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“The Feast of the Old Seal’s Head”

In The Young Ice Whalers

Read by Matthew Westra

Winthrop Packard

Noted American naturalist, Winthrop Packard, has given such enchanting nature books as Wildwood Ways, White Mountain Trails, and Woodland W…

Great Storm of March 11 to 14, 1888, The

In The National Geographic Magazine Vol. 01 No. 1

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A. W. Greeley (1844-1935) and National Geographic Society

National Geographic Magazine Volume 1 Number 1 published in 1889. Topics of articles are:Announcement by the National Geographic SocietyIntr…

Chapter I h: The Relation between Dreams and Mental Diseases

In The Interpretation of Dreams

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Sigmund Freud

A neat book on dream analysis by the founding father of psychoanalysis. This book is about the inner theater and the workings of the mind in…

Chapter V: What is to be Done?

In The Kallikak Family

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Henry H. Goddard

The Kallikak Family: A Study in the Heredity of Feeble-Mindedness, written by famous American psychologist and eugenicist Henry H. Goddard, …

Ch 1: The Start pt 3

In Through the Brazilian Wilderness

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Theodore Roosevelt

Roosevelt's popular book Through the Brazilian Wilderness describes his expedition into the Brazilian jungle in 1913 as a member of the Roos…

A Plea for Captain John Brown

In Short Nonfiction Collection Vol. 009

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Henry David Thoreau

A collection of fifteen short nonfiction works in the public domain. The essays, speeches, news items and reports included in these collecti…

04 - How to hypnotize

In Complete Hypnotism, Mesmerism, Mind-Reading and Spiritualism

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A. Alpheus

Written in 1903, just sixty years after the word 'hypnotism' was coined, this book explores the contemporary understanding of the nature, us…

The Country of the Blind

In Short Story Collection Vol. 021

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H. G. Wells

LibriVox’s Short Story Collection Vol.021: A collection of 10 short works of fiction in the public domain read by a variety of Librivox memb…

28 - Chapter XII - Devout Observances, Part One

In The Theory of the Leisure Class

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Thorstein Veblen

Originally published by the Norwegian-American economist Thorstein Veblen while he was a professor at the University of Chicago in 1898, the…