David Wales
Yellowstone National Park: Six Early Pieces
Lost in the wilderness of The Yellowstone for over a month, nearly dying of starvation and wild animal attack, despairing of ever finding hi…
Captain William Kidd And Others Of The Buccaneers
Pirate stories galore! Pirate life was not always what it seemed from the outside. - Summary by david wales
The Flint Heart
The flint heart is a stone of heart shape, forged in prehistoric times, that changes whoever owns it into a wicked person. The story of the …
Two American Slavery Documents
This recording contains two original documents. 1) Life of James Mars, a Slave Born and Sold in Connecticut, by James Mars (1869). James …
Under The Sky In California
This is a 1913 travelogue by a then-well-known botanist who wrote many books about the American Southwest and California in particular. This…
Life In California, Excerpted From 'Roughing It' By Mark Twain
This recording is chapters 56 through 61 plus 78 of the 1879 edition of 'Roughing It' by Mark Twain (1835-1910). The chapters contain in Tw…
Pioneer Life Among The Loyalists In Upper Canada
What became of the citizens who remained loyal to the Crown when the thirteen British colonies rebelled against England – and won! These Lo…
The Light Invisible
Fifteen short ghost stories by the Anglican then Roman Catholic priest, Robert Hugh Benson (1871-1914). The form of the book is of an old En…
Hugh Walpole: Selected Short Stories
Eleven short stories from The Windsor Magazine in the 1920s, Best British Short Stories of 1922, and Best British Short Stories of 1923. - S…
Myths And Legends Of The Great Plains (version 2)
Here, amidst the vast sweep of the plains which stretch away to the horizon on every side, boundless, limitless, endless, lived the plains I…
Saunterings In And About London
A witty 1853 travelogue by a cultured German for his countrymen. “…for I did not write for an English public, nor did I ever pretend to popu…
Elsie And The Child; A Tale Of Riceyman Steps And Other Stories
Thirteen short stories (1924) by a master story teller of the early twentieth century. His writings, fiction and nonfiction, were popular wi…
The Good Soldier; A Selection Of Soldiers' Letters, 1914-1918
“Here are boys, all sorts of boys: French, English, Italian, American… These are soldiers’ letters written home. But reading, one finds t…
The Cathedral
Sir Hugh Seymour Walpole, CBE (1884 – 1941) was an English novelist. He was the son of an Anglican clergyman, intended for a career in the c…
Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions Together With Death's Duel
Devotions upon Emergent Occasions is a 1624 prose work by the English theologian and writer John Donne, Dean of St. Paul’s Cathedral in Lond…
Audubon's Western Journal: 1849-1850
John Woodhouse Audubon (1812-1862), son of the famous painter John James Audubon and an artist in his own right, joined Col. Henry Webb's Ca…
A Mirror Of Shalott
Fourteen stories of the strange by the Anglican then Roman Catholic priest, Robert Hugh Benson (1871-1914). The form of the book is of stori…
St Andrews Ghost Stories
Seventeen ghost stories (fourth edition published 1921) centered around the ruined medieval cathedral of Saint Andrew in the Scots city of t…
The Private Soldier Under Washington
Much was been written about the American Revolution, but our knowledge of the private solders of the patriot army is confined chiefly to Was…
A Christmas Miscellany 2018
Sixteen Christmas stories or essays. (David Wales)