Nature

Our Vanishing Wild Life

by William T. Hornaday Read by LibriVox Volunteers
Our Vanishing Wild Life is a passionate call to action from William T. Hornaday, a pioneering conservationist, who confronts the alarming de…

Days and Hours in a Garden

by Eleanor Vere Boyle Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.2
"Already the Snowdrops are giving way before impatient Hepaticas and Primroses, the bare Elms are thickening with purple, and we begin …

Far Away and Long Ago

by William Henry Hudson Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.2
William Henry Hudson was an author, naturalist and ornithologist. Hudson was born of U.S. parents living in the Quilmes Partido in Buenos Ai…

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…

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 …

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…

A Prairie Sunset

by Walt Whitman Read by LibriVox Volunteers 5
A Prairie Sunset is a reflective poem by Walt Whitman that captures the beauty and vastness of the American landscape. Through vivid imagery…

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 …

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 …

Old Hampshire Vignettes

by Mary Elizabeth Hawker Read by David Wales 4
Old Hampshire Vignettes invites listeners into the serene landscapes and rich experiences of the Hampshire Valley through the eyes of Mary E…

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…

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…

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…

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,…

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…

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 …

Slovenly Betsy

by Heinrich Hoffmann Read by LibriVox Volunteers 5
Hienrich Hoffmann was a German psychiatrist and doctor. He had written poetry and sketches for his son, and was persuaded to have a collecti…

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 …

Ten Common Trees

by Susan Stokes Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.5
These are short sketches of ten common trees found in North America -- Black Willow, American Elm, Apple Tree, Horse-Chestnut, Birch, White …

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