Memoirs

Afloat on the Ohio

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Reuben Gold Thwaites


Afloat on the Ohio, An Historical Pilgrimage, of a Thousand Miles in a Skiff, From Redstone to Cairo.There were four of us pilgrims—my Wife,…

Vagabonding Down The Andes

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Harry A. Franck


Sometime in the latter half of 1911, Harry A. Franck jumped out of a box-car and crossed the Rio Grande, from Laredo. Thus began a journey, …

The Life-Story of a Russian Exile

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Marie Sukloff


Hero or assassin? Victim or criminal? Marie Sukloff fits no easy category. A young peasant woman who became a political radical and activ…

Three Years in the Federal Cavalry

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Willard Glazier


Captain Glazier narrates his experiences as a cavalryman in the Federal Army during the Civil War, from his enlistment in New York State to …

Martyred Armenia

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Fa'Iz El-Ghusein


This is a first hand account of the Armenian Genocide written by a Syrian who had been a Turkish official for three and a half years. His ac…

A Journal from Japan

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Marie Stopes


Marie Stopes was a highly controversial scientist and activist in her era, campaigning for radical new views of love-based marriage, birth c…

A Son of the Middle Border

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Hamlin Garland


In all the region of autobiography, so far as I know it, I do not know quite the like of Mr. Garland's story of his life, and I should rank …

Vanished Arizona: Recollections of the Army Life of a New England Woman

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Martha Summerhayes


"This is the lively autobiography of Martha Summerhayes, the wife of an officer in the American Army. Here, she tells many stories abou…

Untrodden Peaks and Unfrequented Valleys

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Amelia Ann Blanford Edwards


Amelia B. Edwards wrote this historical travelogue in in 1873. The book describes her travels through a relatively un-visited area in the So…

Primera epistola del Almirante don Cristóbal Colón dando cuenta de su gran desc…

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Christopher Columbus


Uno de los primeros textos que escribió Cristóbal Colón en 1493 para informar y dar a conocer en Europa del éxit…

The Andes and The Amazon

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James Orton


This book, with the subtitle "Across the Continent of South America" describes the scientific expedition of 1867 to the equatorial…

East by West, Vol. 2

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Sir Henry W. Lucy


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 in 1883…

Journal of a Voyage to Lisbon

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Henry Fielding


Sailing voyage from England to Portugal in the mid Eighteenth Century, by one of the premier humorists, satirists, novelists and playwrights…

Memories of Old Montana

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Con Price


Con Price recalls the 1870s through the 1940s, growing up in Iowa and South Dakota before heading out on a cattle drive into Montana. Never…

Abraham Lincoln: A History (Volume 2)

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John Hay


Abraham Lincoln: A History is an 1890 ten-volume account of the life and times of Abraham Lincoln, written by John Nicolay and John Hay, who…

In Our Convent Days

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Agnes Repplier


With her usual wit and charm, Ms. Repplier recalls her days at Eden Hall, the Convent of the Sacred Heart in Torresdale, north of Philadelph…

The Life and Adventures of Venture

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Venture Smith


Venture Smith was an African captured as a child and transported to the American colonies to be sold as a slave. As an adult, he purchased h…

Our Old Home

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Nathaniel Hawthorne


These essays, based on Hawthorne’s stay in England from 1853 to 1857 as American Consul in Liverpool, were first published in the form of a …

My Trip Abroad

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Charlie Chaplin


"A steak and kidney pie, influenza and a cablegram. There is the triple alliance that is responsible for the whole thing."So begin…

The Story of Mary MacLane

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Mary Maclane


At the age of 19 in 1902, MacLane published her first book, The Story of Mary MacLane. It sold 100,000 copies in the first month and was pop…

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