Memoirs
Extracts from a Diary Kept by the Rev. R. Burrows during Heke's War
Read by Phil Benson
Robert Burrows
An eye-witness account of the so-called Flagstaff War, fought between Maori warriors, led by Hone Heke, and British troops between March 184…
Historic Waterways
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Reuben Gold Thwaites
Historic Waterways, Six Hundred Miles of Canoeing down the Rock, Fox and Wisconsin Rivers.This volume is the record of six hundred miles of …
Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom
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Ellen Craft
Ellen and William Craft were a married couple who escaped from slavery in 1848 when Ellen disguised herself as a white, literate man and Wil…
Seven Wives and Seven Prisons
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L. A. Abbott
This work the author claims is indeed a true story of how he happened to be married seven times to seven different women and the rollicking,…
Across the Plains
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Catherine Sager Pringle
The Sager family, including seven children, set out on the Oregon trail in 1844. Accidents and disease made it a dangerous trip, and both …
Across Mongolian Plains
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Roy Chapman Andrews
An account of a 1918 journey to Northern China by famed adventurer/paleontologist Roy Chapman Andrews. Andrews, who was the inspiration for …
A Waterbiography
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Robert C. Leslie
Robert C. Leslie (1826-1901) was an artist and writer who, at an early age fell in love with the sea, the sea of Sail, not of Steam. He desc…
Fourteen Months in American Bastiles
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Francis Key Howard
Francis Key Howard recounts in this book his life as a political prisoner of the United States. He points out that he was held captive at th…
Football Days
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William Hanford Edwards
A book reminiscent of the days when football was gaining popularity in America. (summary by Ian Hatley)
Reminiscences of Forts Sumter and Moultrie
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Abner Doubleday
Now that the prejudices and bitter partisan feeling of the past are subsiding, it seems a fitting time to record the facts and incidents con…
The Enormous Room
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E. E. Cummings
"For this my son was dead, and is alive again; he was lost; and is found."He was lost by the Norton-Harjes Ambulance Corps.He was …
Narrative of the Suffering and Defeat of the North-Western Army
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William Atherton
This memoir dating from 1812ff, but only published in 1840s is a strikingly profound contrast with our modern materialism and comfort. It is…
Letters of John Keats
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John Keats
These are the letters of John Keats, as written to family, close friends and others during his brief, eventful years as an artist. (However,…
The Real Latin Quarter
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Frank Berkeley Smith
"Cocher, drive to the rue Falguière"--this in my best restaurant French.The man with the varnished hat shrugged his shoulde…
A Soldier's Letters to Charming Nellie
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Joseph Benjamin Polley
Whether written in camp, in hospital, or in hospitable home, the letters tell a plain, unvarnished, and true story of the observations and e…
The Journals of Robert Falcon Scott
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Robert Falcon Scott
Captain Scott’s ill-fated journey to the Antarctic Pole in 1911 is part triumph, part tragedy – but also a mythic adventure story which has …
Life of Chopin
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Franz Liszt
Chopin was a romantic era Polish composer. This work is a memoir by Liszt who knew Chopin both as man and artist. This memoir gives a unique…
With the Empress Dowager of China
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Katharine Carl
Through the eyes of an artist, With the Empress Dowager of China provides a glimpse of life in the Chinese Imperial Court, unseen by any oth…
The Elephant Man
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Frederick Treves
In 1884, Professor Treves saw Joseph Merrick (known as the "Elephant Man") in a shop across the road from the London Hospital. Bei…
A Soldier's Diary
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Ralph Scott
This 1923 memoir of a World War I soldier (Royal Engineer and hand-to-hand combatant) is a well written much respected first-hand account of…