Phil Benson
65 books
Philosophy
519
C. W. Leadbeater - Astral Plane: Its Scenery, Inhabitants and Phenomena
As sceptics dismissed other-worldly phenomena as the stuff of legend, trickery or delusion, nineteenth-century 'occult science' set out to explain them scientifically. Here, C. W. Leadbeater maps out the scenery and...
3 hours 29 minutes
War & Military
455
Robert Burrows - Extracts from a Diary Kept by the Rev. R. Burrows during Heke's War in the North, in 1845
An eye-witness account of the so-called Flagstaff War, fought between Maori warriors, led by Hone Heke, and British troops between March 1845 and January 1846 in and around the Bay of Islands. Ostensibly triggered by...
3 hours 26 minutes
*Non-fiction
418
Walter Ferdinando Grew - Cycle Industry, its origin, history and latest developments
From the velocipede to the motor cycle in twenty chapters. A short history of the British bicycle industry from its origins in a Coventry sewing machine factory in 1868 to its transformation into one of the countries...
3 hours 11 minutes
Poetry
475
Ann Hawkshaw - Dionysius the Areopagite, with other poems
An early figure in the birth of poetry in industrial Manchester, Ann Hawkshaw published three collections and another was circulated privately. Her first collection. published in Manchester and London in 1842, begins...
2 hours 55 minutes
