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Lord Thomas Cochrane - Autobiography of a Seaman, Vol. 1

This two volume work is the autobiography of Lord Cochrane, a naval captain of the Napoleonic period. His adventures are seminal to the development of naval fiction as a genre. Marryat sailed with Cochrane, while...

Timothy Ferguson 11 hours 19 minutes

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Francis Key Howard - Fourteen Months in American Bastiles

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 the same location where his grandfather was inspired to write the national...

Katie Riley 3 hours 21 minutes

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Political Science

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Jane Addams - Twenty Years at Hull House

Jane Addams was the first American woman to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. In a long, complex career, she was a pioneer settlement worker and founder of Hull-House in Chicago, public philosopher (the first...

Elizabeth Klett and 7 more 10 hours 30 minutes

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Scrambles Amongst the Alps in the Years 1860-69

Sports & Recreation

691

Edward Whymper - Scrambles Amongst the Alps in the Years 1860-69

Scrambles Amongst the Alps is one the great classics (some would say the greatest) of early mountaineering literature, and Edward Whymper (1840-1911) one of the leading figures of the early years of Alpine climbing....

Nicholas Clifford 10 hours 4 minutes

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War & Military

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Sarah Morgan Dawson - Confederate Girl's Diary

Sarah Morgan Dawson was a young woman of 20 living in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, when she began this diary. The American Civil War was raging. Though at first the conflict seemed far away, it would eventually be brought...

Jacquerie 13 hours 13 minutes

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Memoirs

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Henry Ford - My Life and Work

Henry Ford profiles the events that shaped his personal philosophy, and the challenges he overcame on the road to founding the Ford Motor Company. Throughout his memoir, he stresses the importance of tangible service...

LivelyHive 11 hours 35 minutes

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George Dewey - Autobiography of George Dewey

Admiral George Dewey, United States Navy, is best remembered for his victory over the Spanish fleet at the Battle of Manila Bay during the Spanish-American War (1898). Written when Dewey was seventy-five years old and...

Delmar H Dolbier 7 hours 20 minutes

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Memoirs

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Rabindranath Tagore - Creative Unity

Gurudev Rabindranath Tagore talks of the many things he feels is necessary for creativity through joy of unity, he covers many topics like the creative ideal, makes comparisons of creativity between the east and...

Lucretia B. and 4 more 4 hours 27 minutes

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no Tsurayuki Ki - Tosa Diary

Ki no Tsurayuki was a Japanese waka poet of the Heian period. In 905, he was one of the poets ordered to compile the «Kokinshu — Collected Japanese Poems of Ancient and Modern Times». He is also one of the Thirty-six...

Availle 1 hour 29 minutes

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Biography & Autobiography

Hiram Bingham - Explorer in the Air Service

Explorer Hiram Bingham discovered Machu Picchu in 1911, as recounted in his book Inca Lands, now released on Librivox at librivox.org/inca-lands-by-hiram-bingham/. In 1917, he became an aviator and organized the...

asterix and 2 more 7 hours 41 minutes

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History

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John Reed - Insurgent Mexico

In the autumn of 1913 John Reed was sent to Mexico by the Metropolitan Magazine to report the Mexican Revolution. He shared the perils of Pancho Villa's army for four months, present with Villa's Constitutional Army...

TriciaG and 12 more 8 hours 48 minutes

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Ambrose Bierce - Iconoclastic Memories of the Civil War

At the outset of the American Civil War, [the writer Ambrose] Bierce enlisted in the Union Army's 9th Indiana Infantry Regiment....In February 1862 he was commissioned First Lieutenant, and served on the staff of...

Winston Tharp 1 hour 40 minutes

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Stolen Bacillus and other stories H. G. Wells

Eight Keys to Eden Mark Clifton

Songs of Innocence and Experience (version 2) William Blake

Russian Realities and Problems: Lectures delivered at Cambridge in August 1916

Short Story Collection Vol. 081

Around the World with the Children Frank G. Carpenter

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