Sue Anderson
106 books
War & Military
427
Leander Stillwell - Story of a Common Soldier of Army Life in the Civil War, 1861-1865
Leander Stillwell was an 18-year-old Illinois farm boy, living with his family in a log cabin, when the U.S. Civil War broke out. Stillwell felt a duty «to help save the Nation;» but, as with many other young men,...
11 hours 2 minutes
Memoirs
497
Nicolas-Joseph Thiéry de Menonville - Travels to Oaxaca
Botanical Piracy! A French botanist plots to steal red dye cochineal insects from Spanish Mexico and transplant them and their cacti hosts to the French Caribbean. The year is 1776. Nicolas-Joseph Thiéry de Menonville...
10 hours 30 minutes
Memoirs
442
Benvenuto Cellini - Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini Vol 1
Cellini's autobiographical memoirs, which he began writing in Florence in 1558, give a detailed account of his singular career, as well as his loves, hatreds, passions, and delights, written in an energetic, direct,...
10 hours 14 minutes
History
476
William Clark - Journal of Lewis and Clarke (1840)
«The expedition of Messrs. Lewis and Clarke, for exploring the river Missouri, and the best communication from that to the Pacific Ocean, has had all the success which could be expected. They have traced the Missouri...
8 hours 51 minutes
*Non-fiction
431
Francis Bond Head - Rough Notes Taken During Some Rapid Journeys Across the Pampas and Among the Andes
“Galloped on with no stopping, but merely to change horses until five o’clock in the evening—very tired indeed, but... saw fresh horses in the corral, and resolved to push on. At half-past seven, after having...
7 hours 55 minutes
*Non-fiction
428
Abigail Adams - Letters of Mrs. Adams, the Wife of John Adams, Vol. 1
Abigail Adams lived the American Revolution as the wife of one of its central figures--John Adams. Her family correspondence, published along with a memoir by her grandson, Charles Francis Adams, brings that era into...
7 hours 41 minutes