Guide to the Lakes-Thomas West

When Buffalo Ran by George Bird Grinnell."Seventy years ago, when some of the events here recounted took place, Indians were Indians, and the plains were the plains indeed. In such surroundings the boy Wikis was born and grew up. The people that he knew well were those of his own camp. Once a year perhaps, for a few weeks, he saw the larger population of a great camp, but for the most part half a dozen families of the tribe, with the buffalo, the deer, the wolves, and the smaller animals and birds, were the companions with whom he lived and from whom he learned life's lessons. The incidents of this simple story are true."Featured on Inca Lands.Public-domain recording courtesy of LibriVox (librivox.org).This episode includes AI-generated content.

True Tales of Arctic Heroism in the New World by Adolphus W. Greely.The Arctic has always been a fascinating area for us. This is true today just as much as in Adolphus Greely's time. In 1912, Greely published this volume of notable Arctic explorations and the explorers.Featured on Inca Lands.Public-domain recording courtesy of LibriVox (librivox.org).This episode includes AI-generated content.

Aztec Ruins National Monument, New Mexico by John M. Corbett.It explores what has been learned about the early people who settled there and discusses what the ruins were like at the time of publication.Featured on Inca Lands.Public-domain recording courtesy of LibriVox (librivox.org).This episode includes AI-generated content.

Explorers and Travellers by Adolphus W. Greely.“Explorers and Travellers” is a collection of short biographies of some of America’s intrepid explorers. Adolphus W. Greely writes brief but very complete histories of men who risked life and fortune to discover more of our world. A thoroughly enjoyable work if you enjoy exploration and adventure.Featured on Inca Lands.Public-domain recording courtesy of LibriVox (librivox.org).This episode includes AI-generated content.

Discovery of New Worlds by M. B. Synge.This is the second volume in the series, The Story of the World , which covers the period of history from the rise of Rome to the Conquest of Peru. Along the way, passing through the Dark Ages, going on the Crusades, and exploring the unknown world with the brave men who had the courage to travel unknown seas. Also featured is the destruction of Pompeii and the invention of the Printing Press, along with many other interesting happenings of history during this time period.Featured on Inca Lands.Public-domain recording courtesy of LibriVox (librivox.org).This episode includes AI-generated content.

Canyons of the Colorado by John Wesley Powell.John Wesley Powell was a pioneer American explorer, ethnologist, and geologist in the 19th Century. In 1869 he set out to explore the Colorado and the Grand Canyon. He gathered nine men, four boats and food for ten months and set out from Green River, Wyoming, on May 24. Passing through dangerous rapids, the group passed down the Green River to its confluence with the Colorado River (then also known as the Grand River upriver from the junction), near present-day Moab, Utah. The expedition's route traveled through the Utah canyons of the Colorado River, which Powell described in his published diary as having …wonderful features—carved walls, royal arches, glens, alcove gulches, mounds and monuments. From which of these features shall we select a name? We decide to call it Glen Canyon. (Ironically, now almost completely submerged by Lake Powell, behind the Glen Canyon Dam.)Featured on Inca Lands.Public-domain recording courtesy of LibriVox (librivox.org).This episode includes AI-generated content.

Guide to the Lakes by Thomas West.In the late eighteenth century, English writers discovered the landscape, not only in the paintings of Claude Lorrain, Nicolas Poussin and Salvator Rosa, but also as a place to be visited and viewed as if it were a picture. No part of England was more discovered in this period than the Lake District, which was transformed over the course of the next century from a remote region of farmland and inaccessible hills into a wild and romantic landscape of picturesque lake and mountain, described in works such as Thomas West’s A guide to the Lakes (1778). West’s predecessors – Thomas Gray, Arthur Young, Thomas Pennant and William Hutchinson –had merely passed through the Lakes.Featured on Inca Lands.Public-domain recording courtesy of LibriVox (librivox.org).This episode includes AI-generated content.

Discoverers and Explorers by Edward R. Shaw.Tales of the brave and daring explorers that ventured into the unknown "Sea of Darkness" where it was thought monsters and angry gods lived. They dared to sail near the equator which was thought to have such intense heat that it would boil the ocean water. It was also commonly thought at the time that the world was flat, and the ships would fall off the face of the earth. These men overcame these fears to explore and discover new lands.Featured on Inca Lands.Public-domain recording courtesy of LibriVox (librivox.org).This episode includes AI-generated content.

Wild Life on the Rockies by Enos A. Mills."This book contains the record of a few of the many happy days and novel experiences which I have had in the wilds. For more than twenty years it has been my good fortune to live most of the time with nature, on the mountains of the West. I have made scores of long exploring rambles over the mountains in every season of the year, a nature-lover charmed with the birds and the trees. On my later excursions I have gone alone and without firearms. During three succeeding winters, in which I was a Government Experiment Officer and called the "State Snow Observer," I scaled many of the higher peaks of the Rockies and made many studies on the upper slopes of these mountains."Featured on Inca Lands.Public-domain recording courtesy of LibriVox (librivox.org).This episode includes AI-generated content.

Andes and The Amazon by James Orton.This episode includes AI-generated content.