Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 105

Various

In May 1919, three U.S. Navy sea-planes made the first successful trans-Atlantic crossing to Europe. Lieutenant Walter Hinton was a pilot. His first hand account of this historic flight is one of 20 reader chosen selections in volume 105. Other exciting recountings include: My Toughest Trip, America's Cup Triumph, The Last Camping Match, and Up a Shot Tower. Several scientific topics are included in vol. 105: Remarkable Weather of 1911, The Scientific Presentation of History, Design of Airports, How Many Feathers Has a Bird?, Fruit Growing in the Far North, Flowering and Fruiting as Controlled by the Length of Day, Wild Flowers We Should Know, and Phantom Butterflies. An eclectic mix of subjects rounds out the volume: Surrealism in 1942, Nirvana, the Will of Thomas Paine, How a Young Man Should Study Poetry, Beer Good for Baseball Players, Of Persons One Would Wish to Have Seen, and U.S. Tariff Policy Overview. Summary by Sue Anderson

Genre(s): *Non-fiction

Language: English

Group: Short Nonfiction Collections

Section Chapter Author Source Reader Time Language
Play 01 America's Cup Triumph of 1851 as Told in News of Her Day Anonymous Etext Mark Harrington
00:27:04 en
Play 02 Beer Good For Baseball Players (1909) Anonymous Etext Mark Harrington
00:07:46 en
Play 03 The First Trans-Atlantic Flight (1919) Walter T. Hinton Etext KevinS
00:24:58 en
Play 04 Flowering and Fruiting of Plants as Controlled by the Length of Day (1920) Wightman Wells Garner Etext Leon Harvey
00:46:37 en
Play 05 Fruit Growing in the Far North Edmund Winchester Merritt Etext Amy Gramour
00:02:39 en
Play 06 How many feathers has a bird? Austin L. Rand Etext Phil Schempf
00:04:06 en
Play 07 How Shall We Design Our Airports? "Landing Fields" No Longer Suffice (1929) William E. Arthur Etext Verla Viera
00:18:22 en
Play 08 How a Young Man Should Study Poetry Lucius Mestrius Plutarchus Etext InTheDesert
00:26:09 en
Play 09 The Last Camping Match William Alfred Dutt Etext Steve C
00:20:31 en
Play 10 My Toughest Trip Robert William Reading Etext Roger Melin
00:11:08 en
Play 11 Nirvana John La Farge Etext Public Domain Scholar
00:10:11 en
Play 12 Of Persons One Would Wish to Have Seen William Hazlitt Etext Arden
00:30:32 en
Play 13 Phantom Butterflies Thomas Firminger Thiselton-Dyer Etext Public Domain Scholar
00:04:08 en
Play 14 Remarkable Weather of 1911 Francis Molena Etext Availle
00:12:44 en
Play 15 Scientific Presentation of History (1910) Lynn Thorndike Etext Leon Harvey
00:36:17 en
Play 16 Surrealism in 1942, A Lecture by André Breton Wallace Fowlie Etext Sue Anderson
00:15:13 en
Play 17 Up A Shot Tower (1891) Anonymous Etext Steve C
00:20:18 en
Play 18 U.S. Tariff Policy: Overview (2025) Congressional Research Service Etext Michele Fry
00:14:10 en
Play 19 Wild Flowers We Know Thornton W. Burgess Etext Rapunzelina
00:28:15 en
Play 20 The Will of Thomas Paine Thomas Paine Etext Michele Fry
00:09:16 en