Nature

Lectures on Landscape

by John Ruskin Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.1
Lectures on Landscape presents a thought-provoking exploration of landscape painting through the eyes of John Ruskin, a prominent artist and…

Short Nonfiction Collection

by Various Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.6
A collection of ten short nonfiction works in the public domain. The essays, speeches, news items and reports included in this collection we…

The Bird Study Book

by Thomas Gilbert Pearson Read by J. M. Smallheer 4.8
Do you enjoy bird watching? Would you like to learn a little more about the early conservation efforts to protect wild birds? In the Preface…

In the Wilderness

by Charles Dudley Warner Read by Jessica Zdanowicz 5
Warner’s main theme is how small and often-ridiculous the human being is when exploring in the wilderness. Warner’s love of nature and his c…

South American Jungle Tales

by Horacio Quiroga Read by James K. White 4.8
The stories in South American Jungle Tales center on the relationships between people and the different creatures Quiroga came into contact …

The Heart of the Ancient Wood

by Sir Charles G. D. Roberts and Charles G. D. Roberts Read by czandra 4.3
A woman and her daughter take refuge in a cabin deep in the Canadian forest. This is a tale of survival from the land, friendship and love.…

The Outermost House

by Henry Beston Read by Shelly Weingart 3.8
A Year of Life on the Great Beach of Cape Cod - Summary by subtitle

In New England Fields and Woods

by Rowland E. Robinson Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.1
Born in rural Vermont in 1833, and nearly unknown to today's readers, Rowland Evans Robinson was once one of Vermont's best-known writers. A…

Easy Lessons in Einstein

by Edwin E. Slosson Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.5
Published in 1920, Slosson’s Easy Lessons in Einstein is one of the first popularizations of Einstein’s theory of relativity. This book is m…

House, Garden and Field

by Louis Compton Miall Read by J. M. Smallheer 4.7
"Nature study seeks above all things to develop the earliest rudiments of the scientific discover." L. C. MiallThis book contains…

Eccentricities of the Animal Creation

by John Timbs Read by LibriVox Volunteers
The author has written chapters about various oddities of the animal kingdom, focusing on creatures from the bookworm to the rhinoceros and …

Natural Theology

by William Paley Read by Barry Ganong 4.9
In this early nineteenth-century classic, William Paley assesses how our understanding of nature reflects characteristics of its creator. Fi…

Pan

by Knut Hamsun Read by Kathrine Engan 4.7
Pan tells the story Lieutenant Glahn and his summer in a forest north in Norway. He lives in a hut with his dog Aesop and they spend their d…

Meteorology

by J. G. M'Pherson Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.3
Meteorology by J. G. M'Pherson offers a clear and accessible exploration of the atmospheric phenomena that shape our world. This instruction…

Langstroth on the Hive and the Honey-Bee

by L. L. Langstroth Read by LivelyHive 4.1
Langstroth revolutionized the beekeeping industry by using bee space in his top opened hive. In the summer of 1851 he found that, by leaving…

Dwarf Fruit Trees

by Frank Albert Waugh Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.5
This book is a handbook for the home orchardist. The propagation, pruning, choice of variety, and management of dwarf fruit trees, specifica…

The National Geographic Magazine

by National Geographic Society Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4
National Geographic Magazine Volume 1 Number 2 published in 1889. Topics of articles are:Africa, its Past and FutureReports on:Geography of …

The Outline of Science

by J. Arthur Thomson Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.7
The Outline of Science was written specifically with the man-on-the-street in mind as the target audience. Covering scientific subjects rang…

Labrador Days

by Sir Wilfred Grenfell Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.2
Dive deep into the heart of the Labrador Sea, sharing the rugged lives of fishermen and their indomitable spirit. Wilfred Grenfell, a doctor…

Poems of Nature

by Henry David Thoreau Read by Larry Wilson 5
The fifty poems here brought together under the title ‘Poems of Nature’ are perhaps two-thirds of those which Thoreau preserved. Many of the…

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