Josh Kirsh
18 books
History
1.5K
Constance Campbell Petrie - Tom Petrie's reminiscences of early Queensland (dating from 1837). Recorded by his daughter.
Tom Petrie (1831-1910), explorer and grazier, arrived in the then convict settlement of Moreton Bay in 1837. His reminiscences of what was to become the colony of Queensland were recorded by his daughter, Constance,...
12 hours 53 minutes
Essays & Short Works
1.1K
Arthur Symons - Figures of Several Centuries
Arthur Symons talks through the histories and works of poets, playwrights, scholars and scribes. He provides both personal experience and critical wonder to the worlds of his subjects; Donne, Ibsen, Baudelaire and...
8 hours 59 minutes
History
955
Frederick Jackson Turner - Frontier in American History
Frederick Jackson Turner was an extremely influential U.S. historian, who is best known for his «frontier thesis», which proposed that American democracy was profoundly shaped by the existence of an undeveloped...
10 hours 16 minutes
War & Military
1.2K
Sir Edward Shepherd Creasy - Fifteen Decisive Battles of the World
This work is Edward Creasy's best known fundamental work of history. It describes in detail 15 battles of world history, beginning with the Battle of Marathon of 490 BC and ending with the Battle of Waterloo of 1815....
19 hours 25 minutes
