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6 - The Overland Road; Money Giving Out

In By Ox Team to California - A Narrative of Crossing the Plains in 1860

Read by Sue Anderson


Lavinia Honeyman Porter


Imagine a young, twenty-something woman in 1860, reared “in the indolent life of the ordinary Southern girl” (which means she has never lear…

Artists Look at Roads

In Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 093

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Richard F. Weingroff


"Flirting is more serious than talking nonsense and not so serious as making love" was journalist Eliza Lynn Linton's take on rela…

A Happy Hour's Command --- Sources of Character-Results-1860

In Specimen Days

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Walt Whitman


Specimen Days is essentially the great American poet Walt Whitman's scrap book. It documents most of his life's adventures, especially his e…

Native Bees

In Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 053

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Beatriz Moisset


Twenty short nonfiction works in the public domain, independently chosen by the readers. Topics include History--Jocelyn de Brakelond's 13th…

20 - Book 8, Chapters 13-22: Dragons; serpents of remarkable size; the animals …

In The Natural History Volume 2

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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 …

The Woodland Halló - Read by SLG

In The Woodland Halló

Read by Sue Gill


Robert Bloomfield


LibriVox volunteers bring you 20 recordings of The Woodland Halló by Robert Bloomfield.This was the Weekly Poetry project for March 2…

Byron - A Dog of Scotland

In Dog Heroes of Many Lands

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Sarah Noble Ives


Dogs are great, everyone knows that. And they can be heroes, too! This book brings together eleven dogs from around the world who have prove…

Cubist Art Will be Investigated (1913)

In Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 097

Read by Sue Anderson


Anonymous


"One does not care to walk over a rug or carpet that displays a scene in perspective, neither does one wish to gaze into a landscape wr…

Experiments with Nettles as a Substitute for Cotton in WWI

In Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 056

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Anonymous


Fifteen short nonfiction works in the public domain, independently chosen by the readers. Topics include the impact of World War I on human …

Communal Life of Yellow-Jacket Wasps

In Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 057

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George Williams Peckham


Fifteen short nonfiction works in the public domain, independently chosen by the readers. Natural cataclysm is the subject of several readin…

Chapters 66-70

In Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini Vol 1

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Benvenuto Cellini


Cellini's autobiographical memoirs, which he began writing in Florence in 1558, give a detailed account of his singular career, as well as h…

07 - Chapter VII

In Afloat on the Ohio

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Reuben Gold Thwaites


Afloat on the Ohio, An Historical Pilgrimage, of a Thousand Miles in a Skiff, From Redstone to Cairo.There were four of us pilgrims—my Wife,…

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