David Wales
Red Men And White
These eight stories are made from our Western Frontier as it was in a past as near as yesterday and almost as by-gone as the Revolution; so …
The Good Soldier; A Selection Of Soldiers' Letters, 1914-1918
“Here are boys, all sorts of boys: French, English, Italian, American… These are soldiers’ letters written home. But reading, one finds t…
Famous Adventures And Prison Escapes Of The Civil War
Seven narratives published in the late nineteenth century and assembled in this 1913 collection. - Summary by david wales
The Bomb: The 1945 Test of the First Atomic Bomb
These two publications put out by the U.S. government are about the Trinity site in New Mexico where in 1945 the first atomic bomb was teste…
The Times' Red Cross Story Book By Famous Novelists Serving In His Majesty's Forces
These eighteen stories were published in 1915, in the midst of World War I. "Published For The Times' Fund For The Sick And Wounded&qu…
Antietam National Battlefield, Maryland
The American Civil War battle at Antietam, Maryland,(called Sharpsburg by the Confederacy) on 17 September 1862, has been called the bloodie…
Christmas Every Day and Other Stories Told for Children
Christmas Every Day invites listeners into a whimsical world where the spirit of Christmas is celebrated in five enchanting stories. Narrate…
A Shepherd's Life; Impressions Of The South Wiltshire Downs
Hudson wrote this classic work in 1910; it is admiringly mentioned by many other writers. It focuses on the memories of a head shepherd, Ca…
Over The Rocky Mountains To Alaska
This 1899 travelogue is by one of the era’s most popular travel writers. A peek in how travel used to be. - Summary by David Wales
The Wheel of Time
Fanny Knocker is a very, very plain young woman. She is introduced to the extremely handsome, thoroughly impoverished, younger son of an old…
Izaak Walton's Lives of John Donne, Henry Wotton, Richard Hooker and George Herbert
The full title of Walton's book of short biographies is, Lives of John Donne, Henry Wotton, Rich'd Hooker, George Herbert, &C. Sir Henry…
A Touch of the Sun and Other Stories
A Touch of the Sun presents a collection of four evocative short stories by Mary Hallock Foote, an author renowned for her vivid portrayals …
Modern Essays
Thirty three essays by more or less well-known authors of Britain, the United States, and Canada, each fronted by an introductory paragraph.…
Among Typhoons And Pirate Craft
Anderson served as third officer aboard the Eamont. Eamont was an opium clipper built in Cowes. Eamont was involved in the opening of Japan …
The Last Three Soldiers
What if the Confederacy had won the American Civil War? It’s July 1864 and three oh-so-young Union troopers are assigned to a mountaintop in…
The Measure Of A Man; A Tale Of The Big Woods
The Measure Of A Man invites listeners into the rugged world of lumberjacks, where the strength of character is as vital as physical prowess…
The Crimson Gardenia And Other Tales Of Adventure
Published in 1916, this book collects eleven stories originally published in several different magazines. Beach’s adventure stories were im…
Cosmos: A Sketch of a Physical Description of The Universe: Introduction
Friedrich Wilhelm Heinrich Alexander von Humboldt was a Prussian geographer, naturalist, explorer, and influential proponent of romantic phi…
Starlight Ranch And Other Stories Of Army Life On The Frontier
Starlight Ranch offers a vivid glimpse into the life of the United States Army during the mid to late 19th century through a collection of f…
Christmas Eve and Christmas Day
Christmas Eve and Christmas Day by Edward Everett Hale is a heartwarming collection of ten short stories that capture the spirit of the holi…