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Yellowstone National Park: Six Early Pieces

Read by David Wales


Various


Lost in the wilderness of The Yellowstone for over a month, nearly dying of starvation and wild animal attack, despairing of ever finding hi…

California History -- Two Pieces

Read by David Wales


Various


Alfred Louis Kroeber (1876-1960) was an American cultural anthropologist who founded the anthropology department at the University of Calif…

Commentary on the Epistle to the Colossians

Read by David Ronald


John Calvin


Accordingly, not long after this Epistle was written, three Churches of great renown perished by a mournful as well as horrible occurrence—a…

The Hound of the Baskervilles (version 4)

Read by David Clarke


Sir Arthur Conan Doyle


The Hound of the Baskervilles is the third of the four crime novels written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle featuring the detective Sherlock Holme…

Johann Sebastian Bach

Read by David Wales


Herbert Francis Peyser


Compared with the unimaginable richness of his inner life as the overpowering volume and splendor of his works reveal it, Bach’s day-to-day …

Three Days On The Ohio River

Read by David Wales


William A Alcott and William A. Alcott


This 1854 narration of a trip upon the Ohio River in a steamboat from Cincinnati to Pittsburg gives a picture of travel in a different time…

Collaboration

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Henry James


It is Paris sometime after the Franco-Prussian War (1870--Germany won--the French Second Republic collapsed--France embittered). A French po…

Causes Of The American Civil War: Secession Statements Of Five Confederate Stat…

Read by David Wales


Various


Some of the states who rebelled against the Federal Government in the American Civil War issued statements by nascent governing bodies expla…

04. The retreat of mortality - 20th and 21st century trends

In Demographic Trends and Problems of the Modern World

Read by David Coleman


David Coleman


University of Oxford Podcasts

Blackfeet Tales of Glacier National Park

Read by David Wales


James W. Schultz


James Willard Schultz, or Apikuni, (1859 – 1947) was a noted author, explorer, Glacier National Park guide, fur trader and historian of the …

Theodore Winthrop: A Civil War Narrative Aborted by Death

Read by David Wales


Theodore Winthrop


Theodore Winthrop (1828 – 1861) was a charismatic writer, lawyer, and world traveler. In the New York Seventh Regiment, he was one of the fi…

The Old Ladies

Read by David Wales


Hugh Walpole


“Quite a number of years ago there was an old rickety building on the rock above Seatown in Polchester, and it was one of a number in an old…

Night Operations For Infantry - Compiled For The Use Of Company Officers (1916)

Read by David Wales


Charles Tyrwhitt Dawkins


"It must be remembered that many of our men up to the time of their enlistment have passed their lives entirely in large towns, and hav…

Benjamin Britten: Source Stories of Twelve Operas

Read by David Wales


Various


Britten's operas are firmly established in the international repertoire: according to Operabase, they are performed worldwide more than thos…

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (version 4)

Read by David Clarke


Sir Arthur Conan Doyle


The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes is a collection of 12 short stories that were originally illustrated by Sidney Paget. These are the first…

The Long, Long Trail

Read by David Wales


Max Brand


A willful flirtatious girl; a morose family; a dark, mysterious, and (to some) alluring man; lots of horses, guns, honor, love, courage, and…

Rejected Of Men; A Story Of Today

Read by David Wales


Howard Pyle


This is a setting of the story of Jesus as if it had occurred during early twentieth century America. The narrator's point of view is that o…

Christmas Tales Of Flanders

Read by David Wales


Andre De Ridder


“The Christmas Tales Of Flanders presented in this volume are popular fables and legends current in Flanders and Brabant, which have for cen…

The Pentecost of Calamity

Read by David Wales


Owen Wister


Nonfiction. Appalled by the savagery of World War I, Owen Wister in 1915 published an attempt to move the United States out of neutrality in…

The Metamorphosis

Read by David Barnes


Franz Kafka


The Metamorphosis (in German, Die Verwandlung, "The Transformation") is a novella by Franz Kafka, first published in 1915, and arg…

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