Kara Shallenberg
253 books
*Non-fiction
613
Charles Darwin - Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection
Charles Darwin’s The Origin of Species (publ. 1859) is a pivotal work in scientific literature and arguably the pivotal work in evolutionary biology. The book’s full title is On the Origin of Species by Means of...
24 hours 22 minutes
*Non-fiction
518
Rufus Estes - Good Things to Eat As Suggested By Rufus
Rufus Estes was born a slave in 1857 in Tennessee, and experienced first hand the turmoil of the Civil War. He began working in a Nashville restaurant at the age of 16, and in 1883 took up employment as a Pullman...
6 hours 12 minutes
*Non-fiction
608
Frank R. Stockton - Buccaneers and Pirates of Our Coasts
Buccaneers is non-fiction, a highly readable history of how piracy began and spread throughout the region in response to the plundering of Spanish colonialism. It is written with great flair for the dramatic by the...
7 hours 15 minutes
