Nature

The Passenger Pigeon

by William B. Mershon Read by Maria Kasper 4.9
"For the last three years I have spent most of my leisure time in collecting as much material as possible which might help to throw lig…

Our Search for a Wilderness

by Blair Niles and William Beebe Read by Sue Anderson 4.4
In 1908-1909, Mary Blair Beebe and her husband, C. William Beebe made two private expeditions to Venezuela and British Guiana, exploring and…

Our Southern Highlanders

by Horace Kephart Read by LibriVox Volunteers 5
Our Southern Highlanders is a memoir of the Pennsylvania-born writer and librarian Horace Kephart, documenting his experiences and cultural …

In the Wilderness

by Charles Dudley Warner Read by Jessica Zdanowicz 5
Warner’s main theme is how small and often-ridiculous the human being is when exploring in the wilderness. Warner’s love of nature and his c…

A-Birding on a Bronco

by Florence A. Merriam and Florence A. Merriam Bailey Read by J. M. Smallheer 4.5
Florence Augusta Merriam Bailey was an American ornithologist and nature writer. She started observing bird behavior at a time when most bir…

The Natural History of Chocolate

by D. De Quelus Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.4
The Natural History of Chocolate being a Distinct and Particular Account of the Cocoa-tree, its Growth and Culture, and the Preparation, Exc…

The Outline of Science

by J. Arthur Thomson Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.7
The Outline of Science was written specifically with the man-on-the-street in mind as the target audience. Covering scientific subjects rang…

Camp and Trail

by Stewart Edward White Read by Ted Lienhart 4.3
Stewart Edward White was a popular and respected novelist who set his stories on the western frontier and in the wilderness. For his novels …

Experiments in Plant Hybridisation

by Gregor Mendel Read by Availle 4.6
Gregor Mendel was an Augustinian monk in the St. Thomas monastery in Brno. His seminal paper "Experiments in Plant Hybridization" …

Beaches

by Various Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.5
This is the 40th Coffee Break Collection, in which Librivox readers select and read stories or poems, fiction or non-fiction pieces of fifte…

The Tale of Freddie Firefly

by Arthur Scott Bailey Read by Woolly Bee 4.4
He was able to draw a deep breath again as they reached the field of red clover, where Peppery Polly Bumblebee settled quickly upon a clover…

The Elements of Herpetology and Ichthyology

by William Ruschenberger Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.9
This succinct little textbook from 1844 presents an introduction to herpetology and ichthyology. The information, albeit not current, is sti…

Our Western Birds

by Elizabeth Grinnell and Joseph Grinnell Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.7
This mother and son team, each distinguished in their field, collaborate to give charming portraits of common birds of the western United St…

The Training of a Forester

by Gifford Pinchot Read by KHand 4.3
Written by a forester, this book looks at the definition of "forest", what the life of a forester entails, discusses the forest se…

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…

The Elements of Botany

by William Ruschenberger Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4
The Elements of Botany offers a foundational exploration of plant science, designed specifically for students and educators. Authored by Wil…

Talks About Flowers

by Mary Decker Wellcome Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.5
To all Flower Lovers who may read these pages, we come with kindly greetings. To you we dedicate our Work. Encouraged by the many testimonia…

Anatomy of the Human Body

by Henry Gray Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.4
Anatomy of the Human Body by Henry Gray is a foundational text in the field of anatomy, first published in 1858 and continuously updated thr…

House, Garden and Field

by Louis Compton Miall Read by J. M. Smallheer 4.7
"Nature study seeks above all things to develop the earliest rudiments of the scientific discover." L. C. MiallThis book contains…

The Hurricane Hunters

by Ivan Ray Tannehill Read by David Wales 4.6
This 1955 book by an acknowledged authority is an absorbing account of meteorology before the advent of weather satellites. “This is the li…

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