Modern (19th C)
63 books
Modern (19th C)
580
William Wood - Chronicles of Canada Volume 14 - The War With the United States: A Chronicle of 1812
«International disputes that end in war are not generally questions of absolute right and wrong. They may quite as well be questions of opposing rights. But, when there are rights on both sides; it is usually found...
3 hours 57 minutes
War & Military
555
Carlton McCarthy - Detailed Minutiae of Soldier Life in the Army of Northern Virginia, 1861-1865
The author, who fought as a private in the Army of Northern Virginia during the Civil War, describes the Confederate soldier’s daily struggles with hunger, illness, fear, and the perils of combat; as well as his...
4 hours 45 minutes
Modern (19th C)
669
Eliza P. Donner Houghton - Expedition of the Donner Party and its Tragic Fate
The Donner Party was a group of California-bound American settlers caught up in the «westering fever» of the 1840s. After becoming snowbound in the Sierra Nevada in the winter of 1846–1847, some of the emigrants...
10 hours 11 minutes
Memoirs
449
William Westgarth - Personal Recollections of Early Melbourne and Victoria
Son of John Westgarth, surveyor-general of customs for Scotland, was born at Edinburgh, in June 1815. He was educated at the high schools at Leith and Edinburgh, and at Dr Bruce's school at Newcastle-on-Tyne. He then...
6 hours 21 minutes
Modern (19th C)
477
Susanna Moodie - Life in the Clearings Versus the Bush
As a middle class Englishwoman Moodie did not particularly enjoy «the bush», as she called it. She and her husband moved to Belleville in 1840, which she referred to as «the clearings». Here she described urban life,...
11 hours 20 minutes
