Nature

Fast in the Ice

Read by Esther


R. M. Ballantyne


At the age of 16 Ballantyne went to Canada and was six years in the service of the Hudson's Bay Company. His rule in writing, being in every…

Birds of the Air

Read by Laura Caldwell


Arabella B. Buckley


Arabella Buckley had a great love of nature and wished to impart that love to children. Birds of the Air will encourage children to observe …

Lectures on Landscape

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John Ruskin


A series of lectures on landscape painting delivered at Oxford in 1871, by artist, critic, and social commentator, John Ruskin.

The Elements of Botany

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William Ruschenberger


The Elements of Botany is one of seven in a Series of First Books of Natural History Prepared for the Use of Schools and Colleges. It is a s…

Squirrels and Other Fur-bearers

Read by Laura Caldwell


John Burroughs


Squirrels and other Fur-Bearers, a collection of essays by American naturalist and essayist, John Burroughs, provides fascinating insight in…

Eine Reise in das Innere der Insel Formosa

Read by Dirk Weber


Karl Theodor Stöpel


Eine Reise in das Innere der Insel Formosa und die erste Besteigung des Niitakayama (Mount Morrison) Weihnachten 1898, so der vollständ…

Love and Friendship

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Emily Brontë


LibriVox volunteers bring you 17 recordings of Love and Friendship by Emily Brontë. This was the Weekly Poetry project for July 17, 201…

The Art of Landscape Painting in Oil Colour

Read by Sue Anderson


Sir Alfred Edward East


Sketching from Nature, Equipment, Colour, Composition, Trees, Skies, Grass, Reflections, Distance -- chapters rich with timeless oil paintin…

The Outline of Science, Vol 3

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J. Arthur Thomson


The Outline of Science was written specifically with the man-on-the-street in mind as the target audience. Covering scientific subjects rang…

An Essay on the Principle of Population

Read by Geoffrey Edwards


Thomas Malthus


The power of population is indefinitely greater than the power in the earth to produce subsistence for man. Population, when unchecked, incr…

Because I Could Not Stop For Death

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Emily Dickinson


LibriVox volunteers bring you 15 recordings of Because I Could Not Stop For Death by Emily Dickinson. This was the Weekly Poetry project for…

Love is enough

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William Morris


LibriVox volunteers bring you 16 recordings of Love is enough by William Morris. This was the Weekly Poetry project for February 17, 2013.Wi…

Wood and Garden: Notes and Thoughts, Practical and Critical, of a Working Amate…

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Gertrude Jekyll


Wood and Garden reads like a walk through the garden with renowned garden designer Gertrude Jekyll as she discusses her plant choices and pl…

The Natural History Volume 3

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Pliny the Elder


Naturalis Historia (Latin for "Natural History") is an encyclopedia published circa AD 77-79 by Pliny the Elder. It is one of the …

Has a Frog a Soul?

Read by Carl Manchester


Thomas Henry Huxley


Thomas Huxley, known as “Darwin’s Bulldog” for his championing and development of Darwinism, was perhaps the most important Victorian biolog…

Fathers of Biology

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Charles Mcrae


An account given of the lives of five great naturalists (Hippocrates, Aristotle, Galen, Vesalius and Harvey) will not be found devoid of int…

California Coast Trails

Read by Adrian Praetzellis


Joseph Smeaton Chase


In 1911, decades before California's coast Highway 1 was built, an Englishman rode 2000 miles on horseback the length of California, from Me…

The Gamekeeper at Home

Read by Andy Minter (1934-2017)


Richard Jefferies


Richard Jefferies (1848 – 1887) was born and spent his childhood on a farm at Coate,Wiltshire. He joined the ‘Wiltshire and Gloucestershire …

The Flower Garden: A Handbook of Practical Garden Lore

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Ida Dandridge Bennett


This book is a good reference on the perennial flower gardening and landscaping. It contains information on growing the plants from seed and…

Experiments in Plant Hybridisation

Read by Availle


Gregor Mendel


Gregor Mendel was an Augustinian monk in the St. Thomas monastery in Brno. His seminal paper "Experiments in Plant Hybridization" …

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