Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 057
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- The Black Walnut
- Can Radio Ignite Balloons
- Communal Life of Yellow-Jacket Wasps
- Fifty Quatrains from Nostradamus
- A Forest Fire in Northern Wisconsin
- The Great Alaskan Earthquakes of 1899, Part 1
- The Great Alaskan Earthquakes of 1899, Part 2
- A Guide to the Giant's Causeway, Ireland
- The Krakatoa Sunsets
- The Loss of His Majesty's Frigate Anson
- Modern Burglar's Strange Evolution
- Of Things and Words
- Painting Reflections
- Progress
- The Virgin Averse to Matrimony
Fifteen short nonfiction works in the public domain, independently chosen by the readers. Natural cataclysm is the subject of several readings: the 1899 Alaskan earthquake, which uplifted cliffs at Yakutat Bay 47 feet; a terrifying forest fire in Northern Wisconsin in 1899; the fiery sunsets which followed the volcanic eruption of Krakatoa in 1883; a storm at sea which sank the English frigate Anson in 1807; and the explosion of a hydrogen-filled dirigible over Chicago in 1919. Natural beauty, also a topic, includes a guide to the Antrim coast of Ireland, observations on Black Walnut trees and the communal life of Yellow-Jacket wasps, and an essay on how to paint reflections. Two colloquies of Erasmus explore a young woman's choice to become a nun and the "preposterous judgments" of people who value the names of things more than the Things themselves. Progress--envisioned as the age of electricity; changes in burglary; and Nostradamus' prognostications for the future round out the volume. -summary by Sue Anderson
Elizabeth G. Peckham was the co-author of "Communal Life of Yellow-Jacket Wasps"
Fifty Quatrains of Nostradamus was translated by Theophilus de Garencières
Elizabeth G. Peckham was the co-author of "Communal Life of Yellow-Jacket Wasps"
Fifty Quatrains of Nostradamus was translated by Theophilus de Garencières
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