LibriVox volunteers bring you 14 recordings of A Short Strain of Music from the Orchestra by Thomas Moore. This was the Weekly Poetry project for February 4, 2024. —— [1]”A certain Spaniard, one night late, met an Indian woman in the streets of Cozco, and would have taken her to his home, but she cried […]
Following his discovery and circumnavigation of New Zealand recorded in Volume 1, Cook sailed westwards to Australia, whose east coast was at that time unknown. After initially sighting Port Hicks, Cook landed at Botany Bay, where he tried but failed to make contact with the native inhabitants. He proceeded northward, mapping about a thousand miles […]