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en
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Project Gutenberg
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Produced by Sonya Schermann, sp1nd and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)
Release date
2014-09-01
Rights
Public domain in the USA.

1799–1858
A restless 19th-century man of letters, he wrote across history, travel, biography, and popular journalism, bringing a lively, accessible style to subjects ranging from Britain to the Ottoman world. His career mixed literary ambition with firsthand experience, including years spent abroad and a period of debt imprisonment.
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