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The Resilient Garden

Simple, Cheap & Organic Tips on Home and Community Gardening in Poor Soil and Extreme Conditions from South Africa

by Charles Featherstone ...

Think you can't garden because your soil is poor, your water is scarce, and your space is limited? Think again. Drawn from the popular columns of Grocott's Mail, this handbook is packed with proven, hard-won wisdom from South Africa's Eastern Cape.This collection of bite-sized columns and stories is a practical guide to creating life and community from barren ground. Learn how to compost, drought ... Read more

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Think you can't garden because your soil is poor, your water is scarce, and your space is limited? Think again. Drawn from the popular columns of Grocott's Mail, this handbook is packed with proven, hard-won wisdom from South Africa's Eastern Cape.This collection of bite-sized columns and stories is a practical guide to creating life and community from barren ground. Learn how to compost, drought
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Emperor Norton I

His 1820 Settler years in South Africa as a farmer, trader, frontiersman, and failure

by Charles Featherstone ...

Long before he proclaimed himself Emperor of the United States, a young Joshua Norton arrived at the Cape of Good Hope as part of a grand British scheme: the 1820 Settler scheme. His family, like thousands of others, was promised fertile land to serve as a buffer against the Xhosa kingdoms on the volatile Eastern Cape frontier.This wryly humorous and meticulously researched novel plunges you into ... Read more

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Long before he proclaimed himself Emperor of the United States, a young Joshua Norton arrived at the Cape of Good Hope as part of a grand British scheme: the 1820 Settler scheme. His family, like thousands of others, was promised fertile land to serve as a buffer against the Xhosa kingdoms on the volatile Eastern Cape frontier.This wryly humorous and meticulously researched novel plunges you into
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Complete Gertrude Barrows Bennett aka Francis Stevens, The

Including Nightmare, The Citadel Of Fear, The Heads Of Cerberus, Claimed, Serapion and Sunfire

by Gertrude Barrows Bennett ...

Narrated by Charles Featherstone ...

Unabridged

38 hours 40 min

“Haunted by a history that hurts - the loss of so many men in her life, the ravages of war, the struggle to survive and its seemingly hopelessness - Stevens gives us stories that plunge us in despair while also pulling us onward. Her writings are not a part of a neglected tradition, but a definitional one. 'Dark Fantasy', and its perverse psychic wiring, defines the age we live in, and why her ... Read more

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“Haunted by a history that hurts - the loss of so many men in her life, the ravages of war, the struggle to survive and its seemingly hopelessness - Stevens gives us stories that plunge us in despair while also pulling us onward. Her writings are not a part of a neglected tradition, but a definitional one. 'Dark Fantasy', and its perverse psychic wiring, defines the age we live in, and why her
... Read more
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Reports From The First World War

Articles written while crossing the wastelands of 1919 (Nowadays, Tales of War and Unhappy Far-Off Things)

by Lord Dunsany ...

Narrated by Charles Featherstone ...

Unabridged

4 hours 16 min

Includes the collections Nowadays, Tales of War, & Unhappy Far-Off ThingsThe great fantasy writer Lord Dunsany wrote very little in the way of fantasy after the onset of the First World War. This was partly because he was busy, having volunteered in 1915 and becoming a Captain in the Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers in Derry. However, the reality of the world bore in on our hero at this time, and it ... Read more

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Includes the collections Nowadays, Tales of War, & Unhappy Far-Off ThingsThe great fantasy writer Lord Dunsany wrote very little in the way of fantasy after the onset of the First World War. This was partly because he was busy, having volunteered in 1915 and becoming a Captain in the Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers in Derry. However, the reality of the world bore in on our hero at this time, and it
... Read more
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Abrahamic Mysticism

Including: Hillel the Elder (110 BCE-10 CE), The Niche For Lights (c.1000 CE), The Cloud of Unknowing (c. 1350 CE) and The Forerunner and the Madman (1918 CE)

by Solomon Schechter, Wilhelm Bacher, Abu Al-Ghazali, Hubert G Bradshaw, Kahlil Gibran ...

Narrated by Charles Featherstone ...

Unabridged

12 hours 15 min

Christianity, Judaism, and Islam, Three of the most important religions in western culture stem from the same original text. In today’s world, many of their branches are didactic and rule-bound, treating their holy texts as technical manuals rather than food for thought.Presented herein is the other side of their faiths, which focuses on the personal and lived experience of the divine. Each of ... Read more

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Christianity, Judaism, and Islam, Three of the most important religions in western culture stem from the same original text. In today’s world, many of their branches are didactic and rule-bound, treating their holy texts as technical manuals rather than food for thought.Presented herein is the other side of their faiths, which focuses on the personal and lived experience of the divine. Each of
... Read more
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Folk Punk, Literary Style

The Poetry of Pat ‘The Bunny’ Schneeweis AKA Johnny Hobo

by Patrick Schneeweis ...

Narrated by Charles Featherstone ...

Unabridged

2 hours 54 min

There are artists out there able to lift the spirits of the downtrodden, who point towards a better world with all they are. Sometimes, they do this in DIY punk style: raw, unplugged, and deeply human.Patrick Schneeweis, better known as Pat the Bunny, is an artist who chose the road less travelled, instinctively deeming it more honest and less controlling. Freer. He grew up in Vermont, where he ... Read more

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There are artists out there able to lift the spirits of the downtrodden, who point towards a better world with all they are. Sometimes, they do this in DIY punk style: raw, unplugged, and deeply human.Patrick Schneeweis, better known as Pat the Bunny, is an artist who chose the road less travelled, instinctively deeming it more honest and less controlling. Freer. He grew up in Vermont, where he
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Adopted By Werewolves

by Isla Watts ...

Narrated by Charles Featherstone ...

Series Audiobook 5 - Mythiverse
Unabridged

1 hour 56 min

Experience the magic of Onward blended with the heart of Judy Blume: Enter The Mythiverse. Like stars in the night sky, each book twinkles on its own. Mythiverse stories can be enjoyed in any order.In the captivating town of Crescent Hallow, Fenn's life takes an unforeseen turn when the Channing family adopts him into their mystical world. Discovering their supernatural secret, Fenn realizes that ... Read more

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Experience the magic of Onward blended with the heart of Judy Blume: Enter The Mythiverse. Like stars in the night sky, each book twinkles on its own. Mythiverse stories can be enjoyed in any order.In the captivating town of Crescent Hallow, Fenn's life takes an unforeseen turn when the Channing family adopts him into their mystical world. Discovering their supernatural secret, Fenn realizes that
... Read more
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Birth of Anarchism, The

1849-1887

by Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, Mikhail Bakunin, Pyotr Kropotkin, Louis Lingg ...

Narrated by Charles Featherstone ...

Series Audiobook 5 - History's Great Speeches
Unabridged

1 hour 53 min

Mankind can rule itself without the force of top-down authority, and freedom is more than just choosing how to meet the needs and demands of capital. Inequality is structural and intentional, not inevitable and necessary.It does not have to be this way. In solidarity, we are better.Think for yourself, and question authority.This is the essence of anarchism, which has a bad name and reputation ... Read more

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Mankind can rule itself without the force of top-down authority, and freedom is more than just choosing how to meet the needs and demands of capital. Inequality is structural and intentional, not inevitable and necessary.It does not have to be this way. In solidarity, we are better.Think for yourself, and question authority.This is the essence of anarchism, which has a bad name and reputation
... Read more
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Essentials of Daoism

Including: The Sayings of Lao Tzu, The Dao De Jing, Zhuangzi, Lieh Tzu, and Sun Tzu on the Art of War

by James Legge, Lionel Giles, Lao Tzu, Chuang Tzu, Sun Tzu, Laozi, Zhuang Zhou, Sun Wu, Lie Yukou, Liezi ...

Narrated by Charles Featherstone ...

Unabridged

24 hours 10 min

This book comprises five classic works of Chinese mysticism. Culturally, these are the companion works to Confucius’ thoughts, as expanded by Mencius. Confucianism is very much the Apollonian side of Chinese culture. It focuses on matters of ethics, hierarchy, responsibility, and social obligation. Daoism is the other side of the coin, focused on abstraction and uncertainty.The two translators ... Read more

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This book comprises five classic works of Chinese mysticism. Culturally, these are the companion works to Confucius’ thoughts, as expanded by Mencius. Confucianism is very much the Apollonian side of Chinese culture. It focuses on matters of ethics, hierarchy, responsibility, and social obligation. Daoism is the other side of the coin, focused on abstraction and uncertainty.The two translators
... Read more
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From Enlightenment To Revolution

Pitt, Burke & Robespierre, 1766-1794

by Maximillian Robespierre, Edmund Burke, William Pitt ...

Narrated by Charles Featherstone ...

Series Audiobook 12 - History's Great Speeches
Unabridged

5 hours 7 min

History is often concentrated into short bursts of change, with long periods of shifting before and waves of alteration afterwards. Nowhere is this more obvious than the thirty year interregnum between the Enlightenment and the Industrial Revolution. In this period, three figures stand tall; Pitt, the elder stateman who saw the need for genuine constitutionalism; Burke, the consummate ... Read more

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History is often concentrated into short bursts of change, with long periods of shifting before and waves of alteration afterwards. Nowhere is this more obvious than the thirty year interregnum between the Enlightenment and the Industrial Revolution. In this period, three figures stand tall; Pitt, the elder stateman who saw the need for genuine constitutionalism; Burke, the consummate
... Read more
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Niels Klim's Underground Travels

Being A Narrative Of His Wonderful Descent To The Subterranean Lands; Together With An Account Of The Sensible Animals And Trees Inhabiting The Planet Nazar And The Firmament

by Ludvig Holberg ...

Narrated by Charles Featherstone ...

Series Audiobook 5 - Proto Sci-Fi
Unabridged

3 hours 37 min

Being A Narrative Of His Wonderful Descent To The Subterranean Lands; Together With An Account Of The Sensible Animals And Trees Inhabiting The Planet Nazar And The FirmamentNiels Klim's Underground Travels, originally published in Latin as Nicolai Klimii Iter Subterraneum (1741), is a satirical science-fiction/fantasy novel written by the Norwegian-Danish author Ludvig Holberg. His only novel, it ... Read more

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Being A Narrative Of His Wonderful Descent To The Subterranean Lands; Together With An Account Of The Sensible Animals And Trees Inhabiting The Planet Nazar And The FirmamentNiels Klim's Underground Travels, originally published in Latin as Nicolai Klimii Iter Subterraneum (1741), is a satirical science-fiction/fantasy novel written by the Norwegian-Danish author Ludvig Holberg. His only novel, it
... Read more
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The Reformation, 1495-1553

The Thinkers That Changed Christianity

by Martin Luther, Phillip Melanchthon, John Calvin, Girolamo Savonarola, Huldrych Zwingli ...

Narrated by Charles Featherstone ...

Series Audiobook 9 - History's Great Speeches
Unabridged

3 hours 25 min

Martin Luther and John Calvin are household names, where people have little knowledge of them besides their vast impact on Christian thought and culture. It is surprising how closely their language and concerns reflect modern times.Martin Luther was a rabble-rousing man of the people, filled with invective and the emotional force of connecting with humanity rather than culture or wealth.John ... Read more

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Martin Luther and John Calvin are household names, where people have little knowledge of them besides their vast impact on Christian thought and culture. It is surprising how closely their language and concerns reflect modern times.Martin Luther was a rabble-rousing man of the people, filled with invective and the emotional force of connecting with humanity rather than culture or wealth.John
... Read more

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