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Foreword and Preface

In Our Vanishing Wild Life

Read by Laura Caldwell

William T. Hornaday

We are weary of witnessing the greed, selfishness and cruelty of "civilized" man toward the wild creatures of the earth. We are si…

54 - Fasciae Around the Ankle

In Anatomy of the Human Body, Part 2 (Gray's Anatomy)

Read by Laura Caldwell

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…

The Little Green Frog

In The Yellow Fairy Book

Read by Laura Caldwell

Andrew Lang

"Andrew Lang's Fairy Books or Andrew Lang's "Coloured" Fairy Books are a twelve-book series of fairy tale collections. Althou…

Miss Thorne and Not Miss Thorne

In Elusive Isabel

Read by Laura Caldwell

Jacques Futrelle

Elusive Isabel is a novel by Jacques Futrelle (April 9, 1875 - April 15, 1912) first published in 1909. Set in Washington, D.C., it is a spy…

Preface

In Famous Men of Modern Times

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John H. Haaren and A. B. Poland and John Henry Haaren

Famous Men of Modern Times is a series of biographical sketches written for the purpose of making the study of history lively and interestin…

Preface and Chronology

In John James Audubon

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John Burroughs

Audubon's life naturally divides itself into three periods: his youth, which was on the whole a gay and happy one, and which lasted till the…

Vol I Ch 2: Plan and Preparations, pt 1

In The South Pole; an account of the Norwegian Antarctic expedition in the Fram, 1…

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Roald Amundsen

In contrast to Scott's South Pole expedition, Amundsen's expedition benefited from good equipment, appropriate clothing, and a fundamentally…

Chapter XXXVI

In A Short Life of Abraham Lincoln

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John G. Nicolay and John George Nicolay

John G. Nicolay was Abraham Lincoln’s private White House secretary. With assistant secretary, John Hay, he wrote the two volume definitive …

Queen Bertha

In Great Englishwomen

Read by Laura Caldwell

M. B. Synge

Great Englishwomen is a collection of biographies of some of the greatest women in England's history. Women who were leaders of their countr…

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