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06/09/2024
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Month on the Norfolk Broads

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Chapter: 14 | Listen: 4

Back in the late 1880s, Walter Rye and a number of friends accompanied by an American couple (who were researching the history of their Norfolk ancestry), took a holiday on the Norfolk Broads and enjoyed a leisurely tour around the waterways of this unique part of Eastern England.This book documents some of the highlights of their trip on board the wherry Zöe and the hybrid wherry/cutter Lotus, as they sailed and explored many places of interest of the region. Although born in London, Walter Rye’s family came from Norfolk, a county that he moved back to early in his life. He had a lifelong interest in the Broads region and was an acknowledged expert antiquarian in all aspects of Norfolk history. Interested but haven’t got a whole month to spare? Well, why not jump aboard anyway and listen in for a few short hours as “the poet, the athlete, the liar and the antiquary”, our American visitors and Mr Rye hoist their sails and head out to see what they can discover on their waterborne cruise. – Summary by TND     [chương_files]  

06/09/2024
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National Geographic Magazine Vol. 09 – 09. September 1898

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The National Geographic Magazine, an illustrated monthly, Vol IX, September 1898. It includes the following articles: The Growth of the United States, by W J McGee Bitter Root Forest Reserve, by Richard U. Goode Atlantic Estuarine Tides, by Mark S. W. Jefferson The Forest Conditions and Standing Timber of the State of Washington, by Henry Gannett American Association for the Advancement of Science, by John Hyde     [chương_files]  

06/09/2024
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National Geographic Magazine Vol. 09 – 10. October 1898

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The National Geographic Magazine, an illustrated monthly, Vol IX, October 1898. It includes the following articles: Lake Chelan, by Henky Gannett Frederic W. Putnam, by John Hydic Mesa Verde, by F. H. Newell The Geospheres, by W J McGee Miscellanea     [chương_files]  

06/09/2024
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National Geographic Magazine Vol. 10 – 05. May 1899

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The National Geographic Magazine, an illustrated monthly, Vol X, May 1899. It includes the following articles: The Redwood Forest of the Pacific Coast, by Henry Gannett Is Climatic Aridity Impending on the Pacific Slope? by J. B. Leiberg Professor O. C. Marsh, by W. J McGee The Area of the Philippines, by George Davidson The Recent Ascent of Itambe, by J. C. Branner     [chương_files]  

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National Geographic Magazine Vol. 10 – 02. February 1899

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Chapter: 8 | Listen: 5

The National Geographic Magazine, an illustrated monthly, Vol X, February 1899. It includes the following articles: The Economic Condition of the Philippines by Max L. Tornow Manila and the Philippines by Major A. Falkner Von Sonnenburg     [chương_files]  

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National Geographic Magazine Vol. 10 – 03. March 1899

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The National Geographic Magazine, an illustrated monthly, Vol X, March 1899. It includes the following articles: The Original Territory of the United States, by Hon. David J. Hill Porto Rico, by Prof. Robert T. Hill     [chương_files]  

06/09/2024
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Jenseit des Tweed

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Fontanes Bericht über seine Reise nach Schottland mit seinem Freund Bernhard von Lepel. In dem für Fontane charakteristischen Stil umfasst die Erzählung eine Mischung aus Beschreibungen von Land und Leuten, Volksgeschichten und geschichtlichen Ereignissen. Sie ist gleichzeitig eine Hommage an den von ihm verehrten Sir Walter Scott.” (Summary by RiDi)     [chương_files]  

05/09/2024
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Guide to the Lakes

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Chapter: 14 | Listen: 1

In the late eighteenth century, English writers discovered the landscape, not only in the paintings of Claude Lorrain, Nicolas Poussin and Salvator Rosa, but also as a place to be visited and viewed as if it were a picture. No part of England was more discovered in this period than the Lake District, which was transformed over the course of the next century from a remote region of farmland and inaccessible hills into a wild and romantic landscape of picturesque lake and mountain, described in works such as Thomas West’s A guide to the Lakes (1778). West’s predecessors – Thomas Gray, Arthur Young, Thomas Pennant and William Hutchinson –had merely passed through the Lakes. West, a resident of the Lakes, took the reader on a tour of the district as a whole, visiting all the lakes, with the sole exception of Wastwater. A devotee of the Claude glass – a convex, tinted mirror in which the landscape appears as it might in a painting by Lorrain – West follows and improves upon Gray’s technique of identifying ‘stations’ from which the landscape would appear at its most picturesque. West’s guide remains something of a hybrid, however, with its lengthy antiquarian descriptions of the surrounding towns of Lancaster, Penrith and Kendal. – Summary by Phil Benson     [chương_files]  

05/09/2024
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Two Years in Oregon

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Wallis Nash was a British lawyer who visited Oregon and later emigrated with his family. His account covers a great breadth of description of the state of Oregon from natural history to business and climate, from the coast through the great Willamette Valley to the reaches of central and eastern Oregon. It is not travelogue but a comprehensive description in the most positive light to encourage others to follow his example to settle in the state of Oregon, so full of promise. – Summary by Larry Wilson Prooflisteners for this project: CS , Larry Wilson & Wayne Cooke     [chương_files]  

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National Geographic Magazine Vol. 09 – 05. May 1898

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The National Geographic Magazine, an illustrated monthly, Vol IX, May 1898, the Cuba Number. It includes the following articles: Cuba, by Robert T. Hill The Florida Coast Line Canal The Origin of West India Bird Life, by Frank M. Chapman Trade of the United States with Cuba, by John Hyde Captain Charles D. Sigsbee, U. S. N., by Henry Gannett Reception to Captain C. D. Sigsbee, U. S. N., by John Hyde Geographic Literature – Geographic Serials     [chương_files]