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The Desert, Further Studies in Natural Appearances

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John Charles Van Dyke


The Desert by John Charles Van Dyke, published in 1901, is a lush, poetic description of the natural beauty of the American Southwest. "…

Rough Notes Taken During Some Rapid Journeys Across the Pampas and Among the An…

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Francis Bond Head


“Galloped on with no stopping, but merely to change horses until five o’clock in the evening—very tired indeed, but . . . saw fresh horses i…

Travels to Oaxaca

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Nicolas-Joseph Thiéry De Menonville and Nicolas-Joseph Thiéry de Menonville


Botanical Piracy! A French botanist plots to steal red dye cochineal insects from Spanish Mexico and transplant them and their cacti hosts …

Our Search for a Wilderness, An Account of Two Ornithological Expeditions to Ve…

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William Beebe and Blair Niles


In 1908-1909, Mary Blair Beebe and her husband, C. William Beebe made two private expeditions to Venezuela and British Guiana, exploring and…

The Deportation Cases of 1919-1920

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Constantine Panunzio


"The study here presented embodies the findings of an investigation into the recent [1919-1920] deportations of persons deemed to be un…

Cubist Art Will be Investigated (1913)

In Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 097

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Anonymous


"One does not care to walk over a rug or carpet that displays a scene in perspective, neither does one wish to gaze into a landscape wr…

Wasps Find an Alternative Use for an Artist's Paint Brushes

In Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 094

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William Hamilton Gibson


"Fine experience lies at one's own doorstep" writes Raymond S. Spears, suggesting that boating on the Mississippi River offers &qu…

Genetically Engineered Crops in the United States (Excerpt)

In Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 076

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US Dept of Agriculture & US Food Administration and United States Department of Agriculture


Twenty short nonfiction works chosen by the readers. "Our constitution is color-blind... the law regards man as man and takes no accoun…

Composition and Drawing from Photographs

In Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 072

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Arthur L. Guptill


Twenty short nonfiction works, individually chosen by the readers. "The ground rose and fell in successive furrows, like the ruffled wa…

Murdering English (1921)

In Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 101

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Anonymous


"Of all effects of weather, snow makes the greatest change in animal economy in the countryside, and weeks often pass before the old or…

Artists Look at Roads

In Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 093

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Richard F. Weingroff


"Flirting is more serious than talking nonsense and not so serious as making love" was journalist Eliza Lynn Linton's take on rela…

Saved by a Nose

In Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 099

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Edward Carpenter


"Instead of letting ourselves, at the thought of mealtime, fall into a state of chronic mental flutter that incapacitates us for any se…

Outdoor Sketching (Excerpt), 1914

In Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 103

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Francis Hopkinson Smith


"When money gives out, sense ensues." This pithy saying is from Yugoslav Proverbs, one of the twenty reader-chosen selections in v…

The Story of Broomcorn

In Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 098

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Arthur Martin


"The moment a man attempts to tell the truth as he not only thinks but feels it, what he says becomes charged with that man himself.&qu…

"Introduction of the Honey Bee to California," from Bee-Keeper's Directory, or…

In LibriVox 18th Anniversary Collection

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John S. Harbison


"LibriVox is a hope, an experiment, and a question: can the net harness a bunch of volunteers to bring books in the public domain to li…

Geometroid Caterpillars of Northeastern and Appalachian Forests, Introduction (…

In Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 102

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David L. Wagner


"It is difficult for the human mind to take a comprehensive view of a subject." This is how librarian Arthur Bostwick begins his e…

Roget's Thesaurus, Introduction, Excerpt (1853)

In Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 095

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Peter Mark Roget


"A legendary island in the Atlantic Ocean, first mentioned by Plato", is how the 11th edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica descr…

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