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Austerity and Adversity

In Oriel College Chapel Services

Read by Justine Allain Chapman


Various


University of Oxford Podcasts

Africa, O Africa

Read by Louise Robinson Chapman


Louise Robinson Chapman


This is the story of Louise Robinson Chapman, a missionary in Africa. From 1920 until 1940 she ministered to the dark continent, coming to t…

Chapter V, Part 20

In The History of England, from the Accession of James II - (Volume 1, Chapter 05)

Read by Chris Chapman


Thomas Babington Macaulay


This chapter of Macaulay’s History of England is concerned, for a large part, with insurrection against James II and his manoeuverings to su…

Chapter 2 Winter Storms and Spring Floods

In The Yosemite

Read by Chris Chapman


John Muir


John Muir's adventure guide for the Yosemite Valley.

Useful Phrases: iconoclastic attitude - incipient fancy

In Fifteen Thousand Useful Phrases

Read by Chris Chapman


Grenville Kleiser


A Practical Handbook of Pertinent Expressions, Striking Similes, Literary, Commercial, Conversational, and Oratorical Terms, for the Embelli…

Chapter VI, Part 4

In The History of England, from the Accession of James II - (Volume 2, Chapter 06)

Read by Chris Chapman


Thomas Babington Macaulay


This chapter starts from about 1685. James is on the throne and, as ever, there are disputes between crown and Parliament. We see the Habeus…

A Wind-Storm in the Forests

In The Mountains of California

Read by Chris Chapman


John Muir


John Muir (1838–1914) was one of the first modern preservationists. His letters, essays, and books telling of his adventures in nature, and …

04 - Chapter 4

In Robert O'Hara Burke and the Australian Exploring Expedition of 1860

Read by Chris Chapman


Andrew Jackson


A non-fictional account of Burke and Wills's 1860 expedition to cross the Australian continent from south to north and then return. Containi…

Foreign Lands read by Chris Chapman

In Foreign Lands

Read by Chris Chapman


Robert Louis Stevenson


LibriVox volunteers bring you 17 different recordings of Foreign Lands by Robert Louis Stevenson. This was the weekly poetry project for the…

Beaconsville, Lent and Revivals

In Selected Interviews with Robert G. Ingersoll, Volume 1

Read by Chris Chapman


Robert G. Ingersoll


A controversial lecturer, brilliant lawyer, and arguably the most famous orator of the mid to late 1800's, Ingersoll railed against the absu…

Chapter I: Part 1

In The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Vol. I

Read by Chris Chapman


Edward Gibbon


The History of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, a major literary achievement of the 18th century published in six volumes, was writ…