LibriVox Audio Books Catalog (Page 2)

This book is composed of selections from Alexander Teixeira de Mattos’ Translation of Fabre’s “Souvenirs Entomologiques,” retold for childre…

The Woodpeckers

Read by Laura Victoria

Fannie Hardy Eckstorm

The Woodpeckers is a wonderful introduction to the world of bird study for the young naturalist, covering such topics as how he finds food, …

How to Tell the Birds from the Flowers

Read by Andrea L

Robert Williams Wood

How do you tell apart a parrot from a carrot? A plover from a clover? A bay from a jay? Although there are several ways of differentiating, …

LibriVox 7th Anniversary Collection

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Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm

To celebrate the 7 years of LibriVox , readers from all around the world have recorded 77 works they have selected, all of which have 7 in …

The ABC of Relativity

Read by Ciufi Galeazzi

Bertrand Russell

The ABC of Relativity clearly and engagingly explains Einstein's Theory of Relativity to the layperson. It is considered to be a significant…

Apis Mellifica

Read by Marie Daum

C. W. Wolf

Wolf's essay considers the homeopathic medicine Apis Mellifica, or the poison of the honey bee, as a therapeutic agent based on his experien…

The Hurricane Hunters

Read by David Wales

Ivan Ray Tannehill

This 1955 book by an acknowledged authority is an absorbing account of meteorology before the advent of weather satellites. “This is the li…

The Bee People

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Margaret Warner Morley

"The Honey-bees are buzzy-fuzzy little pepper pots" Thus this wonderful nature writer begins to tell us about bees, their habits, …

Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the…

Read by Gail Timmerman Vaughan

Aimé Bonpland, Alexander von Humboldt and Alexander Von Humboldt

Volume 3, the final volume of the “Personal Narrative”, records the travels of Alexander von Humboldt and the botanist Aimé Bonpland …

A Text-book of Assaying

Read by Peter Yearsley

Cornelius Beringer and Cornelius Beringerandjohn Jacob Beringer

This is a formal but relaxed text covering assaying techniques for most of the substances which are mined. As the authors say: "At firs…

A Brief History of Forestry

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Bernhard Eduard Fernow

An accessible, comprehensive summary of the science and art of forestry, from its ancient roots to its 20th century techniques (many of whic…

The Science - History of the Universe Vol. 8: Mathematics

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Francis Rolt-Wheeler

Multi-volume work on science edited by Francis Rolt-Wheeler. The eighth volume is on Pure Mathematics written by L. Leland Locke and on Math…

Seed-Babies

Read by SweetHome

Margaret Warner Morley

Seed Babies piques the child's interest about how seeds grow. It provides interesting information about seeds in a conversational style bet…

The Science - History of the Universe Vol. 7: Anthropology & Medicine

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Francis Rolt-Wheeler

Multi-volume work on science edited by Francis Rolt-Wheeler. The seventh volume is on Anthropology written by the editor himself and on Medi…

The Chemistry of Cookery

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W. Mattieu Williams

This book, written in the late 1800s, is a book of chemistry that explains the whys and hows of cooking to trained chefs and laymen alike. T…

Astronomy: The Science of the Heavenly Bodies

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David Todd

The progress of astronomy from age to age has been far from uniform—rather by leaps and bounds: from the earliest epoch when man's planet ea…

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…

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