Nature
- Explorations in Nature and Travel
- Explorations in Nature and Science
- Nature's Poetic Voices
- Essays on Nature and Reflection
- Nature's Tales for Young Explorers
Short Nonfiction Collection
A collection of eleven short nonfiction works in the public domain. The items included in this collection were independently selected by the…
Beaches
This is the 40th Coffee Break Collection, in which Librivox readers select and read stories or poems, fiction or non-fiction pieces of fifte…
Nature's Miracles
Nature's Miracles invites listeners into the fascinating world of science and technology through accessible discussions that demystify compl…
Crops and Methods for Soil Improvement
This book is not a technical treatise and is designed only to point out the plain, every-day facts in the natural scheme of making and keepi…
The National Geographic Magazine
National Geographic Magazine Volume 1 Number 1 published in 1889. Topics of articles are:Announcement by the National Geographic SocietyIntr…
Understanding Climatic Change
Understanding Climatic Change - A Program for Action is a 1975 report by the US Committee for the Global Atmospheric Research Program. Alrea…
The Hurricane Hunters
This 1955 book by an acknowledged authority is an absorbing account of meteorology before the advent of weather satellites. “This is the li…
Walden
Walden (first published as Walden; or, Life in the Woods) is an American book written by noted transcendentalist Henry David Thoreau, a refl…
Poems of Nature
The fifty poems here brought together under the title ‘Poems of Nature’ are perhaps two-thirds of those which Thoreau preserved. Many of the…
The Natural History
Naturalis Historia (Latin for "Natural History") is an encyclopedia published circa AD 77-79 by Pliny the Elder. It is one of the …
Through Glacier Park
This is about a three-hundred mile trip across the Rocky Mountains on horseback with Howard Eaton. It is about fishing, and cool nights arou…
The Night The Mountain Fell
A severe earthquake, centered in the vacation area of West Yellowstone, Montana, shook the ground and its inhabitants and visitors on August…
Off the Rocks
William Grenfell was sent to Newfoundland by the Royal National Mission to Deep-Sea Fishermen, an organization which provided medical and sp…
Our Southern Highlanders
Our Southern Highlanders is a memoir of the Pennsylvania-born writer and librarian Horace Kephart, documenting his experiences and cultural …
The Formation of Vegetable Moulds through the Action of Worms
In this insightful work, Charles Darwin explores the vital role of earthworms in the formation of soil and the broader implications for agri…
Treatise on Light
Treatise on Light was published in 1690 and is probably the largest scientific volume on light published before Newton's Opticks. The book e…
Squirrels and Other Fur-bearers
Squirrels and other Fur-Bearers, a collection of essays by American naturalist and essayist, John Burroughs, provides fascinating insight in…
A Year with the Birds
William Warde Fowler was a true polymath; although his early studies focused on natural history, he became a well-known authority on the his…
First Successful Ascent of Mt. Rainier
Hazard Stevens and P.B. Van Trump, aided by the Indian guide Sluiskin, made the first documented successful ascent of Mt. Rainier on August …
The Passenger Pigeon
"For the last three years I have spent most of my leisure time in collecting as much material as possible which might help to throw lig…