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Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America

Read by Gail Timmerman Vaughan


Alexander Von Humboldt



In Volume 2 of “The Personal Narrative”, Alexander von Humboldt and the botanist Aimé Bonpland continue their travels, beginning at L…

John James Audubon

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John Burroughs



Audubon's life naturally divides itself into three periods: his youth, which was on the whole a gay and happy one, and which lasted till the…

First Fifty Digits of Pi

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Scott Hemphill



56 flavors of Pi proudly produced by LibriVox volunteers to celebrate Pi Day, 2008. (3/14) Don't worry, you don't have to listen to an infin…

Pearl of Great Price

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Joseph Smith, Jr.



The Pearl of Great Price is a selection of choice materials touching many significant aspects of the faith and doctrine of The Church of Jes…

A New England Girlhood

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Lucy Larcom



Lucy Larcom was an American poet, teacher, and mill-worker. According to Wikipedia: "Larcom served as a model for the change in women's…

Short Nonfiction Collection

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Various



A collection of fifteen short nonfiction works in the public domain. The essays, speeches and reports included in this collection were inde…

The Will and the Way Stories

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Jessie Benton Frémont



Simply put, this is a book of 9 short vignettes each of which describes a different scenario which demonstrates the age old adage: 'where th…

The Life and Ventures of the Original John Jacob Astor

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Elizabeth Louisa Gebhard and Elizabeth L. Gebhard



John Jacob Astor was pre-eminently the opener of new paths, a breaker of trails. From his first tramp alone through the Black Forest of Bade…

Bonaparte in Egypt and the Egyptians of To-day

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Haji A. Browne



Knowing the Egyptian as I know him, I cannot but think that he is greatly misunderstood, even by those who are sincerely anxious to befriend…

Reviews

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Oscar Wilde



Wilde’s literary reputation has survived so much that I think it proof against any exhumation of articles which he or his admirers would hav…

Twentieth Century Inventions

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George Sutherland



This work from 1901 predicts what technological developments will manifest in the twentieth century. The author, a technical journalist, pre…

The Groundwork of the Christian Virtues

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William Bernard Ullathorne



William Bernard Ullathorne was a Benedictine monk and Roman Catholic priest who ministered in Australia from 1833 until 1840 and then return…

Walking In Faith

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Tim Greenwood



My open-heart surgery had failed and the doctor’s told me that nothing more could be done. At age 45, I was diagnosed with terminal heart d…

The Life and Adventures of James P. Beckwourth

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T. D. Bonner



Buried amid the sublime passes of the Sierra Nevada are old men, who, when children, strayed away from our crowded settlements, and, gradual…

Filipenses

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Reina-Valera



Esta cariñosa carta de Pablo elogia a los filipenses por su fe y apoyo. Les exhorta a centrar sus vidas en Cristo y a estar contentos…

Diary Written in the Provincial Lunatic Asylum

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Mary Huestis Pengilly



Mary Pengilly was taken to a Lunatic Asylum by her sons where she kept a diary, which this book is taken from. Mary records the harsh condit…

Ali Pacha

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Alexandre Dumas



Ali Tepeleni, Pacha of Janina, rose to power during the early 1800s in one of the Ottoman Empire’s most unruly territories (Albania). His fe…

Short Nonfiction Collection

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Various



Fifteen short nonfiction works in the public domain, independently chosen by the readers. Topics include Philosophy and Psychology: selectio…

Short Nonfiction Collection

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Various



A collection of ten short nonfiction works in the public domain. The essays, speeches, news items and reports included in this collection we…

Marius the Epicurean

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Walter Pater



Marius the Epicurean is a philosophical novel written by Walter Pater, published in 1885. In it Pater displays, with fullness and elaboratio…

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