Kristine Bekere
118 books
Travel & Geography
1.1K
John Timbs - Mountain Adventures in the Various Countries of the World
Mountains have always been fascinating as places of special adventure. This book. first published in 1869, collects true stories of real-life adventurers climbing the world's most famous and most challenging...
8 hours 14 minutes
Literary Collections
1.3K
Ulysses S. Grant - State of the Union Addresses by United States Presidents (1869 - 1876)
The State of the Union address is a speech presented by the President of the United States to a joint session of the United States Congress, typically delivered annually. The address not only reports on the condition...
7 hours 44 minutes
Children's Fiction
1.2K
Hugh Lofting - Voyages of Doctor Dolittle
Doctor John Dolittle is the central character of a series of children's books by Hugh Lofting. He is a doctor who shuns human patients in favour of animals, with whom he can speak in their own languages. He later...
7 hours 42 minutes
Political Science
1.9K
William Jennings Bryan - World’s Famous Orations, Vol. V: Great Britain - III
In 1906, William Jennings Bryan, himself a famous American orator, and Francis Whiting Halsey published a series of the most famous orations of all time. They are ordered by both geographic area and time period,...
7 hours 27 minutes
General Fiction
1.1K
Garrett P. Serviss - Edison's Conquest of Mars
Edison's Conquest of Mars, by Garrett P. Serviss, is one of the many science fiction novels published in the nineteenth century. Although science fiction was not at the time thought of as a distinct literary genre, it...
7 hours 4 minutes
Literary Collections
1.7K
Chester A. Arthur - State of the Union Addresses by United States Presidents (1877 - 1884)
The State of the Union address is a speech presented by the President of the United States to a joint session of the United States Congress, typically delivered annually. The address not only reports on the condition...
6 hours 53 minutes
