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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...

TriciaG 3 hours 19 minutes Chronicles of Canada Series

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War & Military

Francis Key Howard - Fourteen Months in American Bastiles

Francis Key Howard recounts in this book his life as a political prisoner of the United States. He points out that he was held captive at the same location where his grandfather was inspired to write the national...

Katie Riley 3 hours 21 minutes

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Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, Volume 1a

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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...

Robert Hoffman and 7 more 12 hours 56 minutes

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Biography & Autobiography

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John Hay - Abraham Lincoln: A History (Volume 1)

This is the biography of Abraham Lincoln, written by two of his private secretaries. (Summary by ashleighjane)

ashleighjane and 10 more 13 hours 45 minutes Abraham Lincoln: A History in 10 Volumes

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Travel & Geography

Reuben Gold Thwaites - Afloat on the Ohio

Afloat on the Ohio, An Historical Pilgrimage, of a Thousand Miles in a Skiff, From Redstone to Cairo. There were four of us pilgrims—my Wife, our Boy of ten and a half years, the Doctor, and I. My object in...

David Lawrence and 9 more 7 hours 21 minutes

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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...

Phil Benson 2 hours 8 minutes

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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...

Winston Tharp 1 hour 40 minutes

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War & Military

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Theodore Roosevelt - Naval War of 1812

Somewhat detailed history of naval engagements between the United States and England during the War of 1812, from a decidely American perspective. Completed by the author as a young man at age 24. After 120 years, it...

James E. Carson 19 hours 49 minutes

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Memoirs

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Lady Sarah Wilson - South African Memories

Lady Sarah Isabella Augusta Wilson was the aunt of Winston Spencer Churchill. In 1899 she became the first woman war correspondent when she was recruited to cover the Siege of Mafeking for the Daily Mail during the...

SallyMc 8 hours 5 minutes

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Travel & Geography

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Sir Henry W. Lucy - East by West, Vol. 2

East by West: a Journey in the Recess is an account of British journalist Henry Lucy's travels across America and on to the Far East in 1883, within two or three decades of the American Civil War, the Indian...

Ruth Golding 9 hours 30 minutes East by West

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Biography & Autobiography

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John Stevens Cabot Abbott - David Crockett: His Life and Adventures

David «Davy» Crockett (August 17, 1786 – March 6, 1836) was a celebrated 19th century American folk hero, frontiersman, soldier and politician. He is commonly referred to in popular culture by the epithet “King of the...

Brett W. Downey 6 hours 54 minutes

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Henry Curling - Recollections of Rifleman Harris

The recollections of a British infantryman who served in the British army during the Napoleonic Wars. ( Summary by Graham Keeling)

gkeeling 4 hours 6 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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