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The Desert, Further Studies in Natural Appearances

Read by Sue Anderson


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. "…

Dallam's Travels with an Organ to the Grand Signieur, 1599-1600

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Thomas Dallam


Queen Elizabeth the First of England, the Grand Turk at Constantinople, and an organ builder named Thomas Dallam—quite a trio. In 1599, E…

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 …

An American in the Making, the Life Story of an Immigrant

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Marcus Eli Ravage


“The sweat-shop was for me the cradle of liberty. . . It was my first university.” Attending lectures and the New York theatre at night; by …

The Soul of an Immigrant

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Constantine Panunzio


Constantine Panunzio (1884-1964) begins his autobiography by describing his childhood in Molfetta, Italy. At age 13, he left home as a sailo…

My Days and Dreams

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Edward Carpenter


Hard to imagine now, but there have been times and places where just wearing sandals could get you labeled as being in rebellion against est…

Spiders

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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…

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…

Migration of Birds

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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…

Towards Democracy

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Edward Carpenter


“Civilization sinks and swims, but the old facts remain—the sun smiles, knowing well its strength.” Edward Carpenter (1844-1929) wrote his …

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…

A Wodehouse Miscellany

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P. G. Wodehouse


Sir Pelham Grenville Wodehouse was an English comic writer who enjoyed enormous popular success for more than seventy years. Best known toda…

Empire

Read by Kevin Green


Clifford D. Simak


In a future time, the solar system is powered by one energy source, controlled by one huge organisation, which has plans to use this control…

Gorgias

Read by Kevin Johnson


Plato


This dialogue brings Socrates face to face with the famous sophist Gorgias and his followers. It is a work likely completed around the time …

Critias

Read by Kevin Johnson


Plato


This is an incomplete dialogue from the late period of Plato's life. Plato most likely created it after Republic and it contains the famous …

The Talleyrand Maxim

Read by Kevin Green


J. S. Fletcher


John Mallathorpe, a wealthy Yorkshire industrialist and land owner dies in an accident, apparently without making a will. His estate goes t…

The Emperor's Candlesticks

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Baroness Emma Orczy


When a group of Russian anarchists kidnap a Russian prince in Vienna there are repercussions. On learning that the Cardinal d'Orsay has agre…

Stories of Old Greece and Rome

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Emilie Kip Baker


The Stories of Old Greece and Rome is an easy to read summary of all of the famous and not so famous Greek and Roman mythological stories. A…

The Shrieking Pit

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Arthur J. Rees


The Shrieking Pit is one of Arthur Rees's earlier works, and is a good old fashioned murder mystery story. Grant Colwyn, a private detective…

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