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Stories Of Alpine Adventure

Read by Steve C


Frank Mundell


Mont Blanc is the Monarch of the Mountains: They crown'd him long ago On a throne of rocks, in a robe of clouds, With a diadem of snow. (Byr…

Stories Of Balloon Adventure

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Frank Mundell


In the following pages will be found brief narratives of some of the more famous incidents and exciting episodes which mark the history of b…

Stories of the Fire Brigade

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Frank Mundell


The stories presented here have been collected from reports of actual incidents responded to by various fire brigades with examples from bot…

Stories of the Royal Humane Society

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Frank Mundell


Established in 1774, the ‘Society for the Recovery of Persons Apparently Drowned’ published information on how to save people from drowning,…

An Idler In The Wilds

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Tickner Edwardes


Although he was well known around the South Downs in West Sussex as 'The Bee-man of Burpham', Tickner Edwardes also had a great affinity for…

The Burston Rebellion

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Thomas George Higdon


The early 20th century in Great Britain saw a seismic shift in political awareness especially amongst the working classes. This led to a sig…

The Kosova Liberation Army - a Living Inheritance?

In Ethics, Law and Armed Conflict

Read by James Pettifer


Various


University of Oxford Podcasts

Practices of Criminals i

In Criminal Investigation: a Practical Handbook for Magistrates, Police Officers a…

Read by Steve


Hans Gross


Reputedly inspired by the Sherlock Holmes stories, Austrian criminal jurist and examining magistrate Hans Gross wrote the first handbook on …

05 Chapter IV

In The Andes and The Amazon

Read by Steve Mattingly


James Orton


This book, with the subtitle "Across the Continent of South America" describes the scientific expedition of 1867 to the equatorial…

03 - In the Gable Window

In The Mayor's Wife

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Anna Katharine Green


Miss Saunders is out for an adventure. One, which is full of secrets, hints, and half-lies. One, which will require all of her wits. She is …

Chapter I c: The Stimuli and Sources of Dreams Part 2

In The Interpretation of Dreams

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Sigmund Freud


A neat book on dream analysis by the founding father of psychoanalysis. This book is about the inner theater and the workings of the mind in…

The Ultimate Experiment

In Short Science Fiction Collection 044

Read by Steve Belleguelle


Thornton DeKy


Science Fiction is speculative literature that generally explores the consequences of ideas which are roughly consistent with nature and sci…

03 - The Talisman of Solomon (Part I)

In Twilight Land

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Howard Pyle


The room was all full of twilight; but there they sat, every one of them. I did not count them, but there were ever so many: Aladdin, and Al…

Part 2. Chapter 1

In Omega: The Last Days of the World

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Camille Flammarion


Omega: The Last Days of the World is a science fiction novel published in 1894 by Camille Flammarion. On 25th century Earth, a comet made mo…

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