Memoirs

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Richard Henry Dana, Jr. - Two Years Before the Mast

While there are many books upon the subject of sea life, there are few that can compare with Two Years Before the Mast . It is the story of a sailor's life from the forecastle, not a captain, nor a passenger, but a...

BethAnne and 1 more 17 hours 41 minutes

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War & Military

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Xenophon - Anabasis

Xenophon the Athenian was born 431 B.C. He was a pupil of Socrates. He marched with the Spartans, and was exiled from Athens. Sparta gave him land and property in Scillus, where he lived for many years before having...

Graham Redman and 5 more 9 hours 5 minutes

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History

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Leonard Huxley - Journals of Robert Falcon Scott Vol 1

Capt. Robert F. Scott's bid to be the leader of the first expedition to reach the South Pole is one of the most famous journeys of all time. What started as a scientific expedition turned out to be an unwilling race...

fourgrays and 15 more 19 hours 12 minutes

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Mary Antin - From Plotzk to Boston

An intensely personal account of the immigration experience as related by a young Jewish girl from Plotzk (a town in the government of Vitebsk, Russia). Mary Antin, with her mother, sisters, and brother, set out from...

Sue Anderson 1 hour 53 minutes

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Political Science

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George Washington Plunkitt - Plunkitt of Tammany Hall

«I seen my opportunities and I took 'em.», George Washington Plunkitt of Tamminy Hall. There's good graft and bad graft according to Plunkitt. Listen to this candid discourse from a 19th century politician, and...

John W. Michaels 3 hours

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Mounted police life in Canada : a record of thirty-one years' service (1916)

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Richard Burton Deane - Mounted police life in Canada : a record of thirty-one years' service (1916)

Learn more about the famous and respected Royal Canadian Mounted Police. This book is the personal recollections of one ‘Mountie'; his life, experiences and trials as an officer in a new frontier – The Canadian...

Esther 9 hours 58 minutes

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George Pearson - Escape of a Princess Pat

Being the full account of the capture and fifteen months' imprisonment of Corporal Edwards, of the Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry, and his final escape from Germany into Holland. (Summary from Book...

Esther and 5 more 3 hours 58 minutes

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Rees Howell Gronow - Reminiscences of Captain Gronow

A collection of memoirs about the Peninsular War, the Battle of Waterloo, and society and personalities of Regency London and 19th century Paris, by a sometime Grenadier Guards officer, unsuccessful...

Ruth Golding 5 hours 53 minutes

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John S. Mosby - Memoirs of Colonel John S. Mosby

This is not a work of fiction! These are the actual memoirs of a legendary leader of partisans who bedeviled the Union army for years, almost within sight of the capitol. With only a few local men under command, John...

Mark F. Smith 9 hours 35 minutes

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Memoirs

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Robert C. Leslie - Waterbiography

Robert C. Leslie (1826-1901) was an artist and writer who, at an early age fell in love with the sea, the sea of Sail, not of Steam. He describes the progression of this love from wave to wave and boat to boat....

Peter Kelleher 8 hours 6 minutes

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Edmund Gosse - Father and Son

Father and Son (1907) is a memoir by poet and critic Edmund Gosse, which he subtitled «a study of two temperaments.» The book describes Edmund's early years in an exceptionally devout Plymouth Brethren home. His...

Ed Meade and 2 more 8 hours 58 minutes

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Travel & Geography

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Isabella L. Bird - Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains

Isabella Bird began travelling while in her early twenties to help alleviate illness that had plagued her since childhood. She was a single woman in her early forties when she made her treck through the Rocky...

Laura Caldwell 7 hours 56 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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