Greatest Wonders of the World
Esther Singleton
46 chapters · 10 h 51 min · English
Read by George Banfield, BettyB, Gillian Hendrie, Steve C, Frederick O'Brien, Piotr Nater and others
Travel & Geography
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A selection of descriptions of famous, and not so famous, natural beauty spots, as described by various travelers of the age. Travelers include William Makepeace Thackeray, Charles Dickens, Sir Richard F. Burton and Alexandre Dumas. - Summary by LynneT
Chapters
1 The Blue Grotto of Capri by Alexandre Dumas 9 min 2 Mount Blanc and Chamouni by Percy Bysshe Shelley 14 min 3 The Dead Sea by Pierre Loti 16 min 4 Mount Vesuvius by Charles Dickens 33 min 5 The Falls of the Rhine by Victor Hugo 11 min 6 In Arctic and Antarctic Seas I. by Lord Dufferin 11 min 7 In Arctic and Antarctic Seas II. by W. G. Burn Murdoch 5 min 8 The Desert of Sahara by Eugène Fromentin 14 min 9 Fingal's Cave I. by Sir Walter Scott 10 min 10 Fingal's Cave II. by John Keats 7 min 11 In the Himalayas by G. W. Steevens 15 min 12 Niagara Falls I. by Anthony Trollope 14 min 13 Niagara Falls II. by Charles Dickens 6 min 14 Fuji-San by Sir Edwin Arnold 15 min 15 The Cedars of Lebanon by Alphonse de Lamartine 8 min 16 The Giant's Causeway by William Makepeace Thackeray 19 min 17 The Great Glacier of the Selkirks by Douglas Sladen 11 min 18 Mauna Loa by Lady Brassey 20 min 19 Trollhätta by Hans Christian Andersen 9 min 20 The Grand Canyon of the Colorado by C. F. Gordon-Cumming 8 min 21 The Rock of Gibraltar by Augustus J. C. Hare 8 min 22 Thingvalla by Lord Dufferin 14 min 23 Land's End and Logan Rock by John Ayrton Paris 14 min 24 Mount Hekla by Sir Richard F. Burton 18 min 25 Victoria Falls by David Livingstone 18 min 26 The Dragon-Tree of Orotava by Alexander von Humboldt 8 min 27 Mount Shasta by J. W. Boddam-Wheatham 10 min 28 The Lagoons of Venice by John Ruskin 16 min 29 The Cataracts of the Nile by Amelia B. Edwards 13 min 30 In the Alps by Théophile Gautier 9 min 31 The Vale of Kashmir by Andrew Wilson 15 min 32 The Lake of Pitch by Charles Kingsley 14 min 33 The Lachine Rapids by Douglas Sladen 7 min 34 Lake Rotorua by H. R. Haweis 12 min 35 The Big Trees of California by C. F. Gordon-Cumming 17 min 36 Gersoppa Falls by W. M. Yool 11 min 37 Etna by Alexandre Dumas 15 min 38 Pike's Peak and the Garden of the Gods by Iza Duffus Hardy 9 min 39 The Great Geysir of Iceland by Sir Richard F. Burton 12 min 40 The Rapids of the Danube by William Beattie 13 min 41 The Mammoth Cave by Bayard Taylor 22 min 42 Stromboli by Alexandre Dumas 11 min 43 The High Woods by Charles Kingsley 38 min 44 The Yo-semité Valley by C. F. Gordon-Cumming 30 min 45 The Golden Horn by Alphonse de Lamartine 18 min 46 The Yellowstone by Rudyard Kipling 26 min
