Insomnia downloads of the day

I'm pretty well gotten through the Vikings course by Dr. Sally Vaughn from Univ of Houston, and have started listening to her course on the Normans.

The Vikings morphed into the Normans (and the Rus) so the two subjects are related, and many of them ended up going to the crusades, so sometime in the future I'll get around to listening to her lecture course on the crusades too...

And now at UCSD Dr. Miano is giving a course on ancient explorers that I have on my mp3 player...

he mentioned in last night's lecture that Herodotus reported a huge "worm" that lived in India...hmm...wonder if that was a distorted description of the Indian python...

All are interesting but a bit slow and detailed, which is excellent so I can listen to them when I have insomnia but not so exciting that they keep me from falling asleep. Sometimes it takes two or three nights to listen to the entire lecture...

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If you are interested in past travelers, check out

1. Twain, Mark. "Innocents Abroad, The" · (readers)
2. Herodotus of Halicarnassus. "Herodotus' Histories Vol 1" · (readers)
3. Herodotus of Halicarnassus. "Herodotus' Histories Vol 2" · (readers)
4. Herodotus of Halicarnassus. "Herodotus' Histories Vol 3" · (readers)
5. Pliny the Elder. "Natural History Volume 1, The" · (readers)
6. Pliny the Elder. "Natural History Volume 2, The" · (readers)
7. Pliny the Younger. "When Vesuvius Destroyed Pompeii" (in "Scrap Book (volume 1) Sampler, The") · (readers)

or try one of these you can listen to Sir Richard Burton's book on sneaking into Mecca

more stuff:

1. Romesh C Dutt. "Mahabharata by Vyasa: The epic of ancient India condensed into English verse, The" · (readers)
2. Various. "Ancient Greek Philosopher-Scientists" · (readers)
3. Various. "Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, volume 1" · (readers)
4. Various. "Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, volume 2" · (readers)

Librivox also has "chick books:

Elizabeth and her German Garden by Arnim, Elizabeth von

by the author of "Enchanted April (I have the book and it's okay but not as good as E.A,)

and that old favorite:
Pollyanna (version 2) by Porter, Eleanor H.

And for my grandson who is studying Mandarin: they have an audiobook on Tang poems 
in both Mandarin and Cantonese. I tease my grandson that he could get around Bejing but the Chinese here wouldn't understand him.