Memoirs

Travels to Oaxaca

Read by Sue Anderson


Nicolas-Joseph Thiéry De Menonville and Nicolas-Joseph Thiéry de Menonville


Botanical Piracy! A French botanist plots to steal red dye cochineal insects from Spanish Mexico and transplant them and their cacti hosts …

Korea and Her Neighbors

Read by Availle


Isabella L. Bird


In this book, Isabella L. Bird, who had been elected a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society only 2 years prior, describes her travels th…

The Diary of a Country Parson

Read by John Greenman


James Woodforde


The Revd. James Woodforde was an English clergyman, best known for his vivid account of parish life in the 18th century. His diary, edited b…

Extracts from a Diary Kept by the Rev. R. Burrows during Heke's War in the Nort…

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…

L' Ascension du mont Ventoux

Read by Aldor


Francesco Petrarca


Au printemps 1336, François Pétrarque entreprend avec son frère l'ascension du mont Ventoux, qui, de ses 1912 mè…

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,…

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 Cruising Voyage Around the World

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Woodes Rogers


First to the South-seas, Thence to the East-Indies, and Homewards by the Cape of Good Hope. Begun in 1708, and Finish'd in 1711. Containing …

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…

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 …

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…

Reminiscences of Forts Sumter and Moultrie in 1860-'61

Read by FNH


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…

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 …

Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom

Read by Newgatenovelist


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 …

Екатерина II. Алмазная золушка

Read by Савицкий Николай


Бушков Александр


Екатерина II  Алмазная золушка В своей книге Александр Бушков исследует новую эпоху российской истории - время правления Екатерины Вел…

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)

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…

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…

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