Category Archives: Art, Design & Architecture

Audiobook: At the Earth’s Core

This is the first book in the Pellucidar series. Pellucidar is a fictional Hollow Earth

Audiobook: The Book of Art for Young People

This is a charming book on Art History for children (and everyone else). Each chapter

Audiobook: Thuvia, Maid of Mars

Published in 1920, Thuvia, Maid of Mars is the fourth book in the Barsoom series

Audiobook: Legend Land

Legend Land is a collection of some of the OLD TALES told in those Western

Audiobook: The Book of Tea

The Book of Tea was written by Okakura Kakuzo in the early 20th century. It

Audiobook: Stories of King Arthur and His Knights

Stories of King Arthur and His Knights. Retold from Malory’s “Morte dArthur”.

Audiobook: Pellucidar

Pellucidar is a fictional “Hollow Earth” milieu invented by Edgar Rice Burroughs for a series

Audiobook: Adrift on an Ice-Pan

This autobiographical work describes the author’s harrowing experience caught on a small drifting piece of

Audiobook: Current Superstitions

No matter how enlightened, chances are you’ve been raised around superstitious lore of one kind

Audiobook: The South Pole; an account of the Norwegian Antarctic expedition in the Fram, 1910-12

In contrast to Scott’s South Pole expedition, Amundsen’s expedition benefited from good equipment, appropriate clothing,

Audiobook: Great Pirate Stories

Piracy embodies the romance of the sea at its highest expression. It is a sad

Audiobook: Le Pays des Fourrures

En 1959, des officiers de la Compagnie de la Baie d’Hudson sont chargés d’aller fonder

Audiobook: The Book of Hallowe’en

This book is intended to give the reader an account of the origin and history

Audiobook: Magna Carta

The original document is in Latin so this can only be a fairly rough approximation

Audiobook: Lectures on Landscape

A series of lectures on landscape painting delivered at Oxford in 1871, by artist, critic,

Audiobook: Greek and Roman Ghost Stories

A non-fiction work, comparing and collecting ghost stories by Classical Greek and Republican or Imperial

Audiobook: Stories of King Arthur’s Knights Told to the Children

A collection of Arthurian tales retold for children.

Audiobook: Australian Legendary Tales Folk-Lore of the Noongahburrahs As Told To The Piccaninnies

A Collection of Australian Aboriginal Legendary Folk-Lore Tales, legends of the Narran tribe, known among

Audiobook: Essay on the Creative Imagination

“It is quite generally recognized that psychology has remained in the semi-mythological, semi-scholastic period longer

Audiobook: Edison’s Conquest of Mars

Edison’s Conquest of Mars, by Garrett P. Serviss, is one of the many science fiction

Audiobook: The Greek View of Life

“With the Greek civilisation beauty perished from the world. Never again has it been possible

Audiobook: Detailed Minutiae of Soldier Life in the Army of Northern Virginia, 1861-1865

The author, who fought as a private in the Army of Northern Virginia during the

Audiobook: Mozart, The Man and the Artist as Revealed in His Own Words

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. His name is one of the most recognizable names in history and

Audiobook: The Loss of the S. S. Titanic

This is a 1st hand account written by a survivor of the Titanic about that

Audiobook: The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini

Cellini’s autobiographical memoirs, which he began writing in Florence in 1558, give a detailed account

Audiobook: The Social History of Smoking

This work tells the history of smoking in England from the social point of view.

Audiobook: Manners, Customs and Dress During the Middle Ages and During the Renaissance Period

A comprehensive and detailed account of medieval life and culture in France, with reference to

Audiobook: Lives of the Most Eminent Painters, Sculptors and Architects

The Lives of the Most Excellent Italian Painters, Sculptors, and Architects, from Cimabue to Our

Audiobook: Fairy Tales from Brazil

This book, subtitled “How and Why Tales from Brazilian Folk-Lore”, is a collection of short

Audiobook: Journey to the Centre of the Earth

The story involves a German professor (Otto Lidenbrock in the original French, Professor Von Hardwigg