsiaEurope <p><img src="https://balderexlibris.com/public/img2/.Fraser_John_Foster_-_Round_the_world_on_a_wheel_s.jpg" alt="" /><br />
Author : <strong>Fraser John Foster</strong><br />
Title : <strong>Round the world on a wheel</strong><br />
Year : 1899<br />
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Being the narrative of a bicycle ride of nineteen thousand two hundred and thirty-seven miles through seventeen countries and across three continents. <strong>...</strong></p>Fraser John Foster - Red Russiaurn:md5:7f3542f45b70a35686e684a380e592162013-09-13T21:46:00+01:002013-09-13T20:49:56+01:00balderFraser John FosterCommunismRussia <p><img src="https://balderexlibris.com/public/img2/.Fraser_John_Foster_-_Red_Russia_s.jpg" alt="" /><br />
Author : <strong>Fraser John Foster</strong><br />
Title : <strong>Red Russia</strong><br />
Year : 1907<br />
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The "Bear" Restaurant in St. Petersburg holds much the same place among Eussians as does the Savoy Restaurant among Londoners. It is at night, when ordinary folk are seeking their candles and going to bed, that the "Bear" blazes with effulgence. Droshkies clatter over the heavy cobbles which pave the streets, and deliver at the great doorway burdens of fair women in the radiance of evening toilette. Their escorts are officers of the Czar, straight, well-built, wellgroomed men in the rich blue-grey garb of their regiments. The sword-straps are of gold, and the sword hangs straight by the leg, the Bliicher boots of daintiest leather, of neat shape, japanned, and for drawing-room rather than field wear. <strong>...</strong></p>Fraser John Foster - Pictures from the Balkansurn:md5:a252512933370167a9e6c0a0be922b882013-09-13T21:44:00+01:002013-09-13T20:46:26+01:00balderFraser John FosterEurope <p><img src="https://balderexlibris.com/public/img2/.Fraser_John_Foster_-_Pictures_from_the_Balkans_s.jpg" alt="" /><br />
Author : <strong>Fraser John Foster</strong><br />
Title : <strong>Pictures from the Balkans</strong><br />
Year : 1912<br />
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Riding in Macedonia I passed the village of Orovsji. The inhabitants had just buried seven Bulgarians and four Turkish soldiers who had killed each other the previous day. Othervfise all was quiet. <strong>...</strong></p>Fraser John Foster - Panama and what it meansurn:md5:d6f0ba3d6b9fa2248dd58cf29671f0eb2013-09-13T21:40:00+01:002013-09-13T20:41:05+01:00balderFraser John FosterPanama <p><img src="https://balderexlibris.com/public/img2/.Fraser_John_Foster_-_Panama_and_what_it_means_s.jpg" alt="" /><br />
Author : <strong>Fraser John Foster</strong><br />
Title : <strong>Panama and what it means</strong><br />
Year : 1913<br />
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"Yes," observed the American enthusiast, "it is a great ditch. You see those :flat cars piled with dirt ? Well, by the time the Atlantic joins the Paciftc we shall have removed as mueh· dirt as would fill a train of such ears 16,000 miles long, which is getting pretty near four times round the earth. Yes, it is a great ditch." <strong>...</strong></p>Fraser John Foster - Life's contrastsurn:md5:ece5d8c0b4e774fae64e9744552cc7d32013-09-13T21:31:00+01:002013-09-13T20:37:08+01:00balderFraser John FosterEnglandReligion <p><img src="https://balderexlibris.com/public/img2/.Fraser_John_Foster_-_Life_s_contrasts_s.jpg" alt="" /><br />
Author : <strong>Fraser John Foster</strong><br />
Title : <strong>Life's contrasts</strong><br />
Year : 1908<br />
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My children were charmingly mysterious this evening. They consulted in corners, and had hurried whisperings with their mother. Evidently a tremendous secret, which they advertised with flushed cheeks, sly looks at me, and sudden exclamations, " Daddy, it is not fair you should listen. " When I pretended indignation at being left out of their confidences I was assured I would know all about it to-morrow. <strong>...</strong></p>Fraser John Foster - Canada as it isurn:md5:1031c951461558eca1a2ef1df96633292013-09-13T21:25:00+01:002013-09-13T21:25:00+01:00balderFraser John FosterCanadaNorth America <p><img src="https://balderexlibris.com/public/img2/.Fraser_John_Foster_-_Canada_as_it_is_s.jpg" alt="" /><br />
Author : <strong>Fraser John Foster</strong><br />
Title : <strong>Canada as it is</strong><br />
Year : 1905<br />
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I have chosen the title, "Canada As It Is," for three reasons. Firstly, because the popular idea about the great Dominion is that it is a region clasped most of the year in ice and frost, which it is not ; secondly, because the Canadians themselves, by means of Government pamphlets a.nd subsidised lecturers, would like the world to believe it the most delightful land to live in, which it isn't; and thirdly, because Canada has just emerged from its adolescence as a nation, has reached lusty man~ hood, and has become conscious of the great r6le it may play in the history of commerce. <strong>...</strong></p>Fraser John Foster - Australiaurn:md5:46c5cdef403324f42475d8f53ae38b132013-09-13T20:54:00+01:002013-09-13T19:55:05+01:00balderFraser John FosterAnglo-SaxonAustralia <p><img src="https://balderexlibris.com/public/img2/.Fraser_John_Foster_-_Australia_s.jpg" alt="" /><br />
Author : <strong>Fraser John Foster</strong><br />
Title : <strong>Australia</strong><br />
Year : 1911<br />
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This is a book about you — the impressions, the investigations, and the conclusions of a world-wanderer who spent a few months in your midst. For years many of you wrote to me: "You write books about America, Canada, Russia, Siberia, and other lands; why don't you come here and tell the world about us ? Tell the truth, and we'll give you a good time when you are here." <strong>...</strong></p>Fraser John Foster - America at workurn:md5:76bfd0faef55f88f73f11b2fbd7cce3d2013-09-13T17:55:00+01:002013-09-13T16:57:18+01:00balderFraser John FosterUnited States <p><img src="https://balderexlibris.com/public/img2/.Fraser_John_Foster_-_America_at_work_s.jpg" alt="" /><br />
Author : <strong>Fraser John Foster</strong><br />
Title : <strong>America at work</strong><br />
Year : 1903<br />
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I have written this book, not because I wish to laud the United States at the expanse of Great Britain, but because, having travelled much in many lands and having often had my patriotism stung by the contemptuous way in which foreigners speak of British industries, I desire British workers to get level with the industrial times. <strong>...</strong></p>