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Station Life in New Zealand

Read by Gail Timmerman Vaughan


Mary Anne Barker


Station Life in New Zealand is a collection of cheerful and interesting letters written by Lady Mary Anne Barker (nee Mary Anne Stewart) tha…

The Formation of Vegetable Moulds through the Action of Worms with Observations…

Read by Gail Timmerman Vaughan


Charles Darwin


Charles Darwin LL.B F.R.S was the discoverer of evolution and argued the role of "natural selection" in directing the evolution of…

The Queen's Necklace

Read by Gail Timmerman Vaughan


Alexandre Dumas


The Queen's Necklace is historical fiction based on an actual scandal in the court of Marie Antoinette and Louis XVI during 1784-85, "T…

Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the…

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Alexander Von Humboldt


In Volume 2 of “The Personal Narrative”, Alexander von Humboldt and the botanist Aimé Bonpland continue their travels, beginning at L…

The Endeavour Journal of Sir Joseph Banks from 25 August 1768-12 July 1771

Read by Gail Timmerman Vaughan


Joseph Banks


In this Journal, Joseph Banks records almost daily observations of the journey of the ship the Endeavour on the first of James Cook’s voyage…

The Story of a New Zealand River

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Jane Mander


"This is the land of the lost, one of those happy spots where no questions are asked. Of course, the fact of a person's being here is u…

With the Empress Dowager of China

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Katharine Carl


Through the eyes of an artist, With the Empress Dowager of China provides a glimpse of life in the Chinese Imperial Court, unseen by any oth…

Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the…

Read by Gail Timmerman Vaughan


Aimé Bonpland, Alexander von Humboldt and Alexander Von Humboldt


Volume 3, the final volume of the “Personal Narrative”, records the travels of Alexander von Humboldt and the botanist Aimé Bonpland …

Travels in New Zealand with contributions to the geography, geology, botany, an…

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Ernst Dieffenbach


“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…

Pioneer work in the Alps of New Zealand; a record of the first exploration of t…

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Arthur Paul Harper


“Situated as we were at Camp 2, in fine rata bush, with a luxuriant undergrowth of tree-ferns and other plants - which in England would be c…

Station Amusements in New Zealand

Read by Gail Timmerman Vaughan


Mary Anne Barker


Station Amusements in New Zealand is a collection of vignettes about life on a sheep station (high country farm) in colonial New Zealand dur…

A First Year in Canterbury Settlement

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Samuel Butler


Samuel Butler travelled to the South Island of New Zealand in 1860, landing at Lyttleton, the main port for the Canterbury Settlement. Altho…

The KEA: a New Zealand problem

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George Reginald Marriner


The kea (Nestor notabilis) is the world's only alpine parrot, and is endemic to the South Island of New Zealand. Although this large parrot …

The Malay Archipelago, Volume 1

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Alfred Russel Wallace


The Malay Archipelago is a classical Victorian work combining natural history, biogeography and ethnology while describing Wallace's travels…

The Arwen, Season 1: Regal

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Timothy P. Callahan


When a comet the size of a small moon threatens the remote world of Regal the Earth Alliance assigns the most decorated ship in the fleet, t…

Scrapper's Hope

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Timothy P. Callahan


Scrapper, a disgraced United Corp Captain, and his crew of salvagers have found a bounty too large to ignore orbiting a gas giant. Upon arri…

The Arwen, Season 2: Ulliam

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Timothy P. Callahan


The Gyssyc ship is in orbit above Ulliam; the Taskforce sent to meet them has been destroyed. Captain Cook fears the worst, the Gyssyc has d…

The Arwen, Season 3: Armada

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Timothy P. Callahan


The Earth Alliance prepares itself for a new war. Two old enemy's have allied themselves with Regal, the planet the Arwen saved two years ea…

The Arwen, Season 4: The Water Planet

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Timothy P. Callahan


The Water planet is part one of a four part adventure that will stretch across the vastness of space and time. An exciting follow up to the…

The Arwen, Season 5: Dyson Sphere

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Timothy P. Callahan


Dyson Sphere is part two of a four part adventure that will stretch across the vastness of space and time. An exciting follow up to The Wat…

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