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World Library Foundation Newsletter: June 2020, Volume 4, Issue 6

Tales of the Sea: Great Sea Stories for the Long Days of Summer

World Library Foundation Newsletter Dept.

2020

Abstract

The World Library Foundation's newsletter for June 2020 (Volume 4, Issue 6). Tales of the Sea: for World Oceans Day and summer reading, the great voyages of literature, from Richard Henry Dana's Two Years Before the Mast and Jules Verne's Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas at 150 to Treasure Island and Joshua Slocum's Sailing Alone Around the World. Also in this issue: the Executive Director's message, "A Summer of Reading"; Dickens at 150, on the death of Charles Dickens at Gad's Hill on June 9, 1870; and from the Library Exhibits, Magna Carta.

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