Memoirs

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Travel & Geography

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Ferdinand Ossendowski - Beasts, Men and Gods

“Beasts, Men and Gods” is an account of an epic journey, filled with perils and narrow escapes, in the mold of “The Lord of the Rings.” The difference is: it’s all true. Ferdinand Ossendowski was a Pole who...

Mark F. Smith 8 hours 59 minutes

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Psychology

574

Jean-Jacques Rousseau - Confessions, volumes 1 and 2

“Thus I have acted; these were my thoughts; such was I.” Rousseau’s lengthy and sometimes anguished dossier on the Self is one of the most remarkable and courageous works of introspection ever undertaken. Some...

Martin Geeson 5 hours 10 minutes The Confessions of Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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Memoirs

470

Thornton Chase - In Galilee

Thornton Chase is commonly recognized as the first convert to the Bahá'í Faith of Occidental background. During his life he organized many Bahá'í activities in Chicago and Los Angeles and was considered a prominent...

Nicholas James Bridgewater 2 hours 4 minutes

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Animals

542

John Henry Patterson - Man-Eaters of Tsavo

In 1898, during the construction of river-crossing bridge for the Uganda Railway at the Tsavo River, as many as 135 railway workers were attacked at night, dragged into the wilderness, and devoured by two male lions....

James Christopher and 8 more 6 hours 22 minutes

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Nature

521

John Muir - Steep Trails

A collection of Muir's previously unpublished essays, released shortly after his death. «This volume will meet, in every way, the high expectations of Muir's readers. The recital of his experiences during a stormy...

Denny Sayers and 10 more 9 hours 16 minutes

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Memoirs

457

Jacob William Wright - Long Ago

Short memory of boyhood by a little-known American poet based in Carmel-By-The-Sea, California. (Summary by BellonaTimes)

Bellona Times 1 hour 15 minutes

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Army Letters from an Officer's Wife, 1871-1888

War & Military

505

Frances M. A. Roe - Army Letters from an Officer's Wife, 1871-1888

«There appeared from the bushes in front of me, and right in the path, two immense gray wolves... Rollo saw them and stopped instantly, giving deep sighs, preparing to snort, I knew... To give myself courage, I...

Sue Anderson 11 hours 36 minutes

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Story of My Misfortunes (or: Historia Calamitatum)

Memoirs

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Pierre Abélard - Story of My Misfortunes (or: Historia Calamitatum)

Autobiographies from remote historical periods can be especially fascinating. Modes of self-presentation vary greatly across the centuries, as of course does the very concept of Self. Peter Abelard, the...

Martin Geeson 2 hours 34 minutes

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Memoirs

515

Chalkley J. Hambleton - Gold Hunter's Experience

«Early in the summer of 1860, I had an attack of gold fever. In Chicago, the conditions for such a malady were all favorable. Since the panic of 1857 there had been three years of general depression, money was...

Sue Anderson 2 hours 1 minute

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Memoirs

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Howard R. Driggs - Ox-Team Days on the Oregon Trail

This is a memoir by an early 19th Century American settler in the Pacific Northwest. (Description by BellonaTimes)

Bellona Times and 13 more 5 hours 34 minutes

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Performing Arts

491

P. T. Barnum - Humbugs of the World

P. T. Barnum exposes some of the chief humbugs of the world with his usual entertaining style. He looks at medicine and quacks, ghosts, witchcraft, religious humbugs, money manias, adventurers, personal...

Barry Eads and 20 more 12 hours 48 minutes

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True Crime

471

William Bligh - Voyage to the South Sea

A Voyage to the South Sea, undertaken by command of His Majesty, for the purpose of conveying the Bread-fruit tree to the West Indies, in His Majesty’s ship The Bounty, commanded by Lieutenant William Bligh....

Tom Crawford 8 hours 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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