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Thomas Malthus - Essay on the Principle of Population

The power of population is indefinitely greater than the power in the earth to produce subsistence for man. Population, when unchecked, increases in a geometrical ratio. Subsistence increases only in an arithmetical...

Geoffrey Edwards 5 hours 32 minutes

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469

Enos A. Mills - Wild Life on the Rockies

«This book contains the record of a few of the many happy days and novel experiences which I have had in the wilds. For more than twenty years it has been my good fortune to live most of the time with nature, on the...

Laura Caldwell 4 hours 22 minutes

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Animals

461

Frederick G. Aflalo - Birds in the Calendar

Delightful sketches of British wild birds — a bird for every month of the year from the pheasant in January to the robin in December. This collection of articles, reprinted in book form from the periodical The...

Ruth Golding 2 hours 29 minutes

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456

John Muir - My First Summer in the Sierra

The journal of nature-lover John Muir who spent the summer of 1869 walking California’s Sierra Nevada range. From French Bar to Mono Lake and the Yosemite Valley, Muir was awestruck by everything he saw. The antics...

Adrian Praetzellis 7 hours 13 minutes

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Nature

673

John Burroughs - Nature Near Home and Other Papers

Nature Near Home is one of many books on natural history by John Burroughs. It is full of simple observations about rural scenes and charming stories about animals, plants, and even people! Burroughs loves the...

Edith Phern 2 hours 9 minutes

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553

J. Arthur Thomson - Outline of Science, Vol 1 (Solo)

In The Outline of Science, Thomson gives us a window into scientific thinking as it stood in 1922 on the big, the little, and the biological. With straightforward language intended for a general audience, this book...

Mark F. Smith 10 hours 1 minute The Outline of Science

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Children's Fiction

553

Jane Andrews - Stories Mother Nature Told Her Children

«You may think that Mother Nature, like the famous „old woman who lived in the shoe,“ has so many children that she doesn't know what to do. But you will know better when you become acquainted with her, and learn how...

Mrs. Darcy and 9 more 2 hours 24 minutes

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557

Gene Stratton-Porter - Moths of the Limberlost

Gene Stratton-Porter (August 17, 1863 — December 6, 1924) was an American author, amateur naturalist, wildlife photographer, specializing in the birds and moths in one of the last of the vanishing wetlands of the...

J. M. Smallheer 4 hours 32 minutes

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General Fiction

558

Gene Stratton-Porter - Freckles

Freckles is a young man who has been raised since infancy in a Chicago orphanage. His one dream is to find a job, a place to belong and people who accept him despite his youth and the disability of having only one...

Mary Anderson and 6 more 8 hours 43 minutes

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Short Nonfiction Collection Vol. 006

A collection of fifteen short nonfiction works in the public domain. The essays, speeches and reports included in this collection were independently selected by the readers, and the topics encompass history,...

Mark F. Smith and 10 more 3 hours 37 minutes Short Nonfiction Collections

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Short Nonfiction Collection Vol. 005

A collection of ten short nonfiction works in the public domain. The essays, speeches, news items and reports included in this collection were independently selected by the readers, and the topics encompass history,...

Alan Davis Drake and 7 more 2 hours 21 minutes Short Nonfiction Collections

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Jean-Henri Fabre - Life of the Spider

Jean-Henri Casimir Fabre was a French entomologist and author. He was born in St. Léons in Aveyron, France. Fabre was largely an autodidact, owing to the poverty of his family. Nevertheless, he acquired a primary...

Bryan Ness and 6 more 7 hours 44 minutes

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Stolen Bacillus and other stories H. G. Wells

Eight Keys to Eden Mark Clifton

Songs of Innocence and Experience (version 2) William Blake

Russian Realities and Problems: Lectures delivered at Cambridge in August 1916

Short Story Collection Vol. 081

Around the World with the Children Frank G. Carpenter

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