A Book-Lover's Holidays in the Open
A Book-Lover's Holidays in the Open by Theodore Roosevelt is available here as the complete text, split into 642 reading sections of 5 sentences, each with audio and tap-to-define vocabulary.
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Project Gutenberg eBook #34135, unabridged. The Project Gutenberg header, footer and licence are removed.
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- Life-histories
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- African
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- Edmund
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