Excerpt from Chronicles of the Customs Department In the collection of the Customs many curious events have occurred which, perchance, are little known to the present generation. The existing records of the London Custom House possess a national importance, and in the following pages will be found a brief history of the origin and develop ment of a system, which, from small proportions has grown to such an extent, that the Exchequer at the present time derives a sum exceeding twenty three millions annually from the Customs. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

The New World story of the Spanish explorer Cabeza de Vaca in his own words This riveting true story is the first major narrative detailing the exploration of North America by Spanish conquistadors (1528-1536). The author, Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca, was a fortune-seeking Spanish nobleman and the treasurer of an expedition sent to claim for Spain a vast area of today's southern United States. In simple, straightforward prose, Cabeza de Vaca chronicles the nine-year odyssey endured by the men after a shipwreck forced them to make a westward journey on foot from present-day Florida through Louisiana and Texas into California. In thirty-eight brief chapters, Cabeza de Vaca describes the scores of natural and human obstacles they encountered as they made their way across an unknown land. Cabeza de Vaca's gripping account offers a trove of ethnographic information, including descriptions and interpretations of native cultures, making it a powerful precursor to modern anthropology. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

NOBEL PRIZE WINNER • From the author of One Hundred Years of Solitude comes the gripping story of the murder of a young aristocrat that puts an entire society—not just a pair of murderers—on trial. A man returns to the town where a baffling murder took place 27 years earlier, determined to get to the bottom of the story. Just hours after marrying the beautiful Angela Vicario, everyone agrees, Bayardo San Roman returned his bride in disgrace to her parents. Her distraught family forced her to name her first lover; and her twin brothers announced their intention to murder Santiago Nasar for dishonoring their sister. Yet if everyone knew the murder was going to happen, why did no one intervene to stop it? The more that is learned, the less is understood, as the story races to its inexplicable conclusion.

In twelth-century Jerusalem, orphaned sixteen-year-old Pagan is assigned to work for Lord Roland, a Templar knight, as Saladin's armies close in on the Holy City.

A collection of Old English annals, the original manuscript of ‘The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle’ was created late in the ninth century, during the reign of Alfred the Great. It is the oldest history of a European country in its vernacular, offering a treasure trove of knowledge of the Anglo-Saxon period. Along with Bede’s ‘Ecclesiastical History of the English People’, it provides an insight into the history of the English in the period following Roman rule up until the Norman Conquest, preserving a variety of depictions of Anglo-Saxon life. Delphi’s Medieval Library provides eReaders with rare and precious works of the Middle Ages, with noted English translations and the original texts. This eBook presents multiple translations of ‘The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle’, with illustrations, a concise introduction and the usual Delphi bonus material. (Version 1) * Beautifully illustrated with images relating to the Anglo-Saxon texts * Features the complete extant text of ‘The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle’, in both English translation and the original Old English * Concise introduction to the text * Two translations: James Ingram Translation (1823); J. A. Giles Translation (1914) * Includes the translators’ original hyperlinked footnotes * Excellent formatting of the texts * Easily locate the sections you want to read with individual contents tables * Features five bonus resource texts, including Hall’s seminal ‘Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary’ — immerse yourself in the world of the Anglo-Saxons CONTENTS: The Translations Anglo-Saxon Chronicle — James Ingram Translation (1823) Anglo-Saxon Chronicle — J. A. Giles Translation (1914) The Original Texts Old English Manuscripts The Resources History of the Anglo-Saxons (1850) by Thomas Miller Anglo-Saxon Britain (1881) by Grant Allen The Chronicles (1884) by John Earle A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary (1916) by J. R. Clark Hall Anglo-Saxon Learning and Prose (1921) by Andrew Lang