Kevin Green
29 books
Chemistry
854
John Mastin - Chemistry, Properties and Tests of Precious Stones
This is a good basic introduction to gemstones and their analysis. Admittedly a lot of the scientific tests have been superseded, but the basic properties never change. The first part of the book concentrates on...
2 hours 58 minutes
Memoirs
954
Margaret Herschel - Memoir and Correspondence of Caroline Herschel
For many people, the name Caroline Herschel will be unfamiliar, but she was one of the most significant women on the English scientific scene during the late 18th and early 19th century. Sister of the well known...
10 hours 36 minutes
Humorous Fiction
2.3K
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Robert Smith Surtees - Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour
Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour is a delightful comic satire of the fox-hunting fraternity of the mid 19th Century. Surtees takes great pleasure in creating comic personalities and dialogue and resembles the later Pickwick...
20 hours 14 minutes
Detective Fiction
1.1K
Anna Katharine Green - Leavenworth Case (Version 2)
The Leavenworth Case is a gripping detective novel set in New York, and is one of the first detective fiction novels to be written by a female. Indeed, it was the first novel by Anna Katharine Green who came to be...
12 hours 6 minutes
War & Military
814
Maurice Andrew Brackenreed Johnston - Four-Fifty Miles to Freedom
Four-Fifty Miles to Freedom is the true but little known story of the escape of eight British Prisoners-of-War from a Turkish POW camp during the First World War. The story, written by two of the escapees, describes...
6 hours 51 minutes
