Used Book Haul: Part One! - Nonfiction, Poetry, and Classics

[Music] hi Souls welcome to my channel Raab is going to die so I have a bunch of books that we thrifted you probably saw the stories already of us going to a comic store and a used bookstore one of our favorites good books in the woods so myself my husband and his brother all are Avid readers all of the books behind me which you don't see the entire we have a whole wall of shelves they're all Collective of all three of our interests so I want to show you everyone's haul not just mine that we got

from the used bookstore and the comic shop I need to do this in two parts because there is literally 30 plus books sitting beside me and I feel like that's going to be too long so this time I'm going to go through the non-fiction the poetry and the classics and then the second one next week will be all the rest of the fiction so let's go ahead and get started we'll go through my husband's and then his brothers and then move on from there so this is the path between the Seas by David molo m i i

don't Mulla I don't know how to pronounce his last name I'm sorry but this is the creation of the Panama Canal 1870 1914 David is one of my husband's favorite historians he gets a lot of books by the this author to read all the history books so of course when he saw this he immediately had to pick it up to add to his David collection I'm not going to say his last name I butcher it if you are interested in a lot of history I'm sure my husband would recommend looking at David according to this he'

s done 1776 John Adams Truman Brave companions morning's on Horseback that's the one that my husband he's he's wanting me to read that one mornings on Horseback he's really big into Theodore Roosevelt he literally has a special Shelf full of Theodore Roosevelt books and everything actually Mark Twain is up there as well cuz he found a bunch of old Mark Twain books maybe I should do that sometime take you through and explore all of our shells but especially that one cuz it's got a lot of special

books and stuff on it but anyways so pretty SE self-explanatory what this is this is only 617 Pages because the print is pretty pretty big I don't consider this big I consider this I mean it's still big but I still consider this pretty average especially for a history book it's not like a huge thousand plus page book like it and then my husband also picked up nothing like it in the world by Steven E Ambrose and this is The Men Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad 1863 1869 my husband and his

brother both are really big into history when it comes to railroads and my brother-in-law especially is really big into Maritime stuff which you'll see once I get through his they actually both picked up a book about the Transcontinental Railroad and this is the one that my husband got I think he really likes the cover of this one it's a really nice cover he has not read anything else by Ambrose this is his first one so it'll be interesting to see if he likes the way that this author writes this

is cool it's got the transcontinental map on the front and back I do believe yep it also has old photos and stuff in the center there's a bunch of pages photo pages in the center of this so yeah that that'll be interesting to read about a lot of these books I myself am fascinated in cuz I don't know a whole lot I briefly know history but when it came to history in school I literally just school I literally just slept in general in every class I just I got bored but now that I'm older I do want

to learn more about history and stuff so I'm glad that my husband and my brother-in-law are both history Buffs that means I have a whole literally two shelves full of history books that I can pick up if I want to read one and then the last thing that my husband got is night's Cross by David Frasier and this is a life of field Marshall ER eron raml Ain Arwin I can't pronounce his name raml is the one who went against Hitler in the ends when he saw that the Allied Forces were winning I do believe

if I remember my history correctly raml is not to David Frasier a Flawless hero his failings as well as his genius are recorded here but he had that instinct for battle and Leadership which sets him apart from his contemporaries and places him among the Great commanders really fascinating to read about certain people in varying sides of war and stuff so I might also read this if Again David Frasier is not one an author that my husband has ever read anything by so this is going to be another expe

riment on whether or not he likes the way that this author writes but if he does and he recommends it then maybe I will pick it up at some point and learn more about people in history because I need to I I I feel lost when they talk about history and stuff so that was all three of the non-fictions that my husband picked up and then I have four from my brother-in-law starting with 2 years before the Mast by RH Donna Jr so we already have two years before the mask on our shelves but it's like a ne

wer paperback and he saw this the Harvard Classics at the thrift store and this is a 19 9 I do believe yeah copyright 1909 and it's like really like it's a really good condition Edition so this the reason why he picked it up even though we have the paperback version just to have so we had on our shelves I like older books and the fact that this is so nicely preserved and stuff it would be nice to put on our shelves two years before the mask for anyone who's who doesn't know I actually have notes

now it is a memoir first published in 1840 written after a 2-year Voyage from Boston to California on a merchant ship there's also a film adaptation under the same name so like I said my brother-in-law is very big into Maritime stuff so 2 years before the Mast and then we have the USS Essex and the birth of the American Navy so another about a ship book for my brother-in-law uh the USS essic a 32 gun free frot frate frigate I think it's frot built in 1799 by the merchants of Salem was known aro

und the world for her speed and graceful lines achieving a brilliant series of dramatic firsts for the young American Navy so this is all about USS Essex which again I don't know a whole lot about myself so it'll be interesting to see if this is a good book for me to read if the history book is too dry for me I'm not going to be able to read it I think my brother brother-in-law doesn't mind dry history books so it's probably not going to be one I'm going to be able to read but we'll see we'll se

e what he thinks and then following the maritime history we have the maritime history of Massachusetts 1783 through 1860 by Samuel Elliot Morrison the magic era when America first became a world power and Salem boys were more at home in Canton than in New York and this is a century Edition series with the like what do you call this I don't know what material this is I don't know if it's like a cloth material kind of feels like a cloth material but yeah a really cool Edition and he's also into ra

ilroads so he also picked up a book about the Transcontinental Railroad Empire Express building the first Transcontinental Railroad by David Howard Bane this is a big book and it's heavy told from the point point of views of its participants Empire expresses uniquely American cast includes self-made entrepreneurs such as the union pacifics Thomas Durant or the central pacifics CIS Huntington who built railroad Empires across the West while spinning webs of influence all over Washington DC Engine

ers such as Theodore Judah who discovered a brout across the 7,000 foot high California Sierra in the footsteps of the tragic Donner party and grinfield Dodge who forged a path across the Rockies while being pursued by an Indian war party tribal leaders such as spotted tail and redcloud who alternated between conciliation and Defiance of the soldiers and lo locomotives heralded the onrush of farmers ranchers Prospectors and towns folk among more than 25,000 nameless laborers whose backbreaking w

ork made the railroad possible especially the Irish most fresh off the Civil War battlefields and the Chinese era defining figures such as President Lincoln generals Grant Sherman and Sheridan and Mark Twain and Walt Whitman so there's a lot of As Told Through The Eyes of in this it looks like and it's a big it's a big book 711 pages that was all the non-fiction I didn't pick up any non-fiction I was too focused in the classics and the fiction sections to dig into non-fiction I have to be really

in the mood for me to read non-fiction and I've already got several non-fiction books on my TBR shelf I don't need to add more moving on to poetry we only have one poetry book and it is the collected poems of Robert service this is a favorite of my husband's so this is something my husband found he randomly just stumbled across this and apparently this is hard to find like a full collection of Robert service's poems I know he has another smaller book of Yukon something I think it's on here yeah

the spell of the Yukon and other verses he has the smaller version of those but this one literally has that one collected poems of Robert servis more collected verse of Robert service and later collected verse of Robert service so it has all of them in here I think he was looking for it and is like either hard to find or really expensive if he does find it so the fact that he stumbled across this he wasn't even looking for it good books in the woods is literally just mazes and mazes upon booksh

elves literally mazes I lo got lost trying to find my husband in the non-fiction section there is a ton of non-fiction books there so while he was going through he looked over and he saw this a little hilarious story so he was walking back with this with his prize and I think he read somewhere that this was a like a d commissioned or old library book or something I think he read somewhere I don't even see it anymore whatever he saw but he's like I wonder what library this is from and then he ope

ned the back and it is from where he used to live from the college where he used to work at so the fact that it somehow ended up in a used bookstore in Houston to end up in his hands full circle from the old College he used to work at at is crazy so now we have this for him I've actually not read any of Robert service's poems so I'm interested in reading it myself cuz my husband is really big into Robert service and I like learning about things that he's interested in so that's all the poetry bo

oks that we found I didn't really dig into the poetry books or else I'd probably have more to show there but what I did dig into and the only one who dug into is the classics my foot is falling asleep they have like a rotating bookshelf in the used bookstore that literally has all their Classics and I just sat there and picked it apart and I found a bunch of goodies including Rebecca by Daphne D mar mar Mario I don't know how to say the name I constantly being told I should read this it's got a

Gothic setting and everything I think it's like a tragic it's not like let me see let me read the back I'm sure people know what this is about but I I went in blind I said everyone wants me to read it so sure why not so let me read the back last night I dreamed I went to the manderlay again so the second Mrs Maxim dewinter remembered the chilly events that led her down the Turning drive past the beaches white and naked to the isolate gray stone mans on the winds Cornish Coast the husband she bar

ely knew the Young Bride arrived at this immense estate only to be inexorably drawn into the life of the first Mrs dewinter the beautiful Rebecca dead but never forgotten her suweet of rooms never touched her clothes ready to be worn her servant the Sinister Mrs Danvers still loyal and as an eerie prent presentiment of evil Titans around her Hearts the second Mrs dewinter began her search for the real fates of Rebecca for the secrets of manderlay sounds interesting actually so I'm excited to rea

d it also I read that really really awkwardly cuz there is a lot of big words that I know the meaning of but I can't say I have a mild speech problem so I kind of stumble over words they are correct in my head but I can't get them out so sorry if that was very awkwardly read but it sounds really interesting and also very tragic so we'll see if I like it and then the next one that I picked up is The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson I've reviewed the TV series and I had mentioned that I w

anted to pick up the book and read it I can't remember who commented this I'm sorry but someone commented on my review of the TV show that the book is actually way different so I'm curious to see how different and then I got The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Stories by Washington Irving I I like old paintings classic paintings like that I've actually never read Legend of Sleepy Hollow and I don't know anything else by Washington uring so I thought this would be an interesting collection to p

ick up and read both for Legend of Sleepy Hollow but also there's apparently the Spectre bridegroom the Devil and Tom Walker the wife West Minister Abby Mount Joy and adventure of the mysterious stranger and five other classics five other that weren't listed on here filled with satire Pathos and picturesque observations these remarkable stories are important foundations of the American L literary tradition I don't know if they're all going to be spooky like Legend of Sleepy Hollow but it'll be i

nteresting to read anyway so I've read in Indie author's detective story that he was really inspired by Doyle and po because PO is actually the creator of detective works and what joyle got inspired to write his detective Charlotte Holmes so that book actually inspired me where I want to actually read Sherlock Holmes I've never read Sherlock Holmes I've read the dup and pose I saw one book on the rotating shelf that was at least one of the shock cols but I wanted like a full collection cuz I kno

w there's like a lot of books and I turned around and on the old fireplace behind the classics this was sitting there The Illustrated Sherlock Holmes treasury so it has all of the Charlotte Holmes in this and the illustrations that were in the books so now I have this on the shelf and this excited all of us cuz all of us would like to read Sherlock Holmes obviously the dust cover is pretty messed up and the pages are really old and stuff I didn't even see what addition this is it doesn't not say

the year on it I don't know what Edition this is but it's definitely older yeah now I have it which is great so that was the first half of the book haul a whole ton of books to add to our shelves we literally don't have any room on our TBR shelves I do I have room so I can put my books on my TBR shelves but they don't so I just randomly stacked theirs somewhere for them to read eventually but tune in next Wednesday when I go through the second half all the fiction books that we picked up which

there is a ton of those to go through until then like comment subscribe bye Souls