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A Book of Discovery

Read by Kristine Bekere

M. B. Synge

Telling the history of geographical discoveries, "Book of Discovery" is a record of splendid endurance, of hardships bravely borne…

The Tale of Three Lions

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H. Rider Haggard

Taking place in the heart of Africa, “The Tale of Three Lions” is one more thrilling adventure from the eventful life of old hunter Quaterma…

A Short History of the World

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H. G. Wells

A Short History of the World is a non-fictional historic work by English author H. G. Wells, largely inspired by Wells's earlier 1919 work T…

Heroes of the Middle Ages

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Eva March Tappan

"The object of this book is to bring together stories of the most important movements in the history of Europe during the Middle Ages, …

Lāčplēsis

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Andrejs Pumpurs

Lāčplēsis is an epic poem by Andrejs Pumpurs, a Latvian poet, who wrote it between 1872-1887 based on local legends. Lāčplēsis is regarded a…

North-Pole Voyages

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Zachariah Atwell Mudge

For more than three hundred years an intense desire has been felt by explorers to discover and reveal to the world the secrets of the immed…

The United States Part II: Stories of the Spanish adventurers: Historical note

In The World’s Story Volume XII: The United States

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Eva March Tappan

This is the twelfth volume of the 15-volume series of The World’s Story: a history of the World in story, song and art, edited by Eva March …

Uruj Barbarossa 1504-1515

In The Story of the Barbary Corsairs (Version 2)

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Stanley Lane-Poole and J. D. Jerrold Kelley

The Barbary pirates, sometimes called Barbary corsairs or Ottoman corsairs, were Ottoman and Berber pirates and privateers who operated from…

April 21 St. Anselm, Archbishop

In Little Pictorial Lives of the Saints, Volume 2 (April-June)

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John Gilmary Shea

Little Pictorial Lives of the Saints : with reflections for every day in the year : compiled from "Butler's Lives" and other appro…