Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 109: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 109, credited to Various, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

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LibriVox recording of Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 109 by Various. Read in English by LibriVox Volunteers. "History is profuse with abuses of some of the best thoughts and discoveries that have come to the human race," according to F. T. Ives in "Cranks." Reader-chosen topics in Vol. 109 include science, exploration, innovation, and investigative reporting: Forgetfulness; Punishment and Reward; Overlearning; A Shoal of Porpoises; Dreams as Omens; Experimental Farms; Onset of a Year Without a Summer; a New Hybrid Rose; and Wild Apples. Rounding out the volume are an essay on the Tarzan Tales; a eulogy to Beethoven; and Thoreau's playful description of a kitten. Summary by Sue Anderson

Recording facts

• Recording title: Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 109
• Author credits: Various
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 15
• Listed recording duration: 2:51:22

Catalogue topics

• amazon
• scotland
• whaling
• Beethoven
• thoreau
• climate
• farming
• volcano

Track guide

1. 01 - Accident on the Ice: Onset of the Year Without a Summer (1816) — 9:26
2. 02 - AgePage: Forgetfulness, Knowing When to Ask for Help (2020) — 17:51
3. 03 - Coke of Norfolk (1752?-1842): Father of Experimental Farms — 29:00
4. 04 - Cranks: Chapter 1 of The Hollow Earth (1904) — 6:09
5. 05 - Down the River of Doubt with Theodore Roosevelt (1913-1914) — 10:18
6. 06 - Dreams as Omens and Media of Communication between Gods and Men (1891) — 12:51
7. 07 - The Effect of Overlearning on Retention (1929) — 12:17
8. 08 - The Eruption of Vesuvius: Pliny the Younger's Description (79 AD) — 17:02
9. 09 - How Burroughs Wrote the Tarzan Tales (1922) — 9:35
10. 10 - The Kitten, from Thoreau's Journal, February 15, 1861 — 2:50
11. 11 - A New Hybrid Rose "Psyche" (1898) — 1:28
12. 12 - A Note on the Relative Value of Punishment and Reward as Motives (1912) — 11:41
13. 13 - Prejudices, Fifth Series: Beethoven (1926) — 12:13
14. 14 - A Shoal of Porpoises Meets its End on the Heads of Scottish Harpoons (1815) — 2:44
15. 15 - Wild Apples (1862) — 15:57

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