Classic Audiobook Collection - Across Mongolian Plains - A Naturalists Account of China's Great Northwest by Roy Chapman Andrews ~ Full Audiobook [adventure]

Across Mongolian Plains - A Naturalists Account of China's Great Northwest by Roy Chapman Andrews ~ Full Audiobook [adventure]

Classic Audiobook Collection

08/15/23

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487m

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Across Mongolian Plains - A Naturalists Account of China's Great Northwest by Roy Chapman Andrews audiobook.

Genre: adventure

In Across Mongolian Plains: A Naturalists Account of Chinas Great Northwest, famed explorer and naturalist Roy Chapman Andrews invites listeners into the vast, wind-scoured spaces beyond the Great Wall, where grasslands fade into desert and the horizon seems to run forever. Traveling by cart, horseback, and camel caravan, Andrews chronicles the daily realities of field science in the early 20th century: securing supplies, negotiating routes, enduring punishing weather, and pushing onward when water, fuel, and luck run thin. Along the way, he sketches a vivid portrait of Mongolian life and the borderlands of northern China, from remote encampments and trading posts to the rituals of the steppe and the hard-earned expertise of local guides. With a naturalists eye, he watches wildlife, reads the land for signs of change, and reflects on how geography and climate shape the people who live there. Part travelogue, part expedition journal, this classic account captures the tension between curiosity and risk, and the stubborn determination required to study nature at the edge of the map.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 00

(00:07:52) Chapter 01

(00:27:30) Chapter 02

(00:48:19) Chapter 03

(01:04:36) Chapter 04

(01:21:56) Chapter 05

(01:43:48) Chapter 06

(02:32:38) Chapter 07

(03:05:16) Chapter 08

(03:42:46) Chapter 09

(04:10:14) Chapter 10

(04:25:56) Chapter 11

(04:52:33) Chapter 12

(05:14:37) Chapter 13

(05:29:16) Chapter 14

(06:03:07) Chapter 15

(06:26:31) Chapter 16

(06:44:09) Chapter 17

(07:01:50) Chapter 18

(07:28:37) Chapter 19

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The Maker of Moons, and Other Short Stories by Robert W. Chambers ~ Full Audiobook [horror]

August 14, 2023

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564m

The Maker of Moons, and Other Short Stories by Robert W. Chambers audiobook.

Genre: horror

In this eerie early collection from Robert W. Chambers, the everyday world keeps cracking open to reveal hidden rooms of dread, enchantment, and obsession. The stories range from shadowed city streets to lonely country houses, from moonlit gardens to back rooms where forbidden crafts are practiced, and they share a single question: what happens when curiosity draws ordinary people too close to the impossible? Artists, amateurs, and hardheaded witnesses find their assumptions tested by strange rites, uncanny artifacts, and figures who seem to step out of legend but leave very real consequences behind. Chambers writes with a painter's eye for atmosphere, layering sumptuous detail with sudden, unsettling turns, so that beauty and menace arrive hand in hand. Some tales lean toward dreamlike fantasy, others toward supernatural suspense, but all explore the same fragile boundary between what can be explained and what can only be endured. The result is a set of short fictions that invites you to wander, cautiously, into worlds where the moon might be made, remade, or taken away.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 01

(00:13:28) Chapter 02

(00:24:01) Chapter 03

(00:35:29) Chapter 04

(00:46:11) Chapter 05

(01:03:08) Chapter 06

(01:21:50) Chapter 07

(01:31:07) Chapter 08

(02:03:50) Chapter 09

(02:16:30) Chapter 10

(02:28:46) Chapter 11

(02:37:16) Chapter 12

(02:46:15) Chapter 13

(02:47:40) Chapter 14

(02:54:49) Chapter 15

(03:02:17) Chapter 16

(03:20:13) Chapter 17

(03:28:08) Chapter 18

(03:47:01) Chapter 19

(04:08:26) Chapter 20

(04:24:55) Chapter 21

(04:36:06) Chapter 22

(04:51:56) Chapter 23

(04:59:43) Chapter 24

(05:07:13) Chapter 25

(05:14:53) Chapter 26

(05:29:50) Chapter 27

(05:41:22) Chapter 28

(05:53:30) Chapter 29

(06:03:24) Chapter 30

(06:19:39) Chapter 31

(06:33:59) Chapter 32

(06:55:21) Chapter 33

(07:09:52) Chapter 34

(07:22:16) Chapter 35

(07:34:54) Chapter 36

(07:49:42) Chapter 37

(08:03:31) Chapter 38

(08:30:41) Chapter 39

(08:53:01) Chapter 40

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Actions And Reactions by Rudyard Kipling ~ Full Audiobook [adventure]

August 15, 2023

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406m

Actions And Reactions by Rudyard Kipling audiobook.

Genre: adventure

Rudyard Kipling's Actions And Reactions is a wide-ranging collection of stories in which private choices collide with public forces - empire, technology, class, and the stubborn pull of the past. From English countryside homes shadowed by old histories to far-flung outposts where duty and survival test the limits of loyalty, Kipling follows soldiers, engineers, travelers, and ordinary men and women caught in moments when a single decision sets larger consequences in motion. The collection moves between grounded realism and imaginative speculation, pairing intimate dramas of marriage, inheritance, and belonging with tales that look forward to new machines and new kinds of conflict. Across these different settings, Kipling returns to recurring questions: what do people owe to tradition, to family, and to the systems that employ them? How do communities respond when change arrives - slowly through custom, or suddenly through disaster? Written with sharp observation, brisk narrative energy, and a keen ear for professional life and social ritual, these stories invite listeners to watch cause and effect unfold, sometimes quietly and sometimes with explosive force.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 01

(01:12:36) Chapter 02

(01:14:00) Chapter 03

(01:49:38) Chapter 04

(01:51:26) Chapter 05

(02:29:59) Chapter 06

(02:32:26) Chapter 07

(03:49:08) Chapter 08

(03:53:32) Chapter 09

(04:27:07) Chapter 10