Animals

The Animals CD contains 213 books relating to animals, including such classics as Bambi, Black Beauty, Moby Dick, The Call of the Wild, and works of Ernest Thompson Seton, covering Pets, Farm Animals, Wild Animals and Hunting, Jungle Creatures, Insects, Birds, Fish, Fairy Tales/Children's Stories, and Mythic Creatures.

Intended for use with PCs (Windows or Linux) and recent Macs (OS X), our books are in plain-text format, not audio or video. You read them on your computer screen.

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Table of Contents

Well-Known Authors

These books are cross-referenced under particular animals as well.

Marjorie Benton Cooke

• Bambi by Marjorie Benton Cooke

James Oliver Curwood

• Baree, Son of Kazan
• The Grizzly King, a Romance of the Wild
• Kazan
• The Wolf Hunters

Charles Darwin

• The Descent of Man
• The Origin of the Species
• Variations of Plants and Animals Under Domestication
• Volume 1
• Volume 2

Jack London

• Brown Wolf and Other Jack London Stories selected by Franklin Mathiews
• The Call of the Wild by Jack London
• White Fang by Jack London

Herman Melville

• Moby Dick

Ernest Thompson Seton

• Animal Heroes
• The Arctic Prairies: a Canoe Journey of 2000 Miles in Search of the Caribou
• The Biography of a Grizzly
• Johnny Bear and Other Stories from Lives of the Hunted by Ernest Thompson Seton
• Lobo, Rag, and Vixen by Ernest Seton-Thompson, 1908
• Monarch, the Big Bear of Tallac
• Rolf in the Woods
• Wild Animals I Have Known

Anna Sewell

• Black Beauty

Johanna Spyri

• Heidi
• Moni the Goat Boy

Mark Twain

• A Horse's Tale (short)
• A Dog's Tale (short)

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General and Observations of Naturalists

• Animal Heroes by Ernest Thompson Seton
• Animal Sanctuaries in Labrador by William Wood, 1911
• Book About Animals by Rufus Merrill, 1850
• Camp and Trail: a Story of the Maine Woods by Isabel Hornibrook, 1897
• Concerning Animals and Other Matters by E.H. Aitken
• Draft of a Plan for Beginning Animal Santuaries in Labrador by William Wood
• The Naturalist on the River Amazon by Henry Pater
• The Naturalist on the Thames by C.J. Cornish
• The Naturalist in Nicaragua by Thomas Bett
• Our Vanishing Wildlife by William Hornaday
• Secrets of the Woods by William J. Long, 1901
• Supplement to Animal Sanctuaries in Labrador by William Wood, 1912
• Henry David Thoreau
• Excursions
• Walden
• Walking (short)
• A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers

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Pets

Dogs

• Baldy of Nome by Esther Darling
• Beautiful Joe: an Autobiography [of a dog] by Marshall Saunders
• Browser the Hound by Thornton Burgess
• The Dog by William Youatt
• Dogs and All About Them by Robert Leighton
• Dog Crusoe and His Master: a story of adventure in the western prairies by Robert Ballantyne
• A Dog of Flanders by Louisa de la Rame [Ouida]
• A Dog's Tale (short) by Mark Twain
• His Dog by Albert Payson Terhune
• The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle
• Snarlyyow or the Dog-Fiend by Captain Marryat
• True Stories About Dogs and Cats by Eliza Lee Cabot Foller

Cats

• Concerning Cats, My Own and Some Others by Helen M. Winslow
• True Stories About Dogs and Cats by Eliza Lee Cabot Foller

Gerbils

• Hundreds and Hundreds of Gerbils by Richard Seltzer

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Farm Animals

• Cattle Brands: a Collection of Western Camp-Fire Stories by Andy Adams, 1906
• Cow Country by B.M. Bower
• The Dollar Hen by Miles Hastings, 1911
• Farm Ballads [poems] by Will Carleton
• Heidi
• Moni the Goat Boy
• Mother Carey's Chickens by Kate Douglas Wiggin
• The Mule by Hawey Riley, 1867
• Travels with a Donkey by Robert Louis Stevenson

Horses

• The Arabian Art of Taming and Training Wild and Vicious Horses by T. Gilbert, 1856
• Black Beauty by Anna Sewell
• Diseases of the Horse's Foot by H. Caulton Reeks, 1906
• A Dissertation on Horses by William Osmer
• A Horse's Tale (short) by Mark Twain

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Wild Animals and Hunting

• American Big Game in Its Haunts: the Book of the Boone and Crockett Club, edited by George Bird Brinnell, 1907
• The Arctic Prairies: a Canoe Journey of 2000 Miles in Search of the Caribou
• Bambi by Marjorie Benton Cooke
• The Burgess Animal Book for Children [wild life in America] by Thornton Burgess
• The Dancing Mouse: a Study in Animal Behavior by Robert Yerkes
• The Rifle and Hound in Ceylon by Samuel Baker
• Man-Eaters of Tsavo by J.H. Paterson
• The Minds and Manners of Wild Animals by William Hornsday, 1922
• Out With Gun and Camera by Captil Ralph Bonehille
• Sportsman's [Hunting] Sketches by Ivan Turgenev
• Volume 1
• Volume 2
• Wild Animals I Have Known by Ernest Thompson Seton
• Wild Northern Scenes or Sporting Adventures with the Rifle and Rod by S.H. Hammond, 1856
• Young Hunters of the Lake by Captain Ralph Bonehill

Bears

• The Biography of a Grizzly by Ernest Thomspon Seton
• The Grizzly King, a Romance of the Wild
• Hunting the Grisly and Other Sketches by Theodore Roosevelt
• Johnny Bear and Other Stories from Lives of the Hunted by Ernest Thompson Seton
• Monarch, the Big Bear of Tallac

Wolves

• Baree, Son of Kazan by James Oliver Curwood
• Brown Wolf and Other Jack London Stories selected by Franklin Mathiews
• The Call of the Wild by Jack London
• Kazan by James Oliver Curwood
• Lobo, Rag, and Vixen by Ernest Seton-Thompson, 1908
• White Fang by Jack London
• Wolf's Long Howl by Stanley Waterloo, 1899
• The Wolf Hunters

Jungles and Jungle Creatures

• Bengal Dacoits and Tigers by Maharanee Sunity Devee
• Equinoctial Regions of America by Alexander von Humboldt
• Volume 1
• Volume 2
• Volume 3
• The Land of Footprints by Stewart Edward White
• The Mental Life of Monkeys and Apes by Robert M. Yerkes
• The Naturalist in Nicaragua by Thomas Bett
• The Naturalist on the River Amazon by Henry Pater
• Edgar Rice Burroughs
• At the Earth's Core
• Beasts of Tarzan
• Jungle Tales
• The Land that Time Forgot
• The Lost Continent
• Monster Men
• Out of Time's Abyss
• The People that Time Forgot
• The Return of Taran
• The Son of Tarzan
• Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar
• Tarzan of the Apes
• Tarzan the Terrible
• Tarzan the Untamed

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Insects and Arachnids

• The Cricket on the Hearth by Charles Dickens
• The History of Insects by anonymous, 1813
• Jean Henri Fabre
• Fabre, Poet of Science by Dr. G.V. Legros
• Bramble Bees
• The Life of the Fly
• The Life of the Spider
• More Hunting Wasps
• Mason Bees
• The Wonders of Instinct

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Birds

• Birds of Town and Village by W.D. Hudson
• Catalogue of British Birds by Francis Kermode
• Citizen Bird: Scenes from Bird-Life in Plain English for Beginners by mable Wright and Elliott Coues, 1897

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Fish and Sea Creatures

• The Compleat Angler, 1653, by Isaak Walton (?-1683)
• Waltoniana by Isaak Walton [unpublished remains in verse and prose of Isaak Walton
• Within the Deep by R. Cadwallader Smith
• On the Seashore by R. Cadwallader Smith
• Coral Reefs by Charles Darwin (1809-1882)
• Coral and Coral Reefs by Thomas Huxley
• Fishing Grounds of the Gulf of Maine by Walter Rich
• Jonah (from the Bible)
• Moby Dick by Herman Melville
• The Sea Lions by James Fennimore Cooper

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Fairy Tales, Fables, and Children's Stories

• Aesop's Fables
• Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
• Beauty and the Beast by Marie Le Prince
• Fairy Tales by Hans Christian Andersen
• The Hunting of the Snark by Lewis Carroll
• The Magic Speech Flower or Little Luke and His Animal Friends by Melvin Hix
• Mary Jane's Book: the Book of Animals by Richard Seltzer
• Queer Little Folk by Harriet Beecher Stowe
• The Tale of Brownie Beaver by Arthur Scott Bailey
• The Tale of Sandy Chipmunk by Arthur Scott Bailey
• The Tiger in the Intercom by Richard Seltzer
• Uncle Remus by Joel Chandler Harris
• The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame
• Frank Baum
• The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
• The Emerald City of Oz
• Glinda of Oz
• The Lost Princess of Oz
• The Magic of Oz
• The Marvelous Land of Oz
• Ozma of Oz
• The Patchwok Girl of Oz
• Rinkitink in Oz
• The Road to Oz
• Dorothy and the Wizard of Oz
• The Scarecrow of Oz
• Tik Tok of Oz
• The Tin Woodman of Oz
• Thornton Burgess
• The Adventures of Grandfather Frog
• The Adventures of Old Mr. Toad
• Adventures of Unc' Billy Possum
• Browser the Hound
• The Burgess Animal Book for Children [wild life in America] by Thornton Burgess
• Mrs. Peter Rabbit
• Old Mother West Wind
• Andrew Lang
• Blue Fairy Book
• Brown Fairy Book
• Crimson Fairy Book
• Green Fairy Book
• Grey Fairy Book
• Lilac Fairy Book
• Orange Fairy Book
• Pink Fairy Book
• Red Fairy Book
• Violet Fairy Book
• Yellow Fairy Book
• Hugh Lofting
• The Story of Dr. Doolittle
• The Voyages of Dr. Doolittle
• Amy Prentice
• Aunt Amy's Animal Stories
• The Gray Goose's Story
• Mouser Cat's Story

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Mythic Creatures

• Beowulf
• Bullfinch's Mythology: The Age of Fable
• The Dragon's Blood by Henry Miller Rideout
• Genesis [with the story of Noah]
• The Golden Ass by Apuleius

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