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The Story of a New Zealand River

Read by Gail Timmerman Vaughan


Jane Mander


"This is the land of the lost, one of those happy spots where no questions are asked. Of course, the fact of a person's being here is u…

With the Empress Dowager of China

Read by Gail Timmerman Vaughan


Katharine Carl


Through the eyes of an artist, With the Empress Dowager of China provides a glimpse of life in the Chinese Imperial Court, unseen by any oth…

Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the…

Read by Gail Timmerman Vaughan


Aimé Bonpland, Alexander von Humboldt and Alexander Von Humboldt


Volume 3, the final volume of the “Personal Narrative”, records the travels of Alexander von Humboldt and the botanist Aimé Bonpland …

Travels in New Zealand with contributions to the geography, geology, botany, an…

Read by Gail Timmerman Vaughan


Ernst Dieffenbach


“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, o…

Pioneer work in the Alps of New Zealand; a record of the first exploration of t…

Read by Gail Timmerman Vaughan


Arthur Paul Harper


“Situated as we were at Camp 2, in fine rata bush, with a luxuriant undergrowth of tree-ferns and other plants - which in England would be c…

Station Amusements in New Zealand

Read by Gail Timmerman Vaughan


Mary Anne Barker


Station Amusements in New Zealand is a collection of vignettes about life on a sheep station (high country farm) in colonial New Zealand dur…

A First Year in Canterbury Settlement

Read by Gail Timmerman Vaughan


Samuel Butler


Samuel Butler travelled to the South Island of New Zealand in 1860, landing at Lyttleton, the main port for the Canterbury Settlement. Altho…

The KEA: a New Zealand problem

Read by Gail Timmerman Vaughan


George Reginald Marriner


The kea (Nestor notabilis) is the world's only alpine parrot, and is endemic to the South Island of New Zealand. Although this large parrot …

Industrial Organisation, continued: The Concentration of Specialised Industries

In Principles of Economics, Book 4: The Agents of Production

Read by timallenpro2000


Alfred Marshall


Principles of Economics was a leading economics textbook of Alfred Marshall (1842-1924), first published in 1890. Marshall began writing the…

Lohengrin zu Brabant

In Märchen 4

Read by Tim


grimm, Jacob & Wilhelm Grimm and Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm


Anfang des 19. Jahrhunderts begannen die Brüder Jacob und Wilhelm Grimm, traditionelle, bisher vor allem mündlich weitergegebene E…

An Answer to the Jews, Chapters 1-7

In The Shorter Works of Tertullian Volume 2

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Tertullian


In the latter part of the second and in the former part of the third century there flourished at Carthage the famous Tertullian, the first L…

Study Skills

Read by Sally LePage, Liz Timoney White, Inés Dawson and Luke Ogilvie-Thomson


Sally LePage, Liz Timoney White, Inés Dawson and Luke Ogilvie-Thomson


University of Oxford Podcasts

Chapter I

In The Book of Jubilees

Read by timetravel718


Anonymoustranslated Byrobert Charles


The Book of Jubilees, sometimes called Lesser Genesis (Leptogenesis), is an ancient Jewish religious work of 50 chapters, considered canonic…

Psalm 99 Part 1

In Expositions on the Book of Psalms (Vol. 4 - Psalms 76-101)

Read by timdebe


Saint Augustine of Hippo


These sermons on the Psalms of the Holy Prophet and King David are as poetic as the Psalms themselves. They are well-suited for inspirationa…

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