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Letters of Travel

Read by Tim Bulkeley (1948-2019)


Rudyard Kipling


Three books of travel writing (between them covering the USA, Canada, Japan and Egypt) by the Nobel Prize winning author of the Just So Stor…

American Notes

Read by Tim Bulkeley (1948-2019)


Rudyard Kipling


In American Notes, Rudyard Kipling, the Nobel Prize-winning author of the Jungle Book, visits the USA. As the travel-diary of an Anglo-India…

More William (version 2)

Read by Tim Bulkeley (1948-2019)


Richmal Crompton


More William is the second William collection in the much acclaimed Just William series by Richmal Crompton. It is a sequel to the book Just…

France At War: On the Frontier of Civilization

Read by Tim Bulkeley (1948-2019)


Rudyard Kipling


In 1915, as the "Great War" (World War 1) entered its second year Rudyard Kipling made a journalistic tour of the front, visiting …

Stalky & Co. (More Stories)

Read by Tim Bulkeley (1948-2019)


Rudyard Kipling


This small collection puts together stories by Kipling that feature the characters from Stalky & Co. but which for some reason were not …

The Square Egg and Other Sketches

Read by Tim Bulkeley (1948-2019)


Saki


Eight amusing short pieces by Hector Hugh Munro (pen name Saki) who died in the First World War, collected and published posthumously in 192…

Egyptian Tales, translated from the Papyri, Series One

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William Matthew Flinders Petrie


Brief, and in some cases incomplete, stories of magic from ancient Egypt. (Summary by Timothy Ferguson)

Autobiography of a Seaman, Vol. 1

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Lord Thomas Cochrane


This two volume work is the autobiography of Lord Cochrane, a naval captain of the Napoleonic period. His adventures are seminal to the deve…

On War (Volume 1)

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Carl Von Clausewitz


A classic work on military strategy by a veteran of the Napoleonic Wars. The author's style is dialectical: he makes two strong but opposing…

On War (Volumes 2 and 3)

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Carl Von Clausewitz


Perhaps the most famous work on the philosophy of war, and the effective use of military force, by a European author. (Summary by Timothy Fe…

Greek and Roman Ghost Stories

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Lacy Collison-Morley


A non-fiction work, comparing and collecting ghost stories by Classical Greek and Republican or Imperial Roman authors. (Summary by Timothy …

Plants and People

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Timothy Walker


University of Oxford Podcasts

Literary Taste: How to Form It

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Arnold Bennett


Arnold Bennett describes a method for enjoying literature, and suggests the contents of a comprehensive library. Chapters 1-10 and 14 descri…

Manual of Egyptian Archaeology and Guide to the Study of Antiquities in Egypt

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Gaston Maspero


A handbook of Egyptian archaeology, issued by the British Museum, considered suitable for British tourists traveling to Egypt in the 19th Ce…

Egyptian Tales, translated from the Papyri, Series Two : XVIIIth to XIXth Dynas…

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William Matthew Flinders Petrie


Egyptian stories translated from ancient, often incomplete, documents. - Summary by Timothy Ferguson

Autobiography of a Seaman, Vol. 2

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Lord Thomas Cochrane


This second volume of the biography of Lord Cochrane deals with his fall from grace, imprisonment for debt, loss of honours, and attempts to…

The Tale of Terror: A Study of the Gothic Romance

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Edith Birkhead


A seminal essay on the development of horror as a genre, highly influential on later writers. - Summary by Timothy Ferguson

The Gladstone Colony: An Unwritten Chapter of Australian History

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James Francis Hogan


This is an early history of the failed attempt to found the colony of North Australia at Gladstone, in what is now Central Queensland. (Summ…

Scilly and its Legends

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Henry John Whitfield


A travel journal to the Scilly Islands written in the Nineteenth Century. It records Scillonian legends and folklore. There are brief divers…

The Life of Thomas, Lord Cochrane, Tenth Earl of Dundonald, Vol 1

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Henry Richard Fox Bourne and Thomas Barnes Cochrane


Lord Cochrane was a Napoleonic-era sea captain, whose adventures were the source material for many popular series of naval fiction. He start…

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