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09/09/2024

Thousand Mile Walk to the Gulf

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Muir was a preservationist and naturalist. His activism helped to preserve the Yosemite Valley, Sequoia National Park and other wilderness areas. The Sierra Club, which he founded, is now one of the most important conservation organizations in the United States. In early March 1867, Muir was injured while working as a sawyer in a factory that made wagon wheels: a tool he was using slipped and struck him in the eye. This accident changed the course of his life. He was confined to a darkened room for six weeks, worried whether he’d ever regain his sight. When he did, “he saw the world—and his purpose—in a new light,” writes Marquis. Muir later wrote, “This affliction has driven me to the sweet fields. God has to nearly kill us sometimes, to teach us lessons.” From that point on, he determined to “be true to myself” and follow his dream of exploration and study of plants. A Thousand Mile Walk to the Gulf recounts Muir’s walk of about 1,000 miles (1,600 km) from Indiana to Florida. He had no specific route chosen, except to go by the “wildest, leafiest, and least trodden way I could find.” This journal is the earliest of Muir’s writings and autobiographically bridges the period between The Story of my Boyhood and Youth and My First Summer in the Sierra.     [chương_files]  

09/09/2024

Land of the Broads

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The Broads area of Norfolk and Suffolk is in the East Anglian region of England. It is the location of Britain’s third largest inland waterway system and largest protected wetland area. Many examples of rare flora and fauna are found only in this unique location which has also been designated as a national park. This book: The Land of the Broads, is a practical guide to the extensive but (at one time), little-known district of the Broads of Norfolk and Suffolk. Written (and now narrated) for the use of all who take an interest in one of the Quaintest and most Old-World parts of England, either from an Archaeological, Historical, Picturesque, or Sporting point of view. So, join me if you will, on another auditory cruise around these unique waterways through expansive landscapes under wide open skies.     [chương_files]  

09/09/2024
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Thrilling Narratives of Mutiny, Murder and Piracy

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A collection of true stories of the high seas, from the nineteenth century. Shipwrecks, mutiny, life and death decision-making — all far from home, while pitting themselves against the elements. The romance of the seafaring life is depicted in its brutal reality. – Summary by Lynne Thompson     [chương_files]  

08/09/2024
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Scenes in Europe, for the Amusement and Instruction of Little Tarry-at-Home Travellers

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In this little volume, Isaac Taylor takes us on a tour of Europe, anno 1824. We travel once around the entire continent, starting in England, through Scandinavia, Russia, down to Turkey, over the Alps, France, Spain, and back to England. The tour is made with poems and prose, and should be of interest to all listeners. – Summary by Carolin     [chương_files]  

08/09/2024

Rambles Beyond Railways; or, Notes in Cornwall taken A-foot

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Two travellers, the writer of this book, and an artist friend who is the companion of his ramble, explored Cornwall together, on foot in the summer-time of the year eighteen hundred and fifty. They accomplished their initiation into the process of walking under a knapsack, with the most complete and encouraging success. This is a collection of Collins’ observations along the way. [edited summary drawn from the author’s first chapter] – Summary by Owlivia     [chương_files]  

08/09/2024
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National Geographic Magazine Vol. 10 – 10. October 1899

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The National Geographic Magazine, an illustrated monthly, Vol X, October 1899. It includes the following articles: Life on a Yukon Trail, by Alfred P. Dennis Tides of Chesapeake Bay, by E. D. Preston The Relation of Forests and Forest Fires, by Gifford Pinchot Variations in Lake Levels and Atmospheric Precipitation, by A. J. Henry Calculations of Population in June, 1900, by Henry Farquhar The Definite Location of Bouvet Island, by O. H. Tittmann Peary’s Work and Prospects, by H. L. Bridgman Peary’s Explorations in 1898-1899 The California and Nevada Boundary Railroads and Canals along with Geographic Literature and Miscellanea     [chương_files]  

08/09/2024

Saunterings In And About London

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A witty 1853 travelogue by a cultured German for his countrymen. “…for I did not write for an English public, nor did I ever pretend to popularity in England. The “SAUNTERINGS” were intended for the profit and amusement of my German countrymen; and I must say I was not a little pleased and surprised with the very flattering reception which my book experienced at the hands of the English critics. Their favourable opinion, which they so emphatically and—I am selfish enough to go the whole length of the word—so ably expressed, has probably caused the production of the book in an English dress.” ( Book Preface and david wales)     [chương_files]  

08/09/2024
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National Geographic Magazine Vol. 10 – 11. November 1899

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The National Geographic Magazine, an illustrated monthly, Vol X, November 1899. It includes the following articles: The Alaskan Boundary, by Hon John W. Foster Life on a Yukon Trail, by Alfred Pierce Dennis The Rational Element in Geography, by William M. Davis Edward Orton, LL.D. National Geographic Society, by Frederick Haynes Newell along with Geographic Literature and Miscellanea     [chương_files]  

08/09/2024
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Ghost Camp

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Englishman Valentine Blount is traveling in Australia, looking for his fortune. He meets up with John Carter, a bushman known locally as Little River Jack, who acts as his guide. They come across an abandoned camp – what is the story behind it? Whose camp was it? Why did they leave? – Summary by Lynne Thompson     [chương_files]  

08/09/2024
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British Isles and the Baltic States

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Another in a long series by the author focusing on the British Isles and a few chapters on Germany, Poland and other countries of the Baltic region. Chapters include information on religion, their economies, citizens and industry in the early 1920’s. (Summary by Betty B)     [chương_files]