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Chapter 4

In With Fire and Sword (Byers)

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Samuel H.M. Byers and Samuel H. M. Byers


Samuel H. M. Byers was an American poet, diplomat, and soldier in the Civil War. "In war some persons seek adventures; others have them…

Chapter I: Part 1

In The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Vol. I

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Edward Gibbon


The History of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, a major literary achievement of the 18th century published in six volumes, was writ…

The Colonial Press

In History of the United States, Vol. I

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Charles and Mary Beard and Charles Austin Beard


Charles Austin Beard was the most influential American historian of the early 20th century. He published hundreds of monographs, textbooks a…

Chapter XI, Part 5

In The History of England, from the Accession of James II - (Volume 3, Chapter 11)

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Thomas Babington Macaulay


In chapter 11 William and Mary have been crowned and settle down to the task of ruling England. An endless succession of British noblemen jo…

01 - Preface + Chapter 1

In Robert O'Hara Burke and the Australian Exploring Expedition of 1860

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Andrew Jackson


A non-fictional account of Burke and Wills's 1860 expedition to cross the Australian continent from south to north and then return. Containi…

Chapter 2 Winter Storms and Spring Floods

In The Yosemite

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John Muir


John Muir's adventure guide for the Yosemite Valley.

18-2 - Tahiti and New Zealand

In The Voyage of the Beagle

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Charles Darwin


The book, also known as Darwin's Journal of Researches, is a vivid and exciting travel memoir as well as a detailed scientific field journal…

A Wind-Storm in the Forests

In The Mountains of California

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John Muir


John Muir (1838–1914) was one of the first modern preservationists. His letters, essays, and books telling of his adventures in nature, and …

02 - A Visit to the Moon

In Life in a Thousand Worlds

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William Shuler Harris


A jolly romp, which could be perhaps be described as Gulliver’s Travels Through Our Solar System and Beyond, as written by a great admirer o…

Chapter V, Part 20

In The History of England, from the Accession of James II - (Volume 1, Chapter 05)

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Thomas Babington Macaulay


This chapter of Macaulay’s History of England is concerned, for a large part, with insurrection against James II and his manoeuverings to su…

Beaconsville, Lent and Revivals

In Selected Interviews with Robert G. Ingersoll, Volume 1

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Robert G. Ingersoll


A controversial lecturer, brilliant lawyer, and arguably the most famous orator of the mid to late 1800's, Ingersoll railed against the absu…

Foreign Lands read by Chris Chapman

In Foreign Lands

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Robert Louis Stevenson


LibriVox volunteers bring you 17 different recordings of Foreign Lands by Robert Louis Stevenson. This was the weekly poetry project for the…

Chapter 33, part 5

In History of England from the Invasion of Julius Caesar to the Revolution of 1688…

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David Hume


David Hume is one of the great philosophers of the Western intellectual tradition. His philosophical writings earned him lasting fame and re…