Memoirs

The Life of a Fossil Hunter

by Charles Sternberg Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.5
Charles Sternberg was an American fossil collector and paleontologist. He was active in both fields from 1876 to 1928, and collected fossils…

Practing The Presence Of God

by Peter-John Parisis 5
Practing The Presence Of God Brother Lawrence Conversation - Nicholas Herman), a 17th-century Carmelite monk. Compiled by Father Joseph de B…

A Personal Record

by Joseph Conrad Read by Peter Dann 4.8
Conrad began dictating the series of loose autobiographical sketches that would become 'A Personal Record' in 1911, when he was half way thr…

Holmes' Own Story

by Herman W. Mudgett Read by Anautumnous 4.3
An account written by the infamous serial murderer H. H. Holmes in an attempt to exonerate himself while being tried for numerous crimes in …

The Mysterious Stranger

by Walter Bates Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.8
Sometime in the month of July, 1812, nearly a hundred years ago now, a well dressed, smooth spoken man, less than thirty years of age, made …

Reminiscences Of A Workhouse Medical Officer

by Joseph Rogers Read by David Wales 4.8
Joseph Rogers (1821-1889) was an English physician, medical officer, and health care reformer in London. The system of poor-law dispensarie…

Six Years at the Russian Court

by Magaretta Eagar Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.8
From 1898 to 1904, Irish born Margaretta Eagar was the nanny to Olga (Ольга), Tatiana (Татьяна), Maria (Мария) and Anastasia (Анастасия) Nik…

Travels in Brazil

by Henry Koster Read by KevinS 4
A well-written and informative first-hand account of a young man's travels within Brazil during the period shortly before Brazil's independe…

A Journey Round My Room

by Xavier De Maistre Read by Steven Watson 4.9
Sentenced to house arrest for forty-two days owing to his participation in a duel, Xavier de Maistre was inspired to write a travel memoir a…

Discoveries Among the Ruins of Nineveh and Babylon

by Austen Layard Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.5
Austen Henry Layard is best known as the excavator of Nimrud and of Nineveh, where he uncovered a large proportion of the Assyrian palace re…

Village Life in America

by Caroline Cowles Richards Clarke Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.8
A diary of a young school girl in Canandaigua, New York during the Civil War. (Summary by MaryElizabeth)

The Journal of Nicholas Cresswell

by Nicholas Cresswell Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.4
Against his family's wishes, the son of an English landowner emigrates to America in 1774 for reasons he won't reveal. His adventures take h…

A Journal from Japan

by Marie Stopes Read by Expatriate 4.4
Marie Stopes was a highly controversial scientist and activist in her era, campaigning for radical new views of love-based marriage, birth c…

Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte

by Louis Antoine Fauvelet De Bourrienne Read by Gillian Hendrie 4.8
Memoirs written by Napoleon's private secretary, "a work based on years of intimate friendship and professional association." - Su…

Escape From The Confederacy

by Benjamin F. Hasson Read by David Wales 4.6
Benjamin F Hasson was a Union officer in the Civil War of the United States. After being captured by the Confederacy, he escaped from a pris…

Salt Mines and Castles

by Thomas Carr Howe Read by TR Love 4.5
"From May 1945 until February 1946, I served as a Monuments, Fine Arts and Archives Officer in Germany. During the first four months of…

Journal of a Voyage to Lisbon

by Henry Fielding Read by James E. Carson 4.3
Journal of a Voyage to Lisbon captures the essence of an 18th-century sea journey, as renowned author Henry Fielding embarks on a sailing ad…

War

by Pierre Loti Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.2
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…

An English Woman-Sergeant in the Serbian Army

by Flora Sandes Read by MaryAnn 4.6
Flora Sandes was the only British woman officially to serve as a soldier in World War I. Initially a St. John Ambulance volunteer, she trave…

Kings, Queens and Pawns

by Mary Roberts Rinehart Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.4
A personal account of the American author's visit to Europe in January 1915 while a war correspondent in Belgium for The Saturday Evening Po…

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