LibriVox Audio Books Catalog (Page 9)

Mairi Chisholm and Elsie Knocker were two British nurses and ambulance drivers whose staggeringly heroic efforts during World War I saved co…

With the Empress Dowager of China

Read by Gail Timmerman Vaughan

Katharine Carl

Through the eyes of an artist, With the Empress Dowager of China provides a glimpse of life in the Chinese Imperial Court, unseen by any oth…

A Voice From Harper's Ferry

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Osborne Perry Anderson

A Voice from Harper's Ferry is the abolitionist testament of Osborne Perry Anderson, the only surviving black participant in the 1859 raid o…

Travels and adventures of an orchid hunter: An account of canoe and camp life i…

Read by Arnold

Albert Millican

This is quite the adventure tale and travelog. We see cities, peoples, plants and wildlife of Columbia and the ports our intrepid 'hunter' v…

The Journals of Robert Falcon Scott; Volume 1 of 'Scott's Last Expedition' (Ver…

Read by Steve Gough

Robert Falcon Scott

Captain Scott’s ill-fated journey to the Antarctic Pole in 1911 is part triumph, part tragedy – but also a mythic adventure story which has …

A Soldier's Diary

Read by David Wales

Ralph Scott

This 1923 memoir of a World War I soldier (Royal Engineer and hand-to-hand combatant) is a well written much respected first-hand account of…

Adrift on an Ice-Pan

Read by Sean Michael Hogan

Sir Wilfred Grenfell

This autobiographical work describes the author's harrowing experience caught on a small drifting piece of ice, while crossing a frozen bay …

Im Gold- und Silberland

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Mark Twain

In dieser Reiseerzählung schildert Mark Twain seine Erfahrungen in Carson City und Nevada.Zusammenfassung von Katharina21

Memoirs of Chateaubriand 1768 to 1800

Read by Nicole Lee

François-René de Chateaubriand

This is the first volume of Chateaubriand's Memoires d'Outre Tombe, in a Victorian translation. It covers the period from his birth, includi…

The History of Minnesota and Tales of the Frontier, Part 2

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Charles E. Flandrau

A series of stories written by Judge Charles E. Flandrau "at different times during his long residence in the Northwest, which embrace …

My Days and Dreams

Read by Sue Anderson

Edward Carpenter

Hard to imagine now, but there have been times and places where just wearing sandals could get you labeled as being in rebellion against est…

Land of the Burnt Thigh

Read by Matthew McNaughton

Edith Eudora Kohl

"It will be all right," Ida Mary told her father cheerfully. "It is only for eight months. Nothing can happen in eight months…

Diary and Letters of Madame D'Arblay

Read by Barbara Baker

Thomas Babington Macaulay

An review essay of "Diary and Letters of Madame D'Arblay". The Edinburgh Review, January, 1843. Reprinted in vol. iii of Macaulay'…

Recollections of the Revolution and the Empire

Read by Barbara Baker

Henriette Lucie Dillon, marquise de La Tour du Pin Gouvernet

An aristocratic Frenchwoman's personal record of the dazzling extravagance of the Ancien Régime, of the court of Marie Antoinette, of…

Our Search for a Wilderness, An Account of Two Ornithological Expeditions to Ve…

Read by Sue Anderson

William Beebe and Blair Niles

In 1908-1909, Mary Blair Beebe and her husband, C. William Beebe made two private expeditions to Venezuela and British Guiana, exploring and…