James K. White
92 books
Nature
512
Horace Kephart - book of camping and woodcraft : a guidebook for those who travel in the wilderness
In the Introduction to Camping and Woodcraft, Horace Kephart wrote: “My one aim in writing this little book is to make it of practical service to those who seek rest or sport in the wilderness, or whose business calls...
12 hours 31 minutes
*Non-fiction
410
Frances Anne Kemble - Journal of A Residence On A Georgian Plantation, 1838-1839
Fanny Kemble was a British actress who married mega-plantation owner, Pierce Butler of Georgia. During her marriage she kept journals of everyday life, and after some years grew to detest the institution of slavery...
11 hours 59 minutes
Memoirs
475
Charles Ball - Fifty Years in Chains; or The Life of an American Slave
This is the story of Charles Ball, an American slave who was born in 1780 and remained a slave for fifty years thereafter. Ball told his story to a lawyer who turned it into this written work. (Summary by Tom Causby)
10 hours 47 minutes
*Non-fiction
482
Henry Ossian Flipper - Colored Cadet at West Point
Henry Ossian Flipper--born into slavery in Thomasville, Georgia on March 21, 1856--did not learn to read and write until just before the end of the Civil War. Once the war had ended, Flipper attended several schools...
10 hours 32 minutes
War & Military
473
Mary Roberts Rinehart - Kings, Queens and Pawns: An American Woman at the Front
A personal account of the American author's visit to Europe in January 1915 while a war correspondent in Belgium for The Saturday Evening Post. She writes: «War is not two great armies meeting in a clash and frenzy of...
10 hours 27 minutes
