Exploration
By Desert Ways to Baghdad
Read by PaulW
Louisa Jebb Wilkins
Every age witnesses the birth of some great soul. Sometimes events bring these people to the attention of the world. More often than not, th…
The Northward Course of Empire
Read by Leon Harvey
Vilhjalmur Stefansson
The Northward Course of Empire was written to promote the idea of a new wave of civil expansion into the Arctic Circle, a region generally c…
The Third Voyage of James Cook, Volume 2
Read by David Cole
James Cook
Only months after his return from his mammoth Second Voyage, the Admiralty ordered Cook back to the Pacific, ostensibly to return Omai, a yo…
Farthest North
Read by mleigh
Charles Lanman
Covers the life of Lieutenant James Booth Lockwood with emphasis on his attempt to reach "Farthest North" as part of the Greely Ex…
A Rival of the Yosemite – The Cañon of the south fork of King’s River, Californ…
Read by Michele Fry
John Muir
This article, a walking tour of the Cañon including many charcoal illustrations, was published in the Century Illlustrated Monthly Ma…
Collections of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin Vol 2
Read by Ted Lienhart
Lyman Copeland Draper
A 1903 reprint of a volume published in 1856, edited by Lyman Draper. Contents recorded include: three memoirs of early 19th century Wiscons…
Lapérouse
Read by Barbara Baker
Ernest Scott
Biography of the eighteenth century French navigator Lapérouse. - Summary by Barbara Baker
Collections of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin Vol 1
Read by Ted Lienhart
Lyman Copeland Draper
The Wisconsin Historical Society was founded in 1846, even before Wisconsin achieved U.S. statehood. The Secretary, Lyman Draper, began in …