Nature
Ten Common Trees
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Susan Stokes
These are short sketches of ten common trees found in North America -- Black Willow, American Elm, Apple Tree, Horse-Chestnut, Birch, White …
The Railway Train
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Emily Dickinson
LibriVox volunteers bring you 16 recordings of The Railway Train by Emily Dickinson. This was the Weekly Poetry project for May 28, 2011.Alt…
The Old Man and the Ass
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Jean de la Fontaine
LibriVox volunteers bring you 8 recordings of The Old Man and the Ass by Jean de La Fontaine. (There was no translator acknowledged in the t…
The Hurricane Hunters
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Ivan Ray Tannehill
This 1955 book by an acknowledged authority is an absorbing account of meteorology before the advent of weather satellites. “This is the li…
Bee Hunting
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John Ready Lockard
Many books on sports of various kinds have been written, but outside of an occasional article in periodicals devoted to bee literature, but …
The Consolation
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Anne Brontë
LibriVox volunteers bring you 11 recordings of The Consolation by Anne Brontë. This was the Weekly Poetry project for March 14th, 2010.
Little Tales of the Desert
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Ethel Twycross Foster
A six year-old girl named Mary spends Christmas vacation with her parents in the Arizona desert of 1901 or thereabouts. ( Summary by Bellona…
Our National Parks
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John Muir
This book is a collection of sketches first published in the Atlantic Monthly magazine and gathered into book form in 1901. The focus here i…
Growing Old
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Matthew Arnold
LibriVox volunteers bring you 17 recordings of Growing Old by Matthew Arnold. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for April 17, 2011.Mat…
The Demon of the Gibbet
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Fitz-James O'Brien
LibriVox volunteers bring you 12 recordings of The Demon of the Gibbet by Fitz-James O'Brien. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for Fe…
Safe in their Alabaster Chambers
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Emily Dickinson
LibriVox volunteers bring you 18 recordings of Safe in their Alabaster Chambers by Emily Dickinson. This was the Weekly Poetry project for M…
Spiders
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Cecil Warburton
The mental capacity of spiders; web architecture; spiders that live under water, even though they need air to breath; spiders that mimic ant…
Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Years 1799-1804, Vol.3
Read by Gail Timmerman Vaughan
Aimé Bonpland, Alexander von Humboldt and Alexander Von Humboldt
Volume 3, the final volume of the “Personal Narrative”, records the travels of Alexander von Humboldt and the botanist Aimé Bonpland …
Travels in New Zealand with contributions to the geography, geology, botany, and natural history of that country, Vol. I
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Ernst Dieffenbach
“Let the reader imagine a deep lake of a blue colour, surrounded by verdant hills; in the lake several islets, some showing the bare rock, o…
Recordings on MP3 players and other portable devices 'Written in March' (Microp…
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William Wordsworth
This is a project which will allow us to compare recording quality of different mp3 players and portable recording devices. Each reader has …
The Spell of the Yukon
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Robert W. Service
LibriVox volunteers bring you 13 recordings of The Spell of the Yukon by Robert W. Service. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for Dece…
Excursions
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Henry David Thoreau
Excursions is an 1863 anthology of several essays by American transcendentalist Henry David Thoreau. The anthology contains an introduction …
The Grand Cañon of the Colorado
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John Muir
Nothing is ordinary in the world of John Muir, naturalist and author known as the Father of the US National Parks. In this short work, writ…
Dying Speech of an Old Philosopher
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Walter Savage Landor
LibriVox volunteers bring you 19 recordings of Dying Speech of an Old Philosopher by Walter Savage Landor. This was the Weekly Poetry projec…
Micrographia
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Robert Hooke
Published in 1665, this is the first publication of the Royal Society and considered to be the first scientific best-seller. As opposed to t…