Biography & Autobiography

My First Summer in the Sierra

by John Muir Read by Adrian Praetzellis 4.8
The journal of nature-lover John Muir who spent the summer of 1869 walking California’s Sierra Nevada range. From French Bar to Mono Lake an…

Laddie

by Gene Stratton-Porter Read by Bridget Gaige 4.8
Based on the author's own life, this book tells the story of "little sister". The youngest of eleven, she is unwanted in the begin…

Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

by Harriet Jacobs Read by Elizabeth Klett 4.8
Harriet Jacobs' autobiography, written under the pseudonym Linda Brent, details her experiences as a slave in North Carolina, her escape to …

Roughing It

by Mark Twain Read by John Greenman 4.7
Roughing It invites listeners to join Mark Twain on a journey through the American West during the 1860s. This semi-autobiographical work ca…

Sailing Alone Around The World

by Joshua Slocum Read by Alan Chant 4.8
Joshua Slocum was the first man to sail around the world alone in a small boat. He personally rebuilt an 11.2 metre sloop-rigged fishing boa…

The Last of the Plainsmen

by Zane Grey Read by John W. Michaels 4.6
Travel along as Mike Vendetti aka miketheauctioneer narrates an outstanding true account of a trip made in 1909 by Zane Grey and a plainsman…

Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant

by Ulysses S. Grant Read by Jim Clevenger 4.7
In preparing these volumes for the public, I have entered upon the task with the sincere desire to avoid doing injustice to any one, whether…

Home Education

by Charlotte Mason Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.7
This is the first volume in the Home Education Series detailing Charlotte Mason's method of education. This volume is subtitled: The Educati…

The Memoirs of Colonel John S. Mosby

by John S. Mosby Read by Mark F. Smith 4.7
This is not a work of fiction! These are the actual memoirs of a legendary leader of partisans who bedeviled the Union army for years, almos…

By Ox Team to California

by Lavinia Honeyman Porter Read by Sue Anderson 4.7
Imagine a young, twenty-something woman in 1860, reared “in the indolent life of the ordinary Southern girl” (which means she has never lear…

Thirty Years A Slave

by Louis Hughes Read by James K. White 4.7
Louis Hughes was born a slave near Charlottesville, Virginia to a white father and a black slave woman. Throughout his life he worked mostly…

The Story of a Common Soldier of Army Life in the Civil War

by Leander Stillwell Read by Sue Anderson 4.7
Leander Stillwell was an 18-year-old Illinois farm boy, living with his family in a log cabin, when the U.S. Civil War broke out. Stillwell …

The Escaping Club

by A. J. Evans Read by Tom Weiss 4.6
Described by some as one of the greatest escape books published. The Escaping Club recounts Evans' escape to Switzerland from a supposedly &…

Up From Slavery

by Booker T. Washington Read by Mark Nelson 4.8
Up from Slavery is the 1901 autobiography of Booker T. Washington sharing his personal experience of having to work to rise up from the posi…

Revelations of Divine Love

by Julian Of Norwich Read by David Barnes 4.9
Julian of Norwich (c. November 8, 1342 – c. 1416) is considered to be one of the greatest English mystics. Little is known of her life aside…

David Crockett

by John Stevens Cabot Abbott Read by Brett W. Downey 4.5
David "Davy" Crockett (August 17, 1786 – March 6, 1836) was a celebrated 19th century American folk hero, frontiersman, soldier an…

Lewis and Clark

by William R. Lighton Read by Roger Melin 4.6
In the years 1804, 1805, and 1806, two men commanded an expedition which explored the wilderness that stretched from the mouth of the Missou…

Foxe's Book of Martyrs

by John Foxe Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.6
The Book of Martyrs, by John Foxe, is an English Protestant account of the persecutions of Protestants, many of whom had died for their beli…

The Pilgrim's Progress

by John Bunyan Read by MaryAnn 4.9
The Pilgrim's Progress is a profound Christian allegory that follows the journey of Christian, an everyman character, as he embarks on a que…

Life on the Mississippi

by Mark Twain Read by John Greenman 4.7
Life on the Mississippi is Mark Twain's vivid memoir that transports listeners to the bustling world of the Mississippi River in the years l…

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