Nature

Short Nonfiction Collection

by Various Read by LibriVox Volunteers
Sixteen short nonfiction works in the public domain, independently chosen by the readers. Topics include Science and Exploration--a tribute …

Anatomy of the Human Body

by Henry Gray Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.4
Anatomy of the Human Body by Henry Gray is a foundational text in the field of anatomy, first published in 1858 and continuously updated thr…

Titan Of Chasms

by Charles F. Lummis Read by David Wales 4.5
This is a 1906 collection of three essays by men famously associated with The Grand Canyon: Charles A. Higgins, John Wesley Powell, and Cha…

Nature Near Home and Other Papers

by John Burroughs Read by Edith Phern 4.2
Nature Near Home is one of many books on natural history by John Burroughs. It is full of simple observations about rural scenes and charmin…

The Living Animals of the World

by Various Read by LibriVox Volunteers 5
The Living Animals of the Natural World, subtitled "a popular Natural History", proposed to present the most updated version of th…

Over Prairie Trails

by Frederick Philip Grove Read by Bruce Pirie 3.8
When Frederick Philip Grove settled in a remote area of Manitoba in the early years of the 20th century, he found work teaching in a school …

Flowers and Ferns in their Haunts

by Mabel Osgood Wright Read by Bellona Times 4.8
Flowers and Ferns in their Haunts invites listeners on a serene exploration of the New England coastal countryside, as seen through the eyes…

Practical Forestry in the Pacific Northwest

by Edward Tyson Allen Read by KHand 4
Written by a forester, this book aims to educate people on the importance of maintaining forests and those events which pose a danger to for…

Submerged Forests

by Clement Reid Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.2
Submerged Forests, a volume in the Cambridge Manuals of Science and Literature series, is a study of the land beneath the coastal areas and …

Idylls Of The Sea

by Frank Thomas Bullen Read by David Wales 4.2
In these little sketches [1899] of a few out of the innumerable multitude of ways in which the sea has spoken to me during my long acquainta…

Short Nonfiction Collection

by Various Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4
Twenty short nonfiction works in the public domain, independently chosen by the readers. Topics include History--Jocelyn de Brakelond's 13th…

Literary Pilgrimages of a Naturalist

by Winthrop Packard Read by LibriVox Volunteers 5
Noted American Naturalist, Winthrop Packard, who gave us such titles as “Woodland Pastures,” “Wood Wanderings,” and “Wildwood Ways,” now tak…

A Year with the Birds

by W. Warde Fowler Read by Owlivia 4.2
William Warde Fowler was a true polymath; although his early studies focused on natural history, he became a well-known authority on the his…

Insect Stories

by Vernon Kellogg Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.6
These 13 essays explore the fascinating world of insects all around us. Vernon Kellogg, an eminent entomologist and natural story teller, an…

The Passenger Pigeon

by William B. Mershon Read by Maria Kasper 4.9
"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…

Half Hours With the Lower Animals

by Charles Holder Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.8
This book is devoted to the study of invertebrate animals. While most people associate the word "animal" with fish, amphibians, re…

Slovenly Betsy

by Heinrich Hoffmann Read by LibriVox Volunteers 5
Hienrich Hoffmann was a German psychiatrist and doctor. He had written poetry and sketches for his son, and was persuaded to have a collecti…

A Florida Sketch-Book

by Bradford Torrey Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.6
A Florida Sketch-Book invites listeners into the vibrant world of late-19th century Florida through the keen observations of naturalist Brad…

A-Birding on a Bronco

by Florence A. Merriam and Florence A. Merriam Bailey Read by J. M. Smallheer 4.5
Florence Augusta Merriam Bailey was an American ornithologist and nature writer. She started observing bird behavior at a time when most bir…

In the Wilderness

by Charles Dudley Warner Read by Zach Hoyt 3
These eight essays about Charles Dudley Warner’s visit to the Adirondacks cover a broad range of topics, all with more or less of his dry hu…

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