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Bushido: The Soul of Japan

by Inazō Nitobe Read by Availle 4.6
Bushido: The Soul of Japan written by Inazo Nitobe was one of the first books on samurai ethics that was originally written in English for a…

Unbeaten Tracks in Japan

by Isabella L. Bird Read by Availle 4.5
Isabella Lucy Bird was a 19th century English traveller, writer, and natural historian. She was a sickly child, however, while she was trave…

Noli Me Tangere

by José Rizal Read by Availle 4.9
Noli Me Tangere (Latin for Touch Me Not) is a novel by the National Hero of the Philippines, Dr. José Rizal. It was originally writte…

Among the Tibetans

by Isabella L. Bird Read by Availle 4.6
Isabella L. Bird was an English traveller, writer and natural historian. She was travelling in the Far East alone at a time when such endeav…

The Chemical History of A Candle

by Michael Faraday Read by Availle 4.9
The Chemical History of a Candle is a series of 6 lectures on chemistry presented to a juvenile audience in 1848. Taught by Michael Faraday …

Radioactive Substances

by Marie Curie Read by Availle 4.9
Marie Curie, born in Warsaw in 1867, was a Polish-French physicist and chemist famous for her work on radioactivity. She was a pioneer in th…

The Tosa Diary

by No Tsurayuki Ki Read by Availle 4.6
Ki no Tsurayuki was a Japanese waka poet of the Heian period. In 905, he was one of the poets ordered to compile the "Kokinshu - Collec…

The Fourth Dimension Simply Explained

by Henry Parker Manning Read by Availle 4.5
In January 1909 a friend of the Scientific American paid the sum of 500$ which was to be awarded as a prize for the best popular explanation…

The Early History of the Airplane

by Orville Wright Read by Availle 4.5
The Brothers Orville and Wilbur Wright made the first controlled, powered and sustained heavier-than-air flight, on 17th December 1903. They…

The Einstein Theory of Relativity

by Hendrik A. Lorentz Read by Availle 4.4
When Albert Einstein published his first paper on relativity theory, it caused a stir in the physicists' community. When more and more evide…

Madame Butterfly

by John Luther Long Read by Availle 4.8
Madame Butterfly is the story of the young Japanese girl Cho-Cho San, who marries a flighty American naval officer, and is thenceforth outca…

Korea and Her Neighbors

by Isabella L. Bird Read by Availle 4.4
In this book, Isabella L. Bird, who had been elected a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society only 2 years prior, describes her travels th…

The Tomb of Tut-Ankh-Amen

by Howard Carter and Arthur C. Mace Read by Availle 4.8
On 26 November 1922, after eight years of work in the Valley of the Kings, archeologist Howard Carter discovered the tomb of Tut-Ankh-Amen, …

Botchan

by Sōseki Natsume Read by Availle 4.4
Botchan is the story of a young math teacher from Tokyo whose first assignment takes him to a middle school in the country side. His arrival…

Experiments in Plant Hybridisation

by Gregor Mendel Read by Availle 4.6
Gregor Mendel was an Augustinian monk in the St. Thomas monastery in Brno. His seminal paper "Experiments in Plant Hybridization" …

Paulownia

by Ōgai Mori Read by Availle 4.6
Paulownia is a captivating collection of seven short stories by three prominent Japanese authors from the late 19th and early 20th centuries…

Lot

by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Read by Availle 4.2
Abercrombie Smith, Edward Bellingham and William Monkhouse Lee are three students at Oxford University, sharing adjacent lodgings. When peop…

Treatise on Light

by Christiaan Huygens Read by Availle 4.7
Treatise on Light was published in 1690 and is probably the largest scientific volume on light published before Newton's Opticks. The book e…

The Rider on the White Horse

by Theodor Storm Read by Availle 4.6
Hauke Haien, a young man of 24 years, has just beome dikemaster in Northern Frisia. Against the resistance of many of the townfolk, he has a…

Nami-ko

by Kenjiro Tokutomi Read by Availle 4.4
Nami-ko, a young woman of a noble Japanese family, has recently married the naval officer Takeo, the only heir of a friend of her father's. …

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