Nature
Dying Speech of an Old Philosopher
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Walter Savage Landor
LibriVox volunteers bring you 19 recordings of Dying Speech of an Old Philosopher by Walter Savage Landor. This was the Weekly Poetry projec…
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…
The Grand Cañon of the Colorado
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John Muir
Nothing is ordinary in the world of John Muir, naturalist and author known as the Father of the US National Parks. In this short work, writ…
Micrographia
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Robert Hooke
Published in 1665, this is the first publication of the Royal Society and considered to be the first scientific best-seller. As opposed to t…
The Hillside Thaw
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Robert Frost
LibriVox volunteers bring you 10 recordings of The Hillside Thaw by Robert Frost. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for May 5th, 2013.
Excursions
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Henry David Thoreau
Excursions is an 1863 anthology of several essays by American transcendentalist Henry David Thoreau. The anthology contains an introduction …
The Widow's House
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Sarah Orne Jewett
LibriVox volunteers bring you 12 recordings of The Widows' House by Sarah Orne Jewett. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for November …
The Natural History Volume 5
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Pliny the Elder
Naturalis Historia (Latin for "Natural History") is an encyclopedia published circa AD 77-79 by Pliny the Elder. It is one of the …
La mer
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Jules Michelet
Un ouvrage très intéressant (en notre siècle de réflexion pour l'avenir de notre planète et de ses oc&eac…
Long Ago
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Christina Rossetti
LibriVox volunteers bring you 12 recordings of Long Ago by Christina G. Rossetti. This was the Weekly Poetry project for December 9, 2012.Ch…
Our Vanishing Wild Life
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William T. Hornaday
We are weary of witnessing the greed, selfishness and cruelty of "civilized" man toward the wild creatures of the earth. We are si…
Passionate Shepherd to His Love (version 2)
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Christopher Marlowe
LibriVox volunteers bring you 17 recordings of The Passionate Shepherd to His Love by Christopher Marlowe. This was the Fortnightly Poetry p…
The Wish
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Abraham Cowley
LibriVox volunteers bring you 13 recordings of The Wish by Abraham Cowley. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for February 24, 2013. Ab…
The Story of Scraggles
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George Wharton James
"I was only a little baby song-sparrow, and from the moment I came out of my shell everybody knew there was something the matter with m…
In New England Fields and Woods
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Rowland E. Robinson
Born in rural Vermont in 1833, and nearly unknown to today's readers, Rowland Evans Robinson was once one of Vermont's best-known writers. A…
Flowers and Ferns in their Haunts
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Mabel Osgood Wright
Pleasant non-fiction journey into the backwoods of the New England coastal countryside by the first president of the Connecticut Audubon Soc…
He Had His Dream
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Paul Laurence Dunbar
LibriVox volunteers bring you 18 recordings of He Had His Dream by Paul Laurence Dunbar. This was the Weekly Poetry project for July 14, 201…
I Saw in Louisiana a Live-Oak Growing
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Walt Whitman
LibriVox volunteers bring you 11 recordings of I Saw in Louisiana a Live-Oak Growing by Walt Whitman. This was the Weekly Poetry project for…
The School Book of Forestry
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Charles Lathrop Pack
Written by a third-generation timberman, this book discusses what forests are, their primary enemies, and their benefits to others. Additio…
A Florida Sketch-Book
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Bradford Torrey
This is a series of late-19th Century essays about Florida's flora & fauna written by a Massachusetts-based naturalist. (Summary by Bell…