LibriVox Audio Books Catalog (Page 5)

This book describes Canada from the beginning of existence to its first European discoverers and includes a brief history of the aboriginal …

South African Memories

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Lady Sarah Wilson

Lady Sarah Isabella Augusta Wilson was the aunt of Winston Spencer Churchill. In 1899 she became the first woman war correspondent when she …

Recollections of Bush Life in Australia

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Henry William Haygarth

This was written in the mid 1800’s at time when Australia saw an influx of immigration from Europe and when England was sending some prisone…

War

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Pierre Loti

Pierre Loti [Julien Viaud] (1850-1923) was a French naval officer and novelist. The present book is one of his few works of non-fiction, a s…

Fathers of Biology

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Charles Mcrae

An account given of the lives of five great naturalists (Hippocrates, Aristotle, Galen, Vesalius and Harvey) will not be found devoid of int…

Historic Papers on the Causes of the Civil War

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Eugenia Dunlap Potts

While claiming to be historical papers on the causes of the United States Civil War, the author indulges in some Slavery Apologetics. An int…

How I Filmed the War

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Geoffrey H. Malins

An account of World War I and the experience of filming it by an early cinematographer (and, after the war, successful director) who was the…

The Expedition of the Donner Party and its Tragic Fate

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Eliza P. Donner Houghton

The Donner Party was a group of California-bound American settlers caught up in the "westering fever" of the 1840s. After becoming…

In the Field (1914-1915)

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Marcel Dupont

I have merely tried to make a written record of some of the hours I have lived through during the course of this war. A modest Lieutenant of…

The Child's Book of American Biography

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Mary Stoyell Stimpson

In every country there have been certain men and women whose busy lives have made the world better or wiser. The names of such are heard so …

The Jesuits in North America in the 17th Century

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Francis Parkman, Jr.

Parkman has been hailed as one of America's first great historians and as a master of narrative history. Numerous translations have spread t…

The Early History of the Airplane

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Orville Wright

The Brothers Orville and Wilbur Wright made the first controlled, powered and sustained heavier-than-air flight, on 17th December 1903. They…

American Civil War Collection, Volume 1

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Various

Compilation of American Civil War related poems and short works of literature. Summary by Bill2147

Lives of Poor Boys Who Became Famous

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Sarah Knowles Bolton

These characters have been chosen from various countries and from varied professions, that the youth who read this book may see that poverty…

Römische Geschichte Buch 3

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Theodor Mommsen

Mommsen (1817-1903) erhielt für die Römische Geschichte 1902 den Nobelpreis für Literatur. Römische Geschichte Drittes B…

Ox-Team Days on the Oregon Trail

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Ezra Meeker

This is a memoir by an early 19th Century American settler in the Pacific Northwest. (Description by BellonaTimes)

The Making of a Nation: The Beginnings of Israel's History

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Charles Foster Kent

Charles Foster Kent was one of the premier scholars in Jewish Studies at the turn of the century. He was particularly well-known for his co…

Reminiscences of a Southern Hospital, by Its Matron

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Phoebe Yates Pember

Phoebe Yates Pember served as a matron in the Confederate Chimborazo military hospital in Richmond, Virginia, during the Civil War, overseei…

Kepler

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Walter W. Bryant

This biography of Johannes Kepler begins with an account of what the world of astronomy was like before his time, then proceeds to a look at…

The Theory of Social Revolutions

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Brooks Adams

Brooks Adams (1848-1927), was an American historian and a critic of capitalism. He believed that commercial civilizations rise and fall in p…

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