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I recently posted the sixteen books that made Robert B. Down’s list of Books That Changed The World. Equally as intriguing are books that he did not select but which he refers to as “also-rans.”
- De Corporis Humani Fabrica
, by Andreas Versalius
- Leibnitz’s writings in mathematics and physics
- The Frontier in American History
- The Communist Manifesto
- Walden
- The Life of Washington, by Parson Mason Locke Weems
- Two Years Before the Mast
- The Jungle
- Boston Cooking-School Cook Book
, by Fannie Farmer
- Etiquette
- Sexual Behavior in the Human Male and Female
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I agree with the Two Years Before Mast . Here is another interesting article I read recently about Richard Henry Dana: http://www.books.leatherboundtreasure.com/2009/05/richard-henry-dana.html