Exploration
In the Andamans and Nicobars
Read by dc
C. Boden Kloss
A glimpse of the indigenous people, rich flora and fauna and the beauty of the islands as recorded by a zoologist, which are fast depleting …
Los Lusíadas
Read by Mario Pineda
Luís Vaz de Camões
¿Qué puede ser mejor que la descripción de viajes de exploración a tierras desconocidas escrito en verso? Esta c…
The Northward Course of Empire
Read by Leon Harvey
Vilhjalmur Stefansson
The Northward Course of Empire was written to promote the idea of a new wave of civil expansion into the Arctic Circle, a region generally c…
The Third Voyage of James Cook, Volume 2
Read by David Cole
James Cook
Only months after his return from his mammoth Second Voyage, the Admiralty ordered Cook back to the Pacific, ostensibly to return Omai, a yo…
A Rival of the Yosemite – The Cañon of the south fork of King’s River, Californ…
Read by Michele Fry
John Muir
This article, a walking tour of the Cañon including many charcoal illustrations, was published in the Century Illlustrated Monthly Ma…
Collections of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin Vol 1
Read by Ted Lienhart
Lyman Copeland Draper
The Wisconsin Historical Society was founded in 1846, even before Wisconsin achieved U.S. statehood. The Secretary, Lyman Draper, began in …