And what did we find? Here are a few for your reading pleasure and information:
The Discovery of America:
With Some Account of Ancient America and the Spanish Conquest
Author: John Fisk (1842-1901)
Published by: Houghton Mifflin, Boston: 1892
Our Lost Explorers: The Narrative of the Jeannette Arctic Expedition
As Related by the Survivors, and in the Records and Last Journals of Lieutenant De Long
Author: Richard W. Bliss; Compiled by: Raymond Lee Newcomb
Published by: American Publishing Co., Hartford, Connecticut, 1882
Columbus and Columbia; A Pictorial History of the Man and the Nation,
Embracing a Review of Our Country's Progress ...
Authors: James W. Buel (1849-1920); John Clark Ridpath (1840-1900);
Benjamin Butterworth (1837-1998); James Gillespie Blaine (1830-1893)
Published by: Caie, Cincinnati, 1892
Missionary Explorers Among the American Indians
Edited by: Mary Gay Humphreys
Published by: C. Scribner's Sons, New York, 1913
We actually found a total of 35 Bullis books telling of discoveries in the Amazon, Jerusalem, Argentina, Paraguay, China, Nippur, the Nile, Equatorial Africa, Siberia, and Scandinavia (to name a few),
So ... tomorrow is a holiday and many of us have the day off work -- but Macedon Public Library will be open. Please consider stopping by and spending part of your day exploring the Bullis Room for yourself.
