Episodes

  • National Geographic Magazine Vol. 09 - 01. January 1898-National Geographic Society

    National Geographic Magazine Vol. 09 - 01. January 1898-National Geographic Society
    27 Aug 2026
    This is a 1913 travelogue by a then-well-known botanist who wrote many books about the American Southwest and California in particular. This popular book went into three printings. “…the main concern of the author has been to draw attention to an immensity of almost unexplored mountain, desert, canon and flowery plain,… This is the real California…. Like all genuine things, it has the compelling charm of the primitive and to the lover of the unartificial it appeals with freshness and power.” ( Author's Preface and david wales)
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    1 hr and 27 mins
  • Carpenter's Geographical Reader Africa-Frank G. Carpenter

    Carpenter's Geographical Reader Africa-Frank G. Carpenter
    26 Aug 2026
    This is a 1913 travelogue by a then-well-known botanist who wrote many books about the American Southwest and California in particular. This popular book went into three printings. “…the main concern of the author has been to draw attention to an immensity of almost unexplored mountain, desert, canon and flowery plain,… This is the real California…. Like all genuine things, it has the compelling charm of the primitive and to the lover of the unartificial it appeals with freshness and power.” ( Author's Preface and david wales)
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    7 hrs and 39 mins
  • Notes of An East Coast Naturalist-Arthur Henry Patterson

    Notes of An East Coast Naturalist-Arthur Henry Patterson
    25 Aug 2026
    This is a 1913 travelogue by a then-well-known botanist who wrote many books about the American Southwest and California in particular. This popular book went into three printings. “…the main concern of the author has been to draw attention to an immensity of almost unexplored mountain, desert, canon and flowery plain,… This is the real California…. Like all genuine things, it has the compelling charm of the primitive and to the lover of the unartificial it appeals with freshness and power.” ( Author's Preface and david wales)
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    8 hrs and 48 mins
  • Days on the Road Crossing the Plains in 1865-Sarah Raymond Herndon

    Days on the Road Crossing the Plains in 1865-Sarah Raymond Herndon
    24 Aug 2026
    This is a 1913 travelogue by a then-well-known botanist who wrote many books about the American Southwest and California in particular. This popular book went into three printings. “…the main concern of the author has been to draw attention to an immensity of almost unexplored mountain, desert, canon and flowery plain,… This is the real California…. Like all genuine things, it has the compelling charm of the primitive and to the lover of the unartificial it appeals with freshness and power.” ( Author's Preface and david wales)
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    5 hrs and 36 mins
  • Exeter-Sidney Heath

    Exeter-Sidney Heath
    23 Aug 2026
    This is a 1913 travelogue by a then-well-known botanist who wrote many books about the American Southwest and California in particular. This popular book went into three printings. “…the main concern of the author has been to draw attention to an immensity of almost unexplored mountain, desert, canon and flowery plain,… This is the real California…. Like all genuine things, it has the compelling charm of the primitive and to the lover of the unartificial it appeals with freshness and power.” ( Author's Preface and david wales)
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    1 hr and 33 mins
  • Through Broadland in a Breydon Punt-Arthur Henry Patterson

    Through Broadland in a Breydon Punt-Arthur Henry Patterson
    22 Aug 2026
    This is a 1913 travelogue by a then-well-known botanist who wrote many books about the American Southwest and California in particular. This popular book went into three printings. “…the main concern of the author has been to draw attention to an immensity of almost unexplored mountain, desert, canon and flowery plain,… This is the real California…. Like all genuine things, it has the compelling charm of the primitive and to the lover of the unartificial it appeals with freshness and power.” ( Author's Preface and david wales)
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    4 hrs and 43 mins
  • Going Abroad Some Advice-Robert Luce

    Going Abroad Some Advice-Robert Luce
    21 Aug 2026
    This is a 1913 travelogue by a then-well-known botanist who wrote many books about the American Southwest and California in particular. This popular book went into three printings. “…the main concern of the author has been to draw attention to an immensity of almost unexplored mountain, desert, canon and flowery plain,… This is the real California…. Like all genuine things, it has the compelling charm of the primitive and to the lover of the unartificial it appeals with freshness and power.” ( Author's Preface and david wales)
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    9 hrs and 35 mins
  • American Scenery, Vol. 1-Nathaniel Parker Willis

    American Scenery, Vol. 1-Nathaniel Parker Willis
    20 Aug 2026
    This is a 1913 travelogue by a then-well-known botanist who wrote many books about the American Southwest and California in particular. This popular book went into three printings. “…the main concern of the author has been to draw attention to an immensity of almost unexplored mountain, desert, canon and flowery plain,… This is the real California…. Like all genuine things, it has the compelling charm of the primitive and to the lover of the unartificial it appeals with freshness and power.” ( Author's Preface and david wales)
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    6 hrs and 57 mins