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A Voyage Towards the South Pole and Round the World Volume 1

Read by David Cole


James Cook


Having, on his first voyage, discovered Australia, Cook still had to contend with those who maintained that the Terra Australians Incognita …

The First Voyage of James Cook Volume 1

Read by David Cole


James Cook


In May 1768, the Admiralty commissioned the 39-year old Cook to command a scientific voyage to the Pacific Ocean to observe and record the 1…

A Voyage Towards the South Pole and Round the World Volume 2

Read by David Cole


James Cook


Having disproved the myth of Terra Australis Incognita (The unknown Southern Continent), Cook returns to New Zealand via the Friendly Island…

The First Voyage of James Cook Volume 2

Read by David Cole


James Cook


Following his discovery and circumnavigation of New Zealand recorded in Volume 1, Cook sailed westwards to Australia, whose east coast was a…

Demographic Trends and Problems of the Modern World

Read by David Coleman


David Coleman


University of Oxford Podcasts

14 - Conversations in Prison

In Resurrection, Book 3

Read by David Cole


Leo Tolstoy, translated by Louise Maude and Leo Tolstoy


Resurrection is the last of Tolstoy's major fiction works published in his lifetime. Tolstoy intended the novel as an exposition of injustic…

Book 6, Chapter 1

In Anna Karenina, Book 6

Read by David Cole


Leo Tolstoy


Anna Karenina tells of the doomed love affair between the sensuous and rebellious Anna and the dashing officer, Count Vronsky. Tragedy unfol…