Nature Fiction

Ikom Folk Stories from Southern Nigeria

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Elphinstone Dayrell


Elphinstone Daryell [1869-1917] was a British colonial administrator in southern Nigeria who had an interest in anthropology and folklore. T…

Where the Pelican Builds

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Mary Hannay Foott


Mary Hannay Foott was an Australian poet and editor who is best remembered for the poem Where the pelican builds.

The End of Summer

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Madison Cawein


Cawein's poetry allied his love of nature with a devotion to earlier English and European literature, mythology, and classical allusion. - S…

Insects

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John Clare


John Clare was an English poet, the son of a farm labourer, who came to be known for his celebratory representations of the English countrys…

One and Two

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Will Carleton


This was the Fortnightly Poetry for November 10, 2013.William McKendree Carleton was an American poet, best known for his poems about his ru…

Red Maples

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Sara Teasdale


Each week a poem is chosen to be recorded by as many LibriVox volunteers as possible!Thank you to RuthieG for the suggestion.

Birds, Vol. III, No 1, January 1898

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Various


Birds, Illustrated by Color Photography was a monthly publication of the Nature Study Publishing Company of Chicago. It includes short poems…

Where Animals Talk: West African Folk Lore Tales

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Robert Hamill Nassau


Robert Nassau spent four decades as a medical missionary in Africa, arriving at Corisco Island, now part of Equatorial Guinea, in 1861; he a…

Das Leben der Bienen

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Maurice Maeterlinck


Schilderung der auf eigene Beobachtungen und Studien beruhenden faszinierenden Vorgänge in einem Bienenstock. Der Naturforscher und Beo…

The Comet and Other Verses

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Irving Sydney Dix


A few years ago, while recovering from an illness, I conceived the idea of writing some reminiscent lines on country life in the Wayne Highl…

Beyond Rope and Fence

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David Grew


As ranchers in Alberta, Canada release their horses into the wild to graze through the winter, one horse struggles to retain her independenc…

Birds, Vol. III, No 2, February 1898

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Various


Birds, Illustrated by Color Photography was a monthly publication of the Nature Study Publishing Company of Chicago. It includes short poems…

Spring Song of the Swallow

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Marietta Holley


LibriVox volunteers bring you 10 recordings of "Spring Song of the Swallow", by Marietta Holley (better known as Josiah Allen's Wi…

On The Tree Top

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Clara Doty Bates


A collection of Nursery Rhymes retold by the author and others. - Summary by David Lawrence *Additional Proof-listening by Christine Lehman.

You Wobbly Wink-Eyed Little Wop

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J. Clarence Edwards


To My BuddiesOf the U. S. Army—some three million in number; Of the 90th Division more specifically, and Particularly to the 315th Engineers…

Birds, Vol. II, No 6, December 1897

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Various


Birds, Illustrated by Color Photography was a monthly publication of the Nature Study Publishing Company of Chicago. It includes short poems…

Birds, Vol. III, No 4, April 1898

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Phyllis Brown


Birds, Illustrated by Color Photography was a monthly publication of the Nature Study Publishing Company of Chicago. It includes short poems…

Birds and Their Nests

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Mary Howitt


Short descriptions of different kinds of English birds and their nests. The following birds are discussed: wren, goldfinch, song thrush, bla…

Birds, Vol. III, No 3, March 1898

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Various


Birds, Illustrated by Color Photography was a monthly publication of the Nature Study Publishing Company of Chicago. It includes short poems…

Bannertail: The Story of a Graysquirrel

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Ernest Thompson Seton


A baby squirrel is adopted by a farm cat after his mother is killed, but when he is half-grown the barn which is his home catches fire. He f…

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