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The Yosemite by John Muir ~ Full Audiobook [history]
Classic Audiobook Collection
08/13/22
•429m
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The Yosemite by John Muir audiobook.
Genre: history
In The Yosemite, naturalist and advocate John Muir invites listeners into the granite cathedral of Californias Sierra Nevada, blending firsthand observation with a poets reverence for wild places. Moving from the famous Yosemite Valley to its surrounding high country, Muir traces how ice, water, and time shaped sheer cliffs, domes, waterfalls, and meadows, while also introducing the living community that thrives there - towering sequoias, resilient pines, wildflowers, birds, and the larger animals that roam the forests and open slopes. Along the way, he reflects on human presence in the region, from early exploration and settlement to the rising idea that landscapes can be protected for the public good. Part travel narrative, part natural history, and part manifesto, the book captures the sensory immediacy of wind in the treetops and thunder in the falls, while arguing that understanding a place is the first step toward preserving it. Muirs central conflict is not with a single antagonist, but with indifference and exploitation - the forces that would reduce a living wilderness to scenery or resources.
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Chapters (Approximate)
(00:00:00) Chapter 1
(00:14:08) Chapter 2
(00:31:24) Chapter 3
(00:45:36) Chapter 4
(00:59:20) Chapter 5
(01:13:27) Chapter 02
(01:30:44) Chapter 03
(01:45:14) Chapter 6
(01:57:06) Chapter 7
(02:14:45) Chapter 05
(02:23:07) Chapter 8
(02:36:59) Chapter 9
(02:54:03) Chapter 10
(03:05:34) Chapter 11
(03:16:04) Chapter 07
(03:46:11) Chapter 08
(04:05:30) Chapter 09
(04:19:11) Chapter 10
(04:32:09) Chapter 11
(05:15:11) Chapter 12
(05:37:39) Chapter 13
(06:05:54) Chapter 13
(06:24:01) Chapter 14
(06:27:56) Chapter 15
(06:38:43) Chapter 16
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Paradise Lost by John Milton ~ Full Audiobook [poetry]
August 13, 2022
•558m
Paradise Lost by John Milton audiobook.
Genre: poetry
John Milton's Paradise Lost is a monumental epic poem that retells the story of humanity's first disobedience and the sweeping spiritual war that surrounds it. The poem opens in the aftermath of a cataclysmic defeat, where Satan and his fallen host rally in a bleak new realm and plot a way to strike back at Heaven. Their target is not a fortress but a fragile, radiant world newly made, where Adam and Eve live in innocence within Eden. As celestial messengers, infernal powers, and human longing intersect, Milton explores the tension between obedience and freedom, reason and desire, pride and humility. With grand speeches, intricate theology, and vividly imagined landscapes, the poem follows the movement from cosmic rebellion to intimate temptation, asking what it means to choose, to fall, and to seek redemption. At once philosophical and dramatic, Paradise Lost is a work about ambition, love, responsibility, and the cost of self-deception - and why the smallest human decision can echo across the universe.
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Chapters (Approximate)
(00:00:00) Chapter 01
(00:25:16) Chapter 02
(00:51:08) Chapter 03
(01:15:16) Chapter 04
(01:44:34) Chapter 05
(02:03:46) Chapter 06
(02:25:02) Chapter 07
(02:57:32) Chapter 08
(03:27:31) Chapter 09
(03:49:29) Chapter 10
(04:14:33) Chapter 11
(04:34:00) Chapter 12
(05:01:57) Chapter 14
(05:38:26) Chapter 15
(06:05:09) Chapter 16
(06:40:52) Chapter 17
(07:13:32) Chapter 18
(07:41:55) Chapter 19
(08:19:23) Chapter 20
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Ashton-Kirk, Investigator by John Thomas McIntyre ~ Full Audiobook [mystery]
August 14, 2022
•500m
Ashton-Kirk, Investigator by John Thomas McIntyre audiobook.
Genre: mystery
Ashton-Kirk, who has solved so many mysteries, is himself something of a problem even to those who know him best. Although young, wealthy, and of high social position, he is nevertheless an indefatigable worker in his chosen field. He smiles when men call him a detective. 'No; only an investigator,' he says.
He has never courted notoriety; indeed, his life has been more or less secluded. However, let a man do remarkable work in any line and, as Emerson has observed, 'the world will make a beaten path to his door.'
Those who have found their way to Ashton-Kirk's door have been of many races and interests. Men of science have often been surprised to find him in touch with the latest discoveries, scholars searching among strange tongues and dialects, and others deep in tattered scrolls, ancient tablets and forgotten books have been his frequent visitors. But among them come many who seek his help in solving problems in crime.
'I'm more curious than some other fellows, that's all,' is the way he accounts for himself. 'If a puzzle is put in front of me I can't rest till I know the answer.' At any rate his natural bent has always been to make plain the mysterious; each well hidden step in the perpetration of a crime has always been for him an exciting lure; and to follow a thread, snarled by circumstances or by another intelligence has been, he admits, his chief delight.
There are many strange things to be written of this remarkable man--but this, the case of the numismatist Hume, has been selected as the first because it is one of the simplest, and yet clearly illustrates Ashton-Kirk's peculiar talents. It will also throw some light on the question, often asked, as to how his cases come to him.
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Chapters (Approximate)
(00:00:00) Chapter 00
(00:02:58) Chapter 01
(00:20:38) Chapter 02
(00:42:20) Chapter 03
(01:15:50) Chapter 04
(01:35:59) Chapter 05
(02:02:56) Chapter 06
(02:28:46) Chapter 07
(02:42:17) Chapter 08
(02:52:33) Chapter 09
(03:11:08) Chapter 10
(03:26:45) Chapter 11
(03:48:38) Chapter 12
(04:00:45) Chapter 13
(04:20:29) Chapter 14
(04:45:45) Chapter 15
(04:58:00) Chapter 16
(05:10:45) Chapter 17
(05:25:23) Chapter 18
(05:41:00) Chapter 19
(05:55:08) Chapter 20
(06:12:27) Chapter 21
(06:23:01) Chapter 22
(06:40:55) Chapter 23
(07:00:31) Chapter 24
(07:18:47) Chapter 25
(07:40:12) Chapter 26
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