Memoirs
128 books
Memoirs
592
John R. Jewitt - Captivity of Nearly Three Years Among the Savages of Nootka Sound
John Jewitt (1783-1821), a blacksmith by trade, spent the years 1803-1806 as a slave among the Nuu-chah-nulth people of Nootka Sound, off the Pacific Coast of Vancouver Island, Canada, after the trading vessel on...
5 hours 40 minutes
Memoirs
444
Henriette Lucie Dillon, marquise de La Tour du Pin Gouvernet - Recollections of the Revolution and the Empire
An aristocratic Frenchwoman's personal record of the dazzling extravagance of the Ancien Régime, of the court of Marie Antoinette, of the Revolution, of her life in exile (partly in Upstate New York) and of the court...
12 hours 36 minutes
Memoirs
449
Booker T. Washington - Up From Slavery: An Autobiography (version 2)
Up from Slavery is the 1901 autobiography of Booker T. Washington sharing his personal experience of having to work to rise up from the position of a slave child during the Civil War, to the difficulties and obstacles...
7 hours 22 minutes
Memoirs
470
François-René de Chateaubriand - Memoirs of Chateaubriand 1768 to 1800
This is the first volume of Chateaubriand's Memoires d'Outre Tombe, in a Victorian translation. It covers the period from his birth, including the extraordinarily evocative childhood years and his travels in America,...
16 hours 18 minutes
Memoirs
415
Albert Millican - Travels and adventures of an orchid hunter: An account of canoe and camp life in Colombia, while collecting orchids in the northern Andes
This is quite the adventure tale and travelog. We see cities, peoples, plants and wildlife of Columbia and the ports our intrepid 'hunter' visits on the way there and back. It is an interesting period; a canal is...
4 hours 47 minutes
Memoirs
428
Samuel Rogers - Reminiscences and Table-Talk of Samuel Rogers - Banker, Poet and Patron of the Arts (1763-1855)
Samuel Rogers was a renowned conversationalist who associated with the most distinguished persons of his time. This volume contains fascinating source material for the social and literary history of Great Britain over...
5 hours 46 minutes
*Non-fiction
451
E. W. Hornung - Notes of a Camp Follower on the Western Front
In 1915 Oscar Hornung, son of the famous author E W Hornung, was killed at Ypres after less than a year as a soldier in Flanders. He was only 20. Two years later E W Hornung volunteered to help run one of the YMCA...
5 hours 33 minutes
