Nature

Birds in the Calendar

Read by Ruth Golding


Frederick G. Aflalo



Delightful sketches of British wild birds - a bird for every month of the year from the pheasant in January to the robin in December. This c…

Treatise on Light

Read by Availle


Christiaan Huygens



Treatise on Light was published in 1690 and is probably the largest scientific volume on light published before Newton's Opticks. The book e…

John Sherman and Dhoya

Read by David Wales


William Butler Yeats



In 1891, Yeats published "John Sherman", a novella, and "Dhoya", a Celtic mythologic story. Ganconagh, Yeats’s nom de pl…

The Higher Pantheism

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson



LibriVox volunteers bring you 13 recordings of The Higher Pantheism by Alfred, Lord Tennyson. This was the Weekly Poetry project for Septemb…

The Reaper And The Flowers

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow



LibriVox volunteers bring you 25 recordings of The Reaper And The Flowers by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. This was the Fortnightly Poetry pro…

Short Nonfiction Collection Vol. 006

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Various



A collection of fifteen short nonfiction works in the public domain. The essays, speeches and reports included in this collection were inde…

The Elements of Entomology

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William Ruschenberger



The Elements of Entomology is one of seven in a Series of First Books of Natural History Prepared for the Use of Schools and Colleges. It is…

The Adventures of a Nature Guide

Read by Sue Anderson


Enos A. Mills



Enos Mills (1870-1922 ), naturalist and conservationist, was instrumental in the creation of Rocky Mountain National Park. Like his mentor…

Longings for Home

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Walt Whitman



LibriVox volunteers bring you 13 recordings of Longings for Home by Walt Whitman. This was the Weekly Poetry project for August 26, 2012.Bor…

The Lore of the Honey-Bee

Read by Steve C


Tickner Edwardes



The sun shines — you know it has always shone, changeless as Time itself. With such a faith — unfounded and therefore incontestable — I cam…

The National Geographic Magazine Vol. 01 No. 4

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National Geographic Society



National Geographic Magazine Volume 1 Number 4 published in 1889. Topics of articles are:Irrigation in CaliforniaRound about AshevilleA Trip…

Far Away and Long Ago

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William Henry Hudson



William Henry Hudson was an author, naturalist and ornithologist. Hudson was born of U.S. parents living in the Quilmes Partido in Buenos Ai…

Tale of Brownie Beaver

Read by Betsie Bush


Arthur Scott Bailey



Arthur Scott Bailey was the author of more than forty children's books, centered all his plots in the animal, bird and insect worlds, weavin…

Short Nonfiction Collection Vol. 005

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Various



A collection of ten short nonfiction works in the public domain. The essays, speeches, news items and reports included in this collection we…

The Journey of Life

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William Cullen Bryant



LibriVox volunteers bring you 14 recordings of The Journey of Life by William Cullen Bryant. This was the Weekly Poetry project for December…

The San Francisco Calamity by Earthquake and Fire

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Charles Morris and Charles Mclean Andrews



The first half of this book describes the devastating earthquake that hit San Francisco in 1906, and the subsequent destruction caused by fi…

The Seven Follies of Science

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John Phin



The seven follies of science; a popular account of the most famous scientific impossibilities and the attempts which have been made to solve…

History of Farming in Ontario

Read by Esther


C. C. James



This is a paper on the history of farming in Ontario. It take the reader through the early settlement from 1783 to the modern period of 1888…

Thrilling Adventures By Land And Sea

Read by David Wales


James O. Brayman



There is in the adventures of the daring and heroic, something that interests all. There is a charm about them which, while it partakes of t…

The Tree-Dwellers

Read by J. M. Smallheer


Katharine Elizabeth Dopp



Katharine E. Dopp was well-known as a teacher and writer of children's textbooks at the turn of the 20th Century. She was among the first e…

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