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Tours in the South Coast District

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Queensland Railways



An early booklet, designed to encourage tourism in the northern parts of New South Wales, and the southern parts of Queensland, particularly…

The Mentor

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Various



The Mentor Association was established to increase interest and knowledge among the public in the areas of art, literature, science, nature,…

Mysteries of Bee-keeping Explained

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Moses Quinby



THE NATURAL HISTORY OF BEES, DIRECTIONS FOR OBTAINING THE GREATEST AMOUNT OF PURE SURPLUS HONEY WITH THE LEAST POSSIBLE EXPENSE, REMEDIES FO…

In The Long Run

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Ella Wheeler Wilcox



LibriVox volunteers bring you 14 recordings of In The Long Run by Ella Wheeler Wilcox. This was the Weekly Poetry project for July 11th, 201…

The Higher Pantheism in a Nutshell

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Algernon Charles Swinburne



LibriVox volunteers bring you 9 recordings of The Higher Pantheism in a Nutshell by Algernon Charles Swinburne. This was the Fortnightly Poe…

Short Nonfiction Collection

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Various



Sixteen short nonfiction works in the public domain, independently chosen by the readers. The human condition is variously explored in Chest…

Visions of My Father

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MaryJo Romano



His hand gripped my bicycle seat as he ran alongside me that warm summer day. Even though he was young and strong, he was breathing heavily,…

Rambles in New Zealand

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John Carne Bidwill



John Carne Bidwill came out to Sydney in 1838 to represent his family's mercantile business. Finding that he had time on his hands he decide…

Byways Around San Francisco Bay

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W. E. Hutchinson



California, the land of sunshine and roses, with its genial climate, its skies as blue as the far-famed skies of Venice, and its pure, life-…

My Heart and Lute

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Thomas Moore



LibriVox volunteers bring you 12 recordings of My Heart and Lute by Thomas Moore . This was the Weekly Poetry project for December 12th, 201…

The Cottager to Her Infant

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William Wordsworth



Wordsworth was a defining member of the English Romantic Movement. Like other Romantics, Wordsworth’s personality and poetry were deeply inf…

Recollections of Old Liverpool

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James Stonehouse



These reflections of a 93 year old Liverpudlian provide a unique view of life in late 19th to mid19th century Liverpool. They were transcrib…

Napoleon and Josephine

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Walter Geer



FOREWORD: "In the popular estimation the Empress Josephine is crowned with a halo of goodness which makes the task of her biographer on…

Diaries of Court Ladies of Old Japan

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Amy Lowell, Sugawara no Takasue no Musume, Izumi Shikibu and Murasaki Shikibu



A collection of three translated diaries written during the latter part of the Heian Period (11th century A.D.). The original authors, Sugaw…

The Workers

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Walter A. Wyckoff



A young scholar, recently graduated from Princeton College, travels across the United States as a member of the working class, taking any jo…

In the Rain

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William Wetmore Story



LibriVox volunteers bring you 17 recordings of In the Rain by William Wetmore Story. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for November 29…

A Health

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Edward Coote Pinkney



LibriVox volunteers bring you 9 recordings of A Health by Edward Coote Pinkney. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for February 19, 201…

The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll

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Robert G. Ingersoll



For those who like courtroom drama, here are Ingersoll’s Opening and Closing arguments on the most famous trials of his career--the Star Rou…

Short Nonfiction Collection

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Various



Fifteen short nonfiction works in the public domain independently chosen by the readers. Volume 60 features excerpts from two German philoso…

Ingersoll on THOMAS PAINE

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Robert G. Ingersoll



Col. Ingersoll begins his lectures on famous people as follows: [i]"It is hard to overstate the debt we owe to the men and women of ge…

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