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A Voyage Towards the South Pole and Round the World Volume 1

Read by David Cole

James Cook

Having, on his first voyage, discovered Australia, Cook still had to contend with those who maintained that the Terra Australians Incognita …

The First Voyage of James Cook Volume 1

Read by David Cole

James Cook

In May 1768, the Admiralty commissioned the 39-year old Cook to command a scientific voyage to the Pacific Ocean to observe and record the 1…

The First Voyage of James Cook Volume 2

Read by David Cole

James Cook

Following his discovery and circumnavigation of New Zealand recorded in Volume 1, Cook sailed westwards to Australia, whose east coast was a…

A Voyage Towards the South Pole and Round the World Volume 2

Read by David Cole

James Cook

Having disproved the myth of Terra Australis Incognita (The unknown Southern Continent), Cook returns to New Zealand via the Friendly Island…

The Third Voyage of James Cook, Volume 1

Read by David Cole

James Cook

Only months after his return from his mammoth Second Voyage, the Admiralty ordered Cook back to the Pacific, ostensibly to return Omai, a yo…

Demographic Trends and Problems of the Modern World

Read by David Coleman

David Coleman

University of Oxford Podcasts

34 - The Absurdity of Law - Reflections of a Juryman

In Resurrection, Book 1

Read by David Cole

Leo Tolstoy, translated by Louise Maude and Leo Tolstoy

Resurrection is the last of Tolstoy's major fiction works published in his lifetime. Tolstoy intended the novel as an exposition of injustic…

Bk 19 Chapters 01-05

In Le Morte d'Arthur - Vol. 2

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Sir Thomas Malory

Le Morte d’Arthur (spelled Le Morte Darthur in the first printing and also in some modern editions, Middle French for la mort d’Arthur, “the…