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Chapter 3 - The mouth-parts and sense-organs

In The Flea

Read by Paul Parkinson


Harold Russell


A scientific study on the life cycle, and functions of the common insect, the Flea.- Summary by Elijah

The First Steam Warships

In The Romance of the Ship

Read by Paul Parkinson


Edward Keble Chatterton


To attempt to describe within limits of one book the whole evolution of the ship from the days of her crude beginnings and limited utility t…

Chapter 12, RIGHT THROUGH THE BLOCKADE

In Gun Running for Casement

Read by Paul Parkinson


Karl Spindler


Sir Roger David Casement was a British public servant renowned for his Congo Report (1904) and his Putumayo Report (1912) both of which expo…

Chapter 23

In Ran Away to Sea

Read by Paul Parkinson


Thomas Mayne Reid


"I was just sixteen when I ran away to sea." So begins the story of Will, a young man attracted to the romance of the sea. But t…

Part 3, Chapter 1: Concerning the Schoolboy and Schoolgirl (part 2)

In Home Education Series Vol. V: Some Studies in the Formation of Character

Read by Paul Parkinson


Charlotte Mason


This is the fifth volume in the Home Education Series detailing Charlotte Mason's method of education. This volume is subtitled "Some S…

Ancient Egypt

Read by Richard Parkinson and Barbara Ewing


Richard Parkinson and Barbara Ewing


University of Oxford Podcasts

A Tale of Two Cities (version 2)

Read by Paul Adams


Charles Dickens


A Tale of Two Cities (1859) is a novel by Charles Dickens, set in London and Paris before and during the French Revolution. With well over 2…

The Art of War (version 2)

Read by Paul Sze


Sun Tzu 孙武


The Art of War is a Chinese military treatise written during the 6th century BC by Sun Tzu. Composed of 13 chapters, each of which is devote…

Sidelights on Relativity

Read by Paul Adams


Albert Einstein


Sidelights on Relativity contains ETHER AND THE THEORY OF RELATIVITY, an address delivered on May 5th, 1920, in the University of Leyden; an…

The Marvelous Land of Oz

Read by Paul Harvey


L. Frank Baum


The Marvelous Land of Oz is the second of the Oz books. It follows the adventures of the Scarecrow, the Tin Woodman and Tip. The Emerald Ci…

The Prince (Version 2)

Read by Paul Adams


Niccolò Machiavelli


The Prince (Italian: Il Principe) is a political treatise by the Italian diplomat, historian and political theorist Niccolò Machiavel…

Red Shadows

Read by Paul Siegel


Robert E. Howard


Red Shadows is the first of a series of stories featuring Howard's puritan avenger, Solomon Kane. Kane tracks his prey over land and sea, en…