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Chapter X, Part 1

In From Sail to Steam: Recollections of Naval Life

Read by Delmar H Dolbier

Alfred Thayer Mahan

Alfred Thayer Mahan, American historian and author, whose The Influence of Sea Power Upon History, 1660–1783 became instrumental in the form…

15 - Second Book. The World As Will. First Aspect. 26

In The World as Will and Idea Volume 1

Read by Delmar H Dolbier

Arthur Schopenhauer

Schopenhauer used the word "will" as a human's most familiar designation for the concept that can also be signified by other words…

The Manufacture of the Line

In The Story of the Atlantic Cable

Read by Delmar H Dolbier

Sir Charles Bright

The electric telegraph, together with the railway-train and the steamship, constituted the three most conspicuous features of late 19th cent…

Chapter II Enter a Man

In The Yukon Trail

Read by Delmar H Dolbier

William MacLeod Raine and William Macleod Raine

The Yukon Trail: A Tale of the North (filmed as The Grip of the Yukon in 1928) is an adventure yarn from the prodigious output of William Ma…

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