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Canoes, Songs, Slavery

In A Captivity of Nearly Three Years Among the Savages of Nootka Sound

Read by Sue Anderson


John R. Jewitt


John Jewitt (1783-1821), a blacksmith by trade, spent the years 1803-1806 as a slave among the Nuu-chah-nulth people of Nootka Sound, off t…

To Lesbia - Read by MLA

In To Lesbia

Read by Mary Anderson


Caius Valerius Catullus and Gaius Valerius Catullus


LibriVox volunteers bring you 13 different recordings of To Lesbia by Caius Valerius Catullus (translation by Richard Burton.) This was the …

One of the Fleetest

In Wilderness Babies

Read by Wayne Anderson


Julia Augusta Schwartz


This book tells the stories of some of the baby mammals of the wilderness,—how they grow and learn day by day to take care of themselves. In…

Driving the Lincoln Highway, Chicago to Rochelle, Illinois, in 1915

In Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 036

Read by Sue Anderson


Emily Post


Eighteen short nonfiction works in the public domain, independently chosen by the readers. Topics include the discovery of X-rays, earthquak…

The Eiffel Tower, an Excerpt from Discoveries and Inventions of the Nineteenth …

In LibriVox 19th Anniversary Collection

Read by Sue Anderson


Robert Warne Routledge


"LibriVox is a hope, an experiment, and a question: can the net harness a bunch of volunteers to bring books in the public domain to li…

Yellowstone Expedition of 1871

In Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 093

Read by Sue Anderson


United States Geological Survey


"Flirting is more serious than talking nonsense and not so serious as making love" was journalist Eliza Lynn Linton's take on rela…

A Land without Ruins - Read by RLA

In A Land without Ruins

Read by Ruth Anderson


Abram Joseph Ryan


LibriVox volunteers bring you 14 recordings of A Land without Ruins by Abram Joseph Ryan.This was the Weekly Poetry project for April 8, 20…

Chicago Race Riots of 1919, Coroner's Official Report

In Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 078

Read by Sue Anderson


Cook County Coroner


Twenty short nonfiction works, chosen by the readers. "That thing up there on the stand with the American flag on top is a machine gun,…

THE TAFFY PULL

In Raggedy Andy Stories

Read by Mary Anderson


John B. Gruelle and Johnny Gruelle


Raggedy Ann is a fictional character created by writer Johnny Gruelle (1880–1938) in a series of books he wrote and illustrated for young ch…

1 - My Mammy's Soup; The Whiskey Barrel

In Reminiscences of a Southern Hospital, by Its Matron

Read by Sue Anderson


Phoebe Yates Pember


Phoebe Yates Pember served as a matron in the Confederate Chimborazo military hospital in Richmond, Virginia, during the Civil War, overseei…

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