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A Voyage Towards the South Pole and Round the World Volume 1

Read by David Cole

James Cook

Having, on his first voyage, discovered Australia, Cook still had to contend with those who maintained that the Terra Australians Incognita …

The First Voyage of James Cook Volume 1

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James Cook

In May 1768, the Admiralty commissioned the 39-year old Cook to command a scientific voyage to the Pacific Ocean to observe and record the 1…

The First Voyage of James Cook Volume 2

Read by David Cole

James Cook

Following his discovery and circumnavigation of New Zealand recorded in Volume 1, Cook sailed westwards to Australia, whose east coast was a…

A Voyage Towards the South Pole and Round the World Volume 2

Read by David Cole

James Cook

Having disproved the myth of Terra Australis Incognita (The unknown Southern Continent), Cook returns to New Zealand via the Friendly Island…

The Third Voyage of James Cook, Volume 1

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James Cook

Only months after his return from his mammoth Second Voyage, the Admiralty ordered Cook back to the Pacific, ostensibly to return Omai, a yo…

Demographic Trends and Problems of the Modern World

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David Coleman

University of Oxford Podcasts

Chapter 26: Of the Law and the Customs of the Tartarians dwelling in Cathay. An…

In The Travels of Sir John Mandeville

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Sir John Mandeville

This is an Elizabethan translation of a 14th century travelogue, allegedly composed by one Sir John Mandeville. According to the book, John …

26 - The House of Korchagin

In Resurrection, Book 1

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Leo Tolstoy, translated by Louise Maude and Leo Tolstoy

Resurrection is the last of Tolstoy's major fiction works published in his lifetime. Tolstoy intended the novel as an exposition of injustic…