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Travels in New Zealand with contributions to the geography, geology, botany, and natural history of that country, Vol. I

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Exploration, Nature, Travel & Geography
Chapter: 39 | Listen: 2

“Let the reader imagine a deep lake of a blue colour, surrounded by verdant hills; in the lake several islets, some showing the bare rock, others covered with shrubs, while on all of them steam issued from a hundred openings between the green foliage without impairing its freshness: on the opposite side a flight of broad steps of the colour of white marble with a rosy tint, and a cascade of boiling water falling over them into the lake!” Such is Ernest Dieffenbach’s description of his first glance of the White Terraces in Lake Rotomahana, see cover image. Johann Karl Ernst Dieffenbach (aka Ernest) traveled to New Zealand between 1839 and 1841 employed by the New Zealand Company as naturalist. He traveled in the Marlborough Sounds at the top of the South Island and extensively throughout the North Island at an early time in European settlement. In Volume I of “Travels in New Zealand” he describes his travels, integrating his observations of the natural world with the progress of colonisation, and a humane account of the Māori people that he met and their culture, settlements and inter-tribal politics. He made an important contribution to the early knowledge of the New Zealand flora and fauna, with his collections eventually being lodged in the British Museum and the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Note: Māori words have been pronounced as spelled in the text, which is occasionally different to modern spelling and pronunciation. (summary by Gail Timmerman-Vaughan) [chương_files]

Canoeing in the Wilderness

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Exploration, Nature
Chapter: 11 | Listen: 4

A highly descriptive and engaging narrative from one of America’s beloved nature writers, this short piece shows well Thoreau’s great love of the early American wilderness. Be transported to the deep woods of Maine and share in both Thoreau’s delight in nature and also his admiration of those others who have a deeper connection with the natural world around them. (Summary by Falassewen) [chương_files]

With Sack and Stock in Alaska

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Exploration, Modern (19th C)
Chapter: 8 | Listen: 7

In 1888, George Broke with Harold Topham and William Williams, made the first exploration of the Alaskan Mt. St. Elias range, including the crossing of the great Malaspina Glacier and an attempt on the S.E. face of Mt. St. Elias itself. The journey is described in the interesting work With Sack and Stock in Alaska, vividly detailing the country visited and the characters met along the way. – Summary by Fritz [chương_files]

Trois mois sous la neige: journal d’un jeune habitant du Jura

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Action & Adventure Fiction
Chapter: 25 | Listen: 1

Un jeune homme pris dans la neige avec son grand-père et un chèvre doit se débrouiller pour survivre l’hiver. A young boy is snowed in with his grandfather and a goat in a summer hut in the Jura mountains. He must use all his resources and develop new ones to have a hope of survival. – Summary by czandra [chương_files]

True Tales of Arctic Heroism in the New World

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Exploration
Chapter: 22 | Listen: 7

The Arctic has always been a fascinating area for us. This is true today just as much as in Adolphus Greely’s time. In 1912, Greely published this volume of notable Arctic explorations and the explorers. The modern reader can follow a very readable account of the successes and failures of these early explorers comfortably from the armchair, and learn a lot of history in the processes. – Summary by Carolin [chương_files]

In the Hands of the Cave-Dwellers

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Action & Adventure Fiction, Historical Fiction
Chapter: 9 | Listen: 5

In the Hands of the Cave-Dwellers is a classic adventure where the hero is an American sailor who saves a young Mexican from thugs. The story spreads to an Indian attack, the loss of the heroine to cave dwellers, her rescue, and the eventual happiness of hero and heroine who have overcome adversity. – Summary by Publisher [chương_files]

Hearts of Three

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Action & Adventure Fiction, Fantasy Fiction
Chapter: 30 | Listen: 6

Francis Morgan, a wealthy heir of industrialist and Wall Street maven Richard Henry Morgan, is a jaded young New Yorker. When his father’s business partner Thomas Regan suggests that Francis take a holiday in Central America, ostensibly to search for the treasure of the Morgans’ legendary ancestor, Francis thinks it’s a splendid idea. But he never suspects what adventures await across the border… – Summary by Goodreads Cast List: Narrator: Lynette Caulkins Francis Morgan: john warren hart Henry Morgan: Benjamin Tucker Leoncia Solano: Krista Zaleski Parker and Priest of the Sun: James R. Hedrick Thomas Regan: John Payton Señor Álvarez Torres and Yi Poon: Wayne Cooke Señor Mariano Vercara è Hijos and Bascom: Greg Giordano Enrico Solano and Lieutenant Parsons: Todd Alesandro Solano: Ted Perkins Martinez Solano, Gendarme, Overseer Ramirez: redrun Alvarado Solano: Andrew Gaunce Ricardo Solano, Juchitán Haciendado: Inkell Solano Maid: Eileen Ellen Solano Servant 1, Trefethen’s Sailor, Carib, Haciendado 3, Caroo, and Newspaper Pedlar: David Purdy Solano Servant 2, Percival, Carib, Old Buccaneer Henry Morgan, Guillermo, Panamanian Judge, Lost Soul, and Canoe Indian: John Kennard Mayan Lad and José, a Mayan youth: Elijah Fisher Captain Trefethen: Max Magnus Carib: Yuqing Pedro Zurita and Police Lt. Burns: Scott Caulkins Rafael and Charlie Tippery: Elsie Selwyn Ignacio and Blind One’s Leader: Joe Bergin Augustino, Capitán Rosaro, and Johnny Pathmore: Bill Mosley Haciendado 2 and Vicente: Major Toast Oil Man and Peter McGill: Archives27 Beleaguered Peon and Bear Broker: Beeswaxcandle The Blind Brigand: Larry Wilson The Blind One’s Daughter: Eliza Old […]

Men of Iron (Version 2 Dramatic Reading)

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Action & Adventure Fiction, Dramatic Readings
Chapter: 35 | Listen: 4

“The year 1400 opened with more than usual peacefulness in England. Only a few months before, Richard II—weak, wicked, and treacherous—had been dethroned, and Henry IV declared King in his stead. But it was only a seeming peacefulness, lasting but for a little while; for though King Henry proved himself a just and a merciful man—as justice and mercy went with the men of iron of those days—and though he did not care to shed blood needlessly, there were many noble families who had been benefited by King Richard during his reign, and who had lost somewhat of their power and prestige from the coming in of the new King. …Their plan had been to fall upon the King and his adherents, and to massacre them during a great tournament, to be held at Oxford. But Henry did not appear at the lists; whereupon, knowing that he had been lodging at Windsor with only a few attendants, the conspirators marched thither against him. In the mean time the King had been warned of the plot, so that, instead of finding him in the royal castle, they discovered through their scouts that he had hurried to London, whence he was even then marching against them at the head of a considerable army. So nothing was left them but flight. Some betook themselves one way, some another; some sought sanctuary here, some there; but one and another, they were all of them caught and killed. The Earl of Kent—one time Duke of […]

Charwoman’s Shadow

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Action & Adventure Fiction, Fantasy Fiction, Romance
Chapter: 30 | Listen: 6

Delightfully imaginative, somewhat similar to Dunsany’s blockbuster fantasy novel, The King Of Elfland’s Daughter (and published just two years after it), this equally entertaining, verbally voluptuous tale brings us in touch with the heraldry, artistry, and superstitions of the bygone Golden Age of Spain; with the magical arts of ancient times– alchemy, wizardry, potions, forest creatures that go bump in the night, quests for esoteric knowledge, use of the Philosopher’s Stone, and the Catholic church’s war against the ‘Black Art”. Above all, Dunsany explores the many mysterious properties of shadows, and warns what havoc might befall you if you lose yours. Published in 1926. (Summary by Michele Fry) [chương_files]

Romance of Polar Exploration

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Exploration
Chapter: 22 | Listen: 6

While stories of the Polar explorers and their efforts to reach the Poles have been told again and again, the constant renewal of expeditions adds, every year, fresh incidents to the record, until it may almost be said that the fascination of the frozen regions is as inexhaustible as the list of Polar heroes is illimitable. Nor is the interest confined solely to the achievement of modern explorers. However great the results of their exertions may be, the fact that, in spite of all the advantages conferred by recent scientific discovery and modern appliances, the explorers of to-day have failed to penetrate the uttermost secrets of the worlds of ice, renders more impressively heroic the struggles of the earlier travellers, whose equipment, viewed in comparison with that of modern man, was apparently so inadequate and often inappropriate. No series of Polar adventure stories would be complete without a prominent place being given to the earlier explorers, and especially to that British hero, Franklin, whose name is so inseparably associated with the history of Arctic exploration. The account of his daring voyages and of his tragic end, at the moment of victory, has already been given in many a form; but the tale is one which will stand re-telling for generations yet to come. In the present instance it has been of necessity briefly written, but in such a manner as will, it is hoped, without loss of interest, render clear a comparison of the conditions under which he and his […]