Nature
Nature
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nature is a short essay by Ralph Waldo Emerson published anonymously in 1836. It is in this essay that the foundation of transcendentalism i…
Os Sertões
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Euclides Da Cunha
Os Sertões é um livro brasileiro, escrito por Euclides da Cunha e publicado em 1902. Trata da Guerra de Canudos (1896-1897), n…
The Burgess Animal Book for Children
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Thornton W. Burgess
Peter Rabbit goes to school, with Mother Nature as his teacher. In this zoology book for children, Thornton W. Burgess describes the mammals…
The Call of the Wild (Version 3)
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Jack London
Buck is living a happy life in California until he is sold to pay a gambling debt. Taken to the Klondike to become a sled dog, Buck must tou…
Anatomy of the Human Body, Part 1 (Gray's Anatomy)
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Henry Gray
Henry Gray's classic anatomy textbook was first published in 1858 and has been in continuous publication ever since, revised and expanded th…
Sidelights on Relativity
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Albert Einstein
Sidelights on Relativity contains ETHER AND THE THEORY OF RELATIVITY, an address delivered on May 5th, 1920, in the University of Leyden; an…
Selected Poems of Robert Frost
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Robert Frost
Robert Frost, who lived from March 26, 1874 to January 29, 1963, was a winner of 4 Pulitzer prizes and one of America’s best loved poets. Th…
The Burgess Bird Book for Children
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Thornton W. Burgess
The Burgess Bird Book for Children is a zoology book written in the form of a story featuring Peter Rabbit. Peter learns from his friend Je…
The Swiss Family Robinson (Version 2)
Read by Kara Shallenberg (1969-2023)
Johann David Wyss
First published in 1812, The Swiss Family Robinson may sometimes seem old-fashioned to modern readers, especially the family’s attitude towa…
My First Summer in the Sierra
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John Muir
The journal of nature-lover John Muir who spent the summer of 1869 walking California’s Sierra Nevada range. From French Bar to Mono Lake an…
Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog)
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Jerome K. Jerome
Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog), published in 1889, is a humorous account by Jerome K. Jerome of a boating holiday on the Th…
Just So Stories (version 2)
Read by Kara Shallenberg (1969-2023)
Rudyard Kipling
The stories, first published in 1902, are fantastic accounts of how various natural phenomena came about. The original editions of Just So S…
To The Lighthouse
Virginia Woolf
The Ramsey family, with house guests, visit the Isle of Skye at least twice. The plot is not at all the point though, as this is a book abou…
A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains
Read by Laura Caldwell
Isabella L. Bird
Isabella Bird began travelling while in her early twenties to help alleviate illness that had plagued her since childhood. She was a single …
Physics
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Aristotle
Physics (Greek: Φυσικὴ ἀκρόασις; Latin: Physica, or Physicae Auscultationes) discusses concepts including: substance, accident, the infinite…
Travels in Alaska
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John Muir
In 1879 John Muir went to Alaska for the first time. Its stupendous living glaciers aroused his unbounded interest, for they enabled him to …
The Adventures of Buster Bear
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Thornton W. Burgess
The Adventures of Buster Bear is another set of children’s stories by the conservationist, Thornton W. Burgess. Buster Bear has many adventu…
On Generation and Corruption
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Aristotle
On Generation and Corruption (Ancient Greek: Περὶ γενέσεως καὶ φθορᾶς, Latin: De Generatione et Corruptione, also known as On Coming to Be a…
The Book of Household Management
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Mrs. Isabella Beeton
"Mrs. Beeton's" is a guide to all aspects of running a household in Victorian Britain. Published in 1861, it was an immediate best…
Anatomy of the Human Body, Part 4 (Gray's Anatomy)
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Henry Gray
Henry Gray's classic anatomy textbook was first published in 1858 and has been in continuous publication ever since, revised and expanded th…