Memoirs

Over Prairie Trails

Read by Bruce Pirie


Frederick Philip Grove


When Frederick Philip Grove settled in a remote area of Manitoba in the early years of the 20th century, he found work teaching in a school …

My Story of the Civil War and the Under-Ground Railroad

Read by J Denning


Marvin Benjamin Butler


Story of the Civil War as told by a private soldier's perspective of daily routines, challenges, anxieties, skirmishes, battle. (summary by …

Zorra Boys at Home and Abroad, or, How to Succeed

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William Alexander MacKay


By Zorra, in the following sketches, is meant a little district in Oxford county, Ontario, some ten miles square, composed of part of East a…

The Hill

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Rupert Brooke


LibriVox volunteers bring you 15 recordings of The Hill by Rupert Brooke. This was the Weekly Poetry project for May 15, 2011.Rupert Chawner…

Summer on the Lakes, in 1843

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Margaret Fuller


Margaret Fuller, the American early proponent for Women's rights, writes of her visits to the Great Lakes in the summer of 1843. - Summary b…

Travels in Brazil, Volume 1

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Henry Koster


A well-written and informative first-hand account of a young man's travels within Brazil during the period shortly before Brazil's independe…

Memories of the Civil War

Read by Ciufi Galeazzi


Henry B. James


Henry B James enlisted in the Union Army at the age of 20, and fought in many of the key battles of the Civil War. Thirty years later, he wr…

Schetsen uit Amerika

Read by Marcel Coenders


Charles Dickens


"Schetsen uit Amerika", een Nederlandse vertaling van "American Notes" (vertaler onbekend), is een reisverslag van Charl…

Our New Zealand Cousins

Read by Beeswaxcandle


James Inglis


A travelogue of a trip through New Zealand in 1885 with panegyric descriptions of the scenery, elucidations of the progress the country had …

Campaigns of Curiosity: Journalistic Adventures of an American Girl in London

Read by TriciaG


Elizabeth L. Banks


Elizabeth Banks was an American journalist who, at about age 23, moved to London. While trying to break into English journalism and to keep …

Familie en kennissen

Read by Marcel Coenders


Piet Paaltjens


De schrijver François Haverschmidt is het best bekend van zijn dichtbundel ‘Snikken en Grimlachjes’, dat werd gepubliceerd onder het …

The Red Flower

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Henry van Dyke


LibriVox volunteers bring you 27 recordings of The Red Flower by Henry van Dyke. This was the Weekly Poetry project for March 11, 2012.Dr. H…

A Life Unveiled, by a Child of the Drumlins

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Anonymous


A memoir of a young woman, who lived in the late 19th century in the United States. Starting with her pastoral youth and progressing through…

There Was a Cherry-Tree

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James Whitcomb Riley


LibriVox volunteers bring you 18 recordings of There Was a Cherry-Tree by James Whitcomb Riley. This was the Weekly Poetry project for May 1…

Letters from a Prairie Garden

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Edna W. Underwood


The "Letters from a Prairie Garden," are genuine letters and not fiction. They went through the mail. An explanatory word about th…

Three Years' Wanderings in the Northern Provinces of China

Read by Steve Cullen


Robert Fortune


An account by Scottish botanist of his journey to China to discover the secret of producing tea and securing plants for propagation outside…

Kidnapped in London

Read by Matthew McNaughton


Sun Yat-sen and Sun Yat-Sen


Sun Yat-Sen was the first president of the Republic of China after the brutal Qing government collapsed in 1911. Over a decade earlier, he h…

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