Nature
- Explorations in Nature and Travel
- Explorations in Nature and Science
- Nature's Poetic Voices
- Essays on Nature and Reflection
- Nature's Tales for Young Explorers
The Cruise of the Walrus on the Broads
"This is an account of my latest sailing adventures on board a clumsy small sea-boat, on the pleasant waterways of Broadland.I acquired…
A Christmas Miscellany
Seven chapters involving Christmas from different books. Plus part 8 which is twelve verses about Christmas and part 9 which is four Christm…
Our Vanishing Wild Life
Our Vanishing Wild Life is a passionate call to action from William T. Hornaday, a pioneering conservationist, who confronts the alarming de…
Idylls Of The Sea
In these little sketches [1899] of a few out of the innumerable multitude of ways in which the sea has spoken to me during my long acquainta…
Birds
Birds, Illustrated by Color Photography was a monthly publication of the Nature Study Publishing Company of Chicago. It includes short poems…
The Call of the Wildflower
A learned, and immensely pleasant, journey in search of wildflowers as told by the author. - Summary by KevinS
The Evolutionist at Large
These Essays originally appeared in the columns of the 'St. James's Gazette,' and I have to thank the courtesy of the Editor for kind permis…
Winter
LibriVox volunteers bring you 20 recordings of Winter by Robert Louis Stevenson. This was the Weekly Poetry project for November 22nd, 2009.
A Treatise of Modern Falconry
The 18th century book A Treatise on Modern Falconry is still one of the most quoted books in today's falconry community. The preface was pos…
Birds
Birds, Illustrated by Color Photography was a monthly publication of the Nature Study Publishing Company of Chicago. It includes short poems…
Wonders of Plant Life
A fascinating insight into the ways in which different plants cope with life, and the ingenious methods they use to encourage their benefact…
Birds
Birds, Illustrated by Color Photography was a monthly publication of the Nature Study Publishing Company of Chicago. It includes short poems…
The Desert, Further Studies in Natural Appearances
The Desert by John Charles Van Dyke, published in 1901, is a lush, poetic description of the natural beauty of the American Southwest. "…
The Lore of the Honey-Bee
The sun shines — you know it has always shone, changeless as Time itself. With such a faith — unfounded and therefore incontestable — I cam…
Where Animals Talk
Robert Nassau spent four decades as a medical missionary in Africa, arriving at Corisco Island, now part of Equatorial Guinea, in 1861; he a…
Days and Hours in a Garden
"Already the Snowdrops are giving way before impatient Hepaticas and Primroses, the bare Elms are thickening with purple, and we begin …
Secrets of the Friendly Woods
Rex Brasher is best known for his having painted in watercolor a complete set of all the extant American birds during his lifetime. This is …
The Wild Unmasked
Frank Howard Atkins (pen name F. St. Mars) tells in highly dramatic fashion the survival stories of several animals (and insects!) of the wi…
The Banana
Bananas are the most popular fruit in the world according to the BBC. In this book we see how this fruit that is grown in limited areas of t…
Cultus Arborum
CULTUS ARBORUM is a descriptive account of Phallic Tree worship with illustrative legends, superstitions, usages, et cetera, exhibiting its …