Modern (19th C)
63 books
Modern (19th C)
989
Stephen Leacock - Chronicles of Canada Volume 20 - Adventurers of the Far North
This is volume 20 of The Chronicles of Canada series . This volume describes the explorers who braved the Canadian Arctic in search of the Northwest Passage, focusing on Samuel Hearne, Sir Alexander Mackenzie, and...
3 hours 19 minutes
Political Science
1.8K
Jefferson Davis - Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, Volume 1a
The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government (1881) is written by Jefferson Davis, former President of the Confederate States of America during the American Civil War. Davis wrote the book as a straightforward...
12 hours 56 minutes
Modern (19th C)
851
Francis Archibald Bruton - Three Accounts of Peterloo
A companion volume to F.A. Bruton's 'The Story of Peterloo', the full title of this short collection is 'Three Accounts of Peterloo by Eyewitnesses, Bishop Stanley, Lord Hylton, John Benjamin Smith with Bishop...
2 hours 8 minutes
War & Military
958
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...
1 hour 40 minutes
