Memoirs
Seven Wives and Seven Prisons; Or, Experiences in the Life of a Matrimonial Mon…
Read by Nathalie J.
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,…
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…
Across the Plains in 1844
Read by Carol Pelster
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 …
Historie van mejuffrouw Sara Burgerhart
Read by Carola Janssen
Betje Wolff
Sara Burgerhart is een jong meisje dat correspondeert met haar vriendinnen, aanbidders en familie. Die mensen schrijven elkaar ook allemaal.…
A Waterbiography
Read by Peter Kelleher
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
Read by Katie Riley
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: Memories of the Game and of the Men behind the Ball
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William Hanford Edwards
A book reminiscent of the days when football was gaining popularity in America. (summary by Ian Hatley)
Across Mongolian Plains: A Naturalist's Account of China's 'Great Northwest'
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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 …
Reminiscences of Forts Sumter and Moultrie in 1860-'61
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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, Under General …
Read by James E. Carson
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…
The Real Latin Quarter
Read by Bill Boerst
Frank Berkeley Smith
"Cocher, drive to the rue Falguière"--this in my best restaurant French.The man with the varnished hat shrugged his shoulde…
Letters of John Keats to His Family and Friends
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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,…
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…
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…
Från barnaår till silfverhår. Första afdelningen
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Anders Ramsay
"Från barnaår till silfverhår" (From childyears to silverhairs) by Anders Ramsay (1832-1910) is one of the most …
With the Empress Dowager of China
Read by Gail Timmerman Vaughan
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 and other reminiscences
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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…