Sue Anderson

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Captivity of Nearly Three Years Among the Savages of Nootka Sound

Memoirs

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John R. Jewitt - Captivity of Nearly Three Years Among the Savages of Nootka Sound

John Jewitt (1783-1821), a blacksmith by trade, spent the years 1803-1806 as a slave among the Nuu-chah-nulth people of Nootka Sound, off the Pacific Coast of Vancouver Island, Canada, after the trading vessel on...

Sue Anderson 5 hours 40 minutes

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Days on the Road: Crossing the Plains in 1865

Biography & Autobiography

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Sarah Raymond Herndon - Days on the Road: Crossing the Plains in 1865

“We had spent almost all our money for toll, ferrying and other expenses on the road. It might be a serious matter to be in a strange place without money... There is nothing we can spare so well as Dick.... It would...

Sue Anderson 5 hours 36 minutes

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Memoirs

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Howard R. Driggs - Ox-Team Days on the Oregon Trail

This is a memoir by an early 19th Century American settler in the Pacific Northwest. (Description by BellonaTimes)

Bellona Times and 13 more 5 hours 34 minutes

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Biography & Autobiography

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John Muir - Story of My Boyhood and Youth

«The only fire for the whole house was the kitchen stove, with a fire box about eighteen inches long and eight inches wide and deep,- scant space for three or four small sticks, around which in hard zero weather all...

Sue Anderson 5 hours 25 minutes

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Animals & Nature

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Sarah Noble Ives - Dog Heroes of Many Lands

Dogs are great, everyone knows that. And they can be heroes, too! This book brings together eleven dogs from around the world who have proven themselves heroes. — Summary by Carolin

Scotty Smith and 7 more 5 hours 23 minutes

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*Non-fiction

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Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 064

Twenty short nonfiction works chosen by the readers. Eucken's «The Failure of Speculative Philosophy,» is one of several essays devoted to timeless questions. Others are by James Howell on man, nature and the...

Peter Thomlinson and 12 more 5 hours 21 minutes Short Nonfiction Collections

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Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 054

Sixteen short nonfiction works in the public domain, independently chosen by the readers. Topics include Science and Exploration--a tribute to Egyptologist Amelia Edwards, and discourses on gravitation and relativity...

Phil Schempf and 8 more 5 hours 19 minutes Short Nonfiction Collections

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Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 045

Eighteen short nonfiction works in the public domain, independently chosen by the readers. Topics include ancient Greek thinkers--Parmenides, Demosthenes, Euclid; William Lloyd Garrison and the National Anti-Slavery...

Landon D. C. Elkind and 7 more 5 hours 18 minutes Short Nonfiction Collections

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Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 059

Sixteen short nonfiction works in the public domain, independently chosen by the readers. Volume 59 contains an eclectic mix of readings, ranging from a description of a Coney Island elephant colossus to meditations...

Gerwin Kramer and 9 more 5 hours 5 minutes Short Nonfiction Collections

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Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 052

Seventeen short nonfiction works in the public domain, independently chosen by the readers. Topics include Nature and Science--fall scenery, rose oil, large type books for low vision, the pulmotor, and the method of...

Lynne T and 7 more 5 hours 5 minutes Short Nonfiction Collections

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Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 058

Sixteen short nonfiction works in the public domain, independently chosen by the readers. The human condition is variously explored in Chesterton's essay «The Contented Man,» Shōtoku Taishi's «Laws» outlining the...

Larry Wilson and 10 more 5 hours 3 minutes Short Nonfiction Collections

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Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 047

Eighteen short nonfiction works in the public domain, independently chosen by the readers. Topics include philosophy and thought — Plato, Aristotle, Leonhard Euler, Henri Amiel, and the French Rights of Man; adventure...

Availle and 6 more 4 hours 59 minutes Short Nonfiction Collections

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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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