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Recording by Ernest Shackleton 1907 expedition

In South! The Story of Shackleton's Last Expedition 1914-1917

Read by Sir Ernest Shackleton


Ernest Shackleton


Shackleton's most famous expedition was planned to be an attempt to cross Antarctica from the Weddell Sea south of the Atlantic to the Ross …

Trinity College Podcasts

Read by Sir Ivor Roberts


Sir Ivor Roberts


University of Oxford Podcasts

Wild Animals I Have Known

Read by Ernest Thompson Seton


Ernest Thompson Seton


A BOOK THAT CHANGED AMERICA... Ernest Thompson Seton was an influential naturalist, and a sometime professional hunter and trapper. Much of…

Biography of a Grizzly

Read by Ernest Thompson Seton


Ernest Thompson Seton


"The life of a wild animal always has a tragic end," as Ernest Thompson Seton said. This is the story of Metitsi Wahb, born a pl…

MONARCH: the Big Bear of Tallac

Read by Ernest Thompson Seton


Ernest Thompson Seton


Ernest Thompson Seton's book, "Monarch, the Big Bear of Tallac." Published in 1919, it tells the story of a tiny Grizzly cub who g…

14 - The Fight between the Dorrill and the Moca

In Great Pirate Stories

Read by Ernest


Joseph Lewis French


Piracy embodies the romance of the sea at its highest expression. It isa sad but inevitable commentary on our civilization, that, so far as …

Second Word

In The Three Hours' Agony of Our Lord Jesus Christ

Read by Mark Ernest


Rev. Peter Guilday


A book of sermons on the Seven Last Words of Our Lord Jesus Christ. Given at the Church of Our Lady of Lourdes, New York City, on Good Frida…

The Haunted Palace - Read by MPE

In The Haunted Palace

Read by Mark Ernest


Edgar Allan Poe


"The Haunted Palace" originally issued in the Baltimore American Museum for April, 1888, was subsequently embodied in that much ad…

Millard Fillmore, December 2, 1851, part 2

In State of the Union Addresses by United States Presidents (1849 - 1856)

Read by Mark Ernest


Millard Fillmore


The State of the Union address is a speech presented by the President of the United States to a joint session of the United States Congress,…

Home Songs - Read by MPE

In Home Songs

Read by Mark Ernest


John Charles McNeill and John Charles Mcneill


McNeill died at an early age of 36 years, but during his brief life he established himself as the foremost literary figure of North Carolina…

Mongols at Home

In Across Mongolian Plains: A Naturalist's Account of China's 'Great Northwest'

Read by Mark Ernest


Roy Chapman Andrews


An account of a 1918 journey to Northern China by famed adventurer/paleontologist Roy Chapman Andrews. Andrews, who was the inspiration for …

IF - Read by MPE

In IF

Read by Mark Ernest


Rudyard Kipling


This poem is considered one of the most inspirational guidelines on how to live and act with integrity and develop a winning strategy throug…

A Wish - Read by MPE

In A Wish

Read by Mark Ernest


Samuel Rogers


Samuel Rogers was an English poet, during his lifetime one of the most celebrated, although his fame has long since been eclipsed by his Rom…

Truth - Read by MPE

In Truth

Read by Mark Ernest


Elizabeth Barrett Browning


Elizabeth Barrett Browning was an English poet of the Victorian era, popular in Britain and the United States during her lifetime.Elizabeth …

The Poet and The Baby - Read by MPE

In The Poet and The Baby

Read by Mark Ernest


Paul Laurence Dunbar


What struck me in reading Mr. Dunbar's poetry was what had already struck his friends in Ohio and Indiana, in Kentucky and Illinois. They ha…

Part 3, chapter 1

In A Raw Youth

Read by Mark Ernest


Fyodor Dostoyevsky


Arkady Dolgoruky, is a 19-year-old intellectual. He is the illegitimate son of a landowner and dreams to become rich. In his quest to fulfi…