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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…

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

In Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 036

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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

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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

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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…

Chicago Race Riots of 1919, Coroner's Official Report

In Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 078

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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,…

1 - My Mammy's Soup; The Whiskey Barrel

In Reminiscences of a Southern Hospital, by Its Matron

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Phoebe Yates Pember


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

In Mammoth Cave, 1894

In Short Nonfiction Collection Vol. 030

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E .I. du Pont de Nemours & Company and John Burroughs


Twenty short nonfiction works in the public domain, independently chosen by the readers. Topics include botany, dreams, farming, history, li…

Letter from William Blake to Mr. Butts, 16th August, 1803

In Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 075

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William Blake


Twenty short nonfiction works chosen by the readers. Is the sound of a dripping faucet music? According to Aldous Huxley, "The music of…

07 - The Rock River, CHAPTER V. Grand Detour Folks

In Historic Waterways

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Reuben Gold Thwaites


Historic Waterways, Six Hundred Miles of Canoeing down the Rock, Fox and Wisconsin Rivers.This volume is the record of six hundred miles of …

John Singer Sargent

In Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 062

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Henry James


Fifteen short nonfiction works in the public domain, independently chosen by the readers. Volume 62 features several introspective essays: b…

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