Modern (19th C)
63 books
Modern (19th C)
469
Owen Chase - Shipwreck of the Whale-ship Essex
Owen Chase (October 7, 1797 – March 7, 1869) was First Mate of the whale ship Essex, that was struck and sunk by a sperm whale on October 28, 1820. Chase wrote about the incident in Narrative of the Most Extraordinary...
2 hours 30 minutes
Modern (19th C)
466
Harry Brittain - Notes on The Broads and Rivers of Norfolk and Suffolk
The Broads area of Norfolk and Suffolk is in the East Anglian region of England. It is the location of Britain's third largest inland waterway system — a system that evolved gradually by natural flooding as a...
5 hours 3 minutes
War & Military
399
Edward Gilliat - Romance Of Modern Sieges; Describing The Personal Adventures, Resource And Daring of Besiegers and Besieged In All Parts Of The World
Lively narratives of some of the great siege battles of war. The book was written before World War I, in 1908. Some of the narratives contain language which was common in 19th and early twentieth century usage but...
10 hours 47 minutes
Modern (19th C)
536
Oscar Penn Fitzgerald - California Sketches New And Old
Here we meet all sorts of characters and situations in California’s early history: gunmen, outlaws, lynch mobs, raging storms, mining camps, lost clergymen, freed slaves, Northern sympathizers, Southern sympathizers,...
11 hours 13 minutes
