| I remember that it was nice to be able to check out Nelson's computer lib, as it was ridiculously expensive and hard to get hold of second hand. A couple of other classics like Knuth, the smalltalk manual and Forth books is also nice to be able to read in hard copy. But then, I remember I got half way through a copy of, I believe it was: "Narrative of the expedition of an American squadron to the China seas and Japan, performed in the years 1852, 1853 and 1854, under the command of M.C. Perry"
Francis Lister Hawks
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New York
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1856 https://bibsys-almaprimo.hosted.exlibrisgroup.com/primo-expl... As tangentially related to the year of Japanese I studied. Had to go to the library to read it - copy was too old and rare for me to take home (which was part of why I only got halfway through - but seeing that it's 600 pages I don't feel quite so bad about that). Ed: looks like it is available at archive.org - not as nice as the physical book, but for the curious: https://archive.org/details/narrativeofexped0156perr https://archive.org/details/narrativeofexped01perr (looks like two different sources?) |