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This podcast aims to bring you first-hand accounts from past travelogues.We want to explore what these argonauts "saw, heard, and observed" about marvellous places and bizarre encounters. They shall have their own words being read, so to grant you, dear listener, access to the source.

In the early 19th century passenger pigeons accounted for 25 to 40 percent of North America’s birds, traveling in flocks so massive as to block out the sun for hours. Although adults weighed only twelve ounces, they nested and roosted in the millions, destroying large oaks as if hit by hurricanes. Their favorite foods were the seeds and nuts of beech, chestnuts, and other forest trees, but they also raided farmers’ buckwheat, wheat, corn, and rye crops.

Dive into the fascinating world of biology with Passenger Pigeon, a collection of nine enlightening lectures delivered at The Marine Biological Laboratories of Woods Holl during the summer of 1895. Narrated by J.M. Smallheer, these talks explore a diverse array of biological topics that will intrigue any nature enthusiast. Please note that the tables referenced in Lecture 9 are not included in the recording; listeners are encouraged to refer to the accompanying text for complete details.

The Zeppelin’s Passenger weaves a gripping tale of German espionage set against the backdrop of World War I in England. In the seemingly inconsequential village of Dreymarsh, residents stumble upon an observation car from a German zeppelin and a mysterious Homburg hat, igniting a thrilling mystery. The plot thickens when Mr. Hamar Lessingham, an enigmatic Englishman, arrives at the home of Sir Henry Cranston, carrying letters from Major Richard Halstead, a British prisoner of war. Halstead’s sister, Phillipa, and his fiancée, Helen, are desperate for news of Richard’s fate. As ...

In August 1948, 545 passengers boarded an overcrowded, clapped-out vessel in Marseilles to face an uncertain future in Australia and New Zealand. They came from displaced persons camps in Germany, death camps in Poland, labour camps in Hungary, gulags in Siberia, and stony Agean islands. There were those who had been hunted by the Nazis and those who had welcomed them; those who had followed the Communists and those who had fled them.

In 1620, a group of English families, known now as the Pilgrims, were carried from England to the New World on the Mayflower. When the Mayflower finally showed up in America on November 21, 1620, it had 102 guests and a team of around 30 on board, and was anchored off Cape Cod. The Pilgrims, as opposed to their Puritan coworkers, chose to break away from the Church of England because of its Roman Catholic heritage and the church's hesitation to reform, requiring them to pray in private instead of in the church.