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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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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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Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Written by Herself

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Harriet Jacobs - Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Written by Herself

Harriet Jacobs' autobiography, written under the pseudonym Linda Brent, details her experiences as a slave in North Carolina, her escape to freedom in the north, and her ensuing struggles to free her children. The...

Elizabeth Klett 7 hours 46 minutes

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Mary Georgiana Caroline Hall - Lady's Life on a Farm in Manitoba

In 1881, Mrs. Cecil Hall's brother went to Manitoba to farm. In 1882, she went out for a visit of some two months, and followed that visit with a long sojourn in Colorado, returning to England as the snows began to...

Sibella Denton 3 hours 22 minutes

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John Cowper Powys - Confessions of Two Brothers

A short self portrait of Powys’ beliefs, temperament and peculiarities which prefigures his later, greater Autobiography. (Summary by Keri Ford)

Keri Ford and 1 more 5 hours 31 minutes

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War & Military

Thomas Wentworth Higginson - Army Life in a Black Regiment

These pages record some of the adventures of the First South Carolina Volunteers, the first slave regiment mustered into the service of the United States during the late civil war. It was, indeed, the first colored...

FNH 8 hours 40 minutes

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Lawrence Beesley - Loss of the S. S. Titanic

This is a 1st hand account written by a survivor of the Titanic about that fateful night and the events leading up to it as well as the events that followed its sinking. — Summary written by Allyson Hester

Allyson Hester 5 hours 27 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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