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Going South with the Warblers

In Florida Trails

Read by Mike W


Winthrop Packard


American naturalist, Winthrop Packard, has given us such accounts as Wild Pastures, Wood Wanderings, and White Mountain Trails now he takes …

The Choice and Care of Clubs

In The Complete Golfer

Read by Mike W


Harry Vardon


Here is the complete book about golf, as played in the early 1900s. The author was a successful competitive golfer, winning The Open Champio…

Chapter II, A Preliminary Interpretation, Pt. 1

In Religion Without Revelation

Read by Mike W


Julian S. Huxley


“There are many well-intentioned people to-day who will tell you that the conflict between science and religion is over. It is not so….The w…

Conversation 2 : Crime and its punishment

In Gravenhurst, or Thoughts on Good and Evil

Read by Mike W


William Henry Smith


In which an English country gentlemen records his and his friends' conversational observations on misery and happiness, leaning ultimately o…

Roger Takes Up the Cudgels

In The Mystery at Lovers' Cave

Read by Mike W


Anthony Berkeley


Roger and his cousin Anthony are ready to head out on vacation, when a phone call from Scotland Yard sends the duo scuttling down to Hampshi…

The Late Rector of Hipley

In The Three Taps: A Detective Story Without a Moral

Read by Mike W


Ronald Knox


If it was murder, how did the murderer get through a door and leave it locked on the inside? If suicide, how did the dead man turn off the g…

Reporting Conflict and Peace. OxPeace 2011

In Building Peace

Read by Mike Wooldridge


Various


University of Oxford Podcasts

Lullaby Baby

In Puss in Boots, Jr., and the Good Gray Horse

Read by Mike West


David Cory


David Cory is the author of more than 40 childrens books. This is one in his series of Puss in Boots, Jr. The roots of the legend of Puss in…

Outfit

In The Art of Travel

Read by Mike Worboys


Sir Francis Galton


The Art of Travel is a handbook of practical advice for the adventure seeking Victorian. We hear how to organize all steps of a voyage, from…

Chapter 15

In The Spy

Read by Mike Wilson


cooper_jf and James Fenimore Cooper


James Fenimore Cooper's second novel, The Spy (1821), is based on Sir Walter Scott's Waverly series, and tells an adventure tale about the A…