Nature

The National Geographic Magazine

by National Geographic Society Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.3
National Geographic Magazine Volume 1 Number 3 published in 1889. Topics of articles are:The Rivers and Valleys of PennsylvaniaTopographic M…

Experiments in Plant Hybridisation

by Gregor Mendel Read by Availle 4.6
Gregor Mendel was an Augustinian monk in the St. Thomas monastery in Brno. His seminal paper "Experiments in Plant Hybridization" …

In New England Fields and Woods

by Rowland E. Robinson Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.1
Born in rural Vermont in 1833, and nearly unknown to today's readers, Rowland Evans Robinson was once one of Vermont's best-known writers. A…

Eccentricities of the Animal Creation

by John Timbs Read by LibriVox Volunteers
The author has written chapters about various oddities of the animal kingdom, focusing on creatures from the bookworm to the rhinoceros and …

Woodland Paths

by Winthrop Packard Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.8
American naturalist, Winthrop Packard, takes us on a wandering journey into the woods, alerting us to the many inhabitants and their habitat…

Poems of Nature

by Henry David Thoreau Read by Larry Wilson 5
The fifty poems here brought together under the title ‘Poems of Nature’ are perhaps two-thirds of those which Thoreau preserved. Many of the…

Life of Henry David Thoreau

by Henry Salt Read by PhyllisV 5
Henry David Thoreau was a fascinating man, contributing vast amounts of information on nature history, leading the way for environmentalism.…

A Year with the Birds

by W. Warde Fowler Read by Owlivia 4.2
William Warde Fowler was a true polymath; although his early studies focused on natural history, he became a well-known authority on the his…

Anatomy of the Human Body

by Henry Gray Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.4
Anatomy of the Human Body by Henry Gray is a foundational text in the field of anatomy, first published in 1858 and continuously updated thr…

Titan Of Chasms

by Charles F. Lummis Read by David Wales 4.5
This is a 1906 collection of three essays by men famously associated with The Grand Canyon: Charles A. Higgins, John Wesley Powell, and Cha…

The Night The Mountain Fell

by Edmund Christopherson Read by David Wales 4.4
A severe earthquake, centered in the vacation area of West Yellowstone, Montana, shook the ground and its inhabitants and visitors on August…

Understanding Climatic Change

by US Comm. for the Global Atmospheric Research Program, Us Comm. For The Global Atmospheric Research Program and Us Committee For The Global Atmospheric Research Program Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.6
Understanding Climatic Change - A Program for Action is a 1975 report by the US Committee for the Global Atmospheric Research Program. Alrea…

Submerged Forests

by Clement Reid Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.2
Submerged Forests, a volume in the Cambridge Manuals of Science and Literature series, is a study of the land beneath the coastal areas and …

The Formation of Vegetable Moulds through the Action of Worms

by Charles Darwin Read by Gail Timmerman Vaughan 4.6
In this insightful work, Charles Darwin explores the vital role of earthworms in the formation of soil and the broader implications for agri…

The Science - History of the Universe

by Francis Rolt-Wheeler Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.2
Multi-volume work on science edited by Francis Rolt-Wheeler. The sixth volume is on Zoology written by Dr. WM. D. Matthew and on Botany writ…

Over Prairie Trails

by Frederick Philip Grove Read by Bruce Pirie 3.8
When Frederick Philip Grove settled in a remote area of Manitoba in the early years of the 20th century, he found work teaching in a school …

Short Nonfiction Collection

by Various Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.8
A collection of fifteen short nonfiction works in the public domain. The essays, speeches and reports included in this collection were inde…

Camp and Trail

by Stewart Edward White Read by Ted Lienhart 4.3
Stewart Edward White was a popular and respected novelist who set his stories on the western frontier and in the wilderness. For his novels …

Short Nonfiction Collection

by Various Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4
Twenty short nonfiction works in the public domain, independently chosen by the readers. Topics include History--Jocelyn de Brakelond's 13th…

Beaches

by Various Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.5
This is the 40th Coffee Break Collection, in which Librivox readers select and read stories or poems, fiction or non-fiction pieces of fifte…

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