Nature

Secrets of the Friendly Woods

by Rex Brasher Read by KevinS 3.8
Rex Brasher is best known for his having painted in watercolor a complete set of all the extant American birds during his lifetime. This is …

Travels in New Zealand

by Ernst Dieffenbach Read by Gail Timmerman Vaughan 4.3
“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…

Wild Animals At Home

by Ernest Thompson Seton Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4
Wildlife artist Ernest Thompson Seton shares anecdotes of wild animals that he encountered in Yellowstone Park. "I have aimed to show s…

Short Nonfiction Collection

by Various Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.5
Seventeen short nonfiction works in the public domain, independently chosen by the readers. Topics include Nature and Science--fall scenery,…

Pan's Garden

by Algernon Blackwood Read by Ben Tucker 4.3
Titan of Weird Fiction Algernon Blackwood brings to us a captivating collection of stories that shows the power and glory of Nature and the …

The Natural History

by Pliny the Elder Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.5
Naturalis Historia (Latin for "Natural History") is an encyclopedia published circa AD 77-79 by Pliny the Elder. It is one of the …

The Banana

by William Fawcett Read by LibriVox Volunteers
Bananas are the most popular fruit in the world according to the BBC. In this book we see how this fruit that is grown in limited areas of t…

Mother Nature

by Emily Dickinson Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.3
LibriVox volunteers bring you 8 recordings of Mother Nature by Emily Dickinson. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for June 3, 2013Whil…

The Lore of the Honey-Bee

by Tickner Edwardes Read by Steve C 3.8
The sun shines — you know it has always shone, changeless as Time itself. With such a faith — unfounded and therefore incontestable — I cam…

Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America

by Aimé Bonpland, Alexander von Humboldt and Alexander Von Humboldt Read by Gail Timmerman Vaughan 4.8
Volume 3, the final volume of the “Personal Narrative”, records the travels of Alexander von Humboldt and the botanist Aimé Bonpland …

Practical Forestry in the Pacific Northwest

by Edward Tyson Allen Read by KHand 4
Written by a forester, this book aims to educate people on the importance of maintaining forests and those events which pose a danger to for…

The National Geographic Magazine

by National Geographic Society Read by LibriVox Volunteers
National Geographic Magazine Volume 1 Number 4 published in 1889. Topics of articles are:Irrigation in CaliforniaRound about AshevilleA Trip…

Birches

by Robert Frost Read by LibriVox Volunteers 5
LibriVox volunteers bring you 12 recordings of Birches by Robert Frost. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for February 21st, 2010.

The Flowers of Shakespeare

by Esther Singleton Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.1
A lovely collection of information about those flowers that appear in William Shakespeare's work. The brief chapters are categorized by the …

Cultus Arborum

by Anonymous Read by LibriVox Volunteers 5
CULTUS ARBORUM is a descriptive account of Phallic Tree worship with illustrative legends, superstitions, usages, et cetera, exhibiting its …

Days and Hours in a Garden

by Eleanor Vere Boyle Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4
"Already the Snowdrops are giving way before impatient Hepaticas and Primroses, the bare Elms are thickening with purple, and we begin …

Walking

by Henry David Thoreau Read by Allyson Hester 3.6
This was originally titled "The Wild" and is a lecture given by Thoreau in 1851 at the Concord lyceum. "Walking" is an e…

Literary Pilgrimages of a Naturalist

by Winthrop Packard Read by LibriVox Volunteers 5
Noted American Naturalist, Winthrop Packard, who gave us such titles as “Woodland Pastures,” “Wood Wanderings,” and “Wildwood Ways,” now tak…

The River Duddon

by William Wordsworth Read by Phil Benson 3.8
Located in a part of Cumbria that was once part of Lancashire, the River Duddon rises in the high fells of the Lake District and flows for 2…

Birds and All Nature

by Various Read by LibriVox Volunteers
"Birds and All Nature" was a monthly publication of the Nature Study Publishing Company of Chicago. It includes short poems and br…

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