Memoirs

Ox-Team Days on the Oregon Trail

by Ezra Meeker Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.7
Ox-Team Days on the Oregon Trail is a vivid memoir that transports listeners to the early 19th century, chronicling the experiences of Ezra …

The Englishwoman in America

by Isabella L. Bird Read by Sibella Denton 4.4
Isabella Bird travels abroad in Canada and the United States in the 1850s. As an Englishwoman and a lone female, she travels as far as Chica…

The Practice of the Presence of God

by Brother Lawrence Read by Phil Chenevert 4.7
Brother Lawrence was born Nicholas Herman around 1610 in Herimenil, Lorraine, a Duchy of France. His birth records were destroyed in a fire …

The Life of Honorable William F. Cody

by William Frederick Cody Read by Barry Eads 4.7
The life and adventures of Honorable William F. Cody--Buffalo Bill--as told by himself, make up a narrative which reads more like romance th…

My School Days

by E. Nesbit Read by Cori Samuel 4.6
A short memoir about the author's school days, serialised in The Girl's Own Paper from October 1896 to September 1897. It includes stories a…

Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Henry Bibb

by Henry Bibb Read by James K. White 4.8
Henry Walton Bibb was born a slave. His father was white although his identity was not positively known. Bibb was separated from his mother …

Steps to Christ

by Ellen G. White Read by Donald Hines 5
Ellen Gould White (1827 - 1915) was a prolific Christian writer, authoring 40 books in her lifetime. She was active in the Millerite movemen…

Memoirs of a Revolutionist

by Peter Kropotkin Read by Elin 4.8
Peter Kropotkin was a Russian anarcho-communist and scientist. This is his autobiography, and he writes not only about his own life, but als…

Two Years in the Forbidden City

by Princess Der Ling Yu Read by Jc Guan 4.7
THE author of the following narrative has peculiar qualifications for her task. She is a daughter of Lord Yu Keng, a member of the Manchu Wh…

East by West

by Sir Henry W. Lucy Read by Ruth Golding 4.7
East by West: a Journey in the Recess is an account of British journalist Henry Lucy's travels across America and on to the Far East during …

Unbeaten Tracks in Japan

by Isabella L. Bird Read by Availle 4.5
Isabella Lucy Bird was a 19th century English traveller, writer, and natural historian. She was a sickly child, however, while she was trave…

The Gold Hunters

by John David Borthwick Read by Sue Anderson 4.3
This is a robust, rough and tumble, first-hand account of the early California gold rush years 1851-1854 by a Scottish adventurer and artist…

The Memoirs of Barry Lyndon, Esq.

by William Makepeace Thackeray Read by mb 4.6
First published as a serial in Fraser's Magazine in 1844 as The Luck of Barry Lyndon, The Memoirs of Barry Lyndon, Esq is a picaresque novel…

My Southern Home

by William Wells Brown Read by James K. White 4.7
William Wells Brown was born a slave, near Lexington, Kentucky. His mother, Elizabeth, was a slave; his father was a white man who never ack…

The Alpine Path

by Lucy Maud Montgomery Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.5
L.M. Montgomery's autobiography highlighting her childhood and early literary career. Published in 1917 after she had written several novels…

The Pilgrim's Progress

by John Bunyan Read by Joy Chan 4.6
Translated into over 100 languages, The Pilgrim's Progress is one of the most famous classics of literature. It is an allegorical novel, des…

Roughing It in the Bush

by Susanna Moodie Read by Moira Fogarty 4.4
'Roughing It In the Bush' is Susanna Moodie's account of how she coped with the harshness of life in the woods of Upper Canada, as an Englis…

A Gold Hunter's Experience

by Chalkley J. Hambleton Read by Sue Anderson 4.2
"Early in the summer of 1860, I had an attack of gold fever. In Chicago, the conditions for such a malady were all favorable. Since t…

Up from Slavery

by Booker T. Washington Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.7
Up From Slavery is the 1901 autobiography of Booker T. Washington detailing his slow and steady rise from a slave child during the Civil War…

Bullets & Billets

by Bruce Bairnsfather Read by DrPGould 4.7
A front-line view of life in the trenches of the Western Front in the early part of 1914-1915. Told by Lieutenant (later Captain) Bruce Bair…

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