Sue Anderson

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By Ox Team to California - A Narrative of Crossing the Plains in 1860

Travel & Geography

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Lavinia Honeyman Porter - By Ox Team to California - A Narrative of Crossing the Plains in 1860

Imagine a young, twenty-something woman in 1860, reared “in the indolent life of the ordinary Southern girl” (which means she has never learned to cook); married to a professional man who knows “nothing of manual...

Sue Anderson 4 hours 52 minutes

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*Non-fiction

491

Short Nonfiction Collection Vol. 032

Fifteen short nonfiction works in the public domain, independently chosen by the readers. Topics include the history of aeroplanes, political speeches, travel, philosophy, Japan, the United Nations, Congressional...

Craig Campbell and 10 more 4 hours 51 minutes Short Nonfiction Collections

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Travel & Geography

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Edna Brush Perkins - White Heart of Mojave

«The White Heart of the Mojave» recounts a 1920's adventure «in the wind and sun and big spaces» of Death Valley by two independent minded women, Edna Brush Perkins and Charlotte Hannahs Jordan. Both women were early...

Sue Anderson 4 hours 44 minutes

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Animals

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Pliny the Elder - Natural History Volume 2

Naturalis Historia (Latin for «Natural History») is an encyclopedia published circa AD 77-79 by Pliny the Elder. It is one of the largest single works to have survived from the Roman empire to the modern day and...

Chris Danes and 17 more 4 hours 43 minutes The Natural History by Pliny

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Science

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Agnes von Blomberg Bensly - Our Journey to Sinai

Fortress-walled Saint Catherine's monastery on the Sinai peninsula has been a pilgrimage site since its founding by the Byzantine Emperor Justinian in the 6th century. According to tradition, the monastery sits at the...

Sue Anderson 4 hours 41 minutes

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Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 050

Seventeen short nonfiction works in the public domain, independently chosen by the readers. Topics include science and natural history--the donkey, forestry, grape vines, astronomy, historian Agnes Mary Clerke, and...

Melanie T and 8 more 4 hours 35 minutes Short Nonfiction Collections

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Poetry

457

Australian Miscellany

A collection in celebration of 2012 Year of Reading Australia. Readers chose fiction, non fiction and poetry — we only asked that the readings should have some sort of Australian hook. So they can be by an Australian...

Algy Pug and 12 more 4 hours 32 minutes

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Performing Arts

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Harry Houdini - Miracle Mongers, an Exposé

«A complete exposé of the modus operandi of fire eaters, heat resisters, poison eaters, venomous reptile defiers, sword swallowers, human ostriches, strong men, etc.», [by Harry Houdini, from the subtitle].

Peter Eastman and 7 more 4 hours 27 minutes

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Essays & Short Works

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Short Nonfiction Collection Vol. 024

A collection of short nonfiction works in the public domain. The selections included in this collection were independently chosen by the readers, and the topics encompass gardening, military history, humor, climate...

Bob Neufeld and 6 more 4 hours 27 minutes Short Nonfiction Collections

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Essays & Short Works

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Short Nonfiction Collection Vol. 028

A collection of short nonfiction works in the public domain. The selections included in this collection were independently chosen by the readers, and the topics encompass history, slavery, science, education, humor,...

Sue Anderson and 12 more 4 hours 26 minutes Short Nonfiction Collections

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Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 057

Fifteen short nonfiction works in the public domain, independently chosen by the readers. Natural cataclysm is the subject of several readings: the 1899 Alaskan earthquake, which uplifted cliffs at Yakutat Bay 47...

April6090 and 7 more 4 hours 23 minutes Short Nonfiction Collections

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History

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Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca - Journey of Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca

Few stories of shipwreck and survival can equal that of the 16th century Spaniard Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca who, cast ashore near present day (USA) Tampa Bay, Florida, in 1528, survived eight years of hand-to-mouth...

Sue Anderson 4 hours 19 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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