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A Captivity of Nearly Three Years Among the Savages of Nootka Sound
Read by Sue Anderson
John R. Jewitt
John Jewitt (1783-1821), a blacksmith by trade, spent the years 1803-1806 as a slave among the Nuu-chah-nulth people of Nootka Sound, off t…
Spiders
Read by Sue Anderson
Cecil Warburton
The mental capacity of spiders; web architecture; spiders that live under water, even though they need air to breath; spiders that mimic ant…
Migration of Birds
Read by Sue Anderson
U.S. Fish And Wildlife Service and U. S. Fish And Wildlife Service
Snow Geese which left James Bay, Canada, arrived at the Louisiana Gulf coast "60 hours later after a continuous flight of over 1,700 mi…
Our Search for a Wilderness, An Account of Two Ornithological Expeditions to Ve…
Read by Sue Anderson
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…
Travels to Oaxaca
Read by Sue Anderson
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 …