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01b - Chapter 1 beginning with First View: The Bridal Veil

In The Yosemite

Read by Carol Goode


John Muir


John Muir's adventure guide for the Yosemite Valley.

ONE HUNDRED SIMPLE FISH SAUCES

In How to Cook Fish

Read by Carol Goode


Olive Green and Myrtle Reed


Olive Green is the pseudonym for the prolific late 19th Century/early 20th Century author, Myrtle Reed. She wrote over thirty-three books an…

18-3 - Tahiti and New Zealand

In The Voyage of the Beagle

Read by Carol Goode


Charles Darwin


The book, also known as Darwin's Journal of Researches, is a vivid and exciting travel memoir as well as a detailed scientific field journal…

The Story of the Old Man Who Made Withered Trees to Flower

In Japanese Fairy Tales

Read by Carol Goode


Yei Theodora Ozaki


First published in 1908, this is a book of "beautiful legends and fairy tales of Japan" that were collected, translated and retold…

The Untroubled Mind

Read by Carol Box


Herbert J. Hall


A very wise physician has said that “every illness has two parts—what it is, and what the patient thinks about it.” What the patient thinks …

The Old-Fashioned Fairy Book

Read by Carol Box


Constance Cary Harrison


"And now, mamma, until your tea is ready, we know what you must do," said the children, in a breath. "Tell us a story—a 'real…

Bill the Conqueror

Read by Carol Pelster


P. G. Wodehouse


Hailed as one of the funniest writers of the 20th century, P. G. Wodehouse cheerfully radiates humor that is both sophisticated and popular.…

Indian Boyhood

Read by Carol Pelster


Charles Alexander Eastman


Indian Boyhood is a lively and appealing first-person recounting of the life of a Sioux child in the last days of the tribe's "wild&quo…

The Baby's Songbook

Read by Carol Stripling


Walter Crane


This is a collection of 14 songs chosen from Walter Crane's "The Baby's Opera" and "The Baby's Bouquet" containing class…

Callista

Read by Carol Pelster


John Henry Newman


Callista, A Tale of the Third Century, was written by John Henry Newman, who was a scholarly and personable Anglican theologian who became a…

The Lion's Skin

Read by Carol Pelster


Rafael Sabatini


Justin Caryll was an unwilling hero: an unwilling plotter of revenge, an unwilling spy and an unwilling pursuer of the woman he loves. Justi…

By What Authority?

Read by Carol Pelster


Robert Hugh Benson


Two wealthy families are neighbors in Elizabethan England; one is staunchly Catholic and the other is devoutly Protestant. The attractive yo…

Ruggles of Red Gap

Read by Carol Pelster


Harry Leon Wilson


A stuffy class-conscious gentleman's valet is transplanted to the rough uncivilized American northwest, where the rubes and social climbers …

Eleven Years in the Rocky Mountains and Life on the Frontier

Read by Carol Pelster


Frances A. Fuller Victor


This lively book follows the adventures of mountain man Joe Meek, from his joining the Rocky Mountain Fur Company trapping expedition in the…

Death Comes for the Archbishop

Read by Carol Pelster


Willa Cather


Willa Cather's "Death Comes for the Archbishop" is a historical novel set in New Mexico in the mid-19th century. The book follows …

The Life and Times of Kateri Tekakwitha, The Lily of the Mohawks

Read by Carol Pelster


Ellen Walworth


Saint Kateri Tekakwitha's lifespan of only about 24 years was spent in utter humility and penitence. In spite of her natural diffidence, she…

Across the Plains in 1844

Read by Carol Pelster


Catherine Sager Pringle


The Sager family, including seven children, set out on the Oregon trail in 1844. Accidents and disease made it a dangerous trip, and both …

The Lances of Lynwood

Read by Carol Pelster


Charlotte Mary Yonge


The Lances of Lynwood brings to life the high days of knighthood and chivalry in the 14th century during the Hundred Years War, in which the…