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Washington Irving's Visit to England - Washington Irving
Washington Irving's Visit to England - Washington Irving
- Author: Washington Irving
- Genre: Humor / Social Science (Culture & Anthropology) / Memoirs
Famed American humorist Washington Irving published a series of short stories telling of his adventures traveling from America to England. This volume contains some of his observations about that trip, including his impressions of the English...
Nurse and Spy in the Union Army - Sarah Emma Edmonds
Nurse and Spy in the Union Army - Sarah Emma Edmonds
- Author: Sarah Emma Edmonds
- Genre: War & Military / Memoirs
The “Nurse and Spy” is simply a record of events which have transpired in the experience and under the observation of one who has been on the field and participated in numerous battles—among which are the first and second Bull Run, Williamsburg,...
Twelve Years a Slave - Solomon Northup
Twelve Years a Slave - Solomon Northup
- Author: Solomon Northup
- Genre: Memoirs
Twelve Years a Slave is the memoir of a freeborn African American from New York who is kidnapped and sold into slavery. After being held for twelve years on a Louisiana plantation, he is eventually freed and reunited with his family. (Summary by...
A Soldier's Letters to Charming Nellie - Joseph Benjamin Polley
A Soldier's Letters to Charming Nellie - Joseph Benjamin Polley
- Author: Joseph Benjamin Polley
- Genre: Memoirs
Whether written in camp, in hospital, or in hospitable home, the letters tell a plain, unvarnished, and true story of the observations and experiences, the impressions and feelings, of a soldier whose only personal regret is that he could not be one...
Reminiscences and Table-Talk of Samuel Rogers - Banker, Poet and Patron of the Arts (1763-1855) - Samuel Rogers
Reminiscences and Table-Talk of Samuel Rogers - Banker, Poet and Patron of the Arts (1763-1855) - Samuel Rogers
- Author: Samuel Rogers
- Genre: Memoirs
Samuel Rogers was a renowned conversationalist who associated with the most distinguished persons of his time. This volume contains fascinating source material for the social and literary history of Great Britain over the span of his long life. -...
The Memoirs of Chateaubriand Volume III - François-René de Chateaubriand
The Memoirs of Chateaubriand Volume III - François-René de Chateaubriand
- Author: François-René de Chateaubriand
- Genre: Memoirs
The third volume of Teixeira de Mattos' translation of Chateaubriand's Memoirs from Beyond the Tomb covers the spectacular fall, exile, and death of Napoleon, and is replete with the author's trenchant views on the some of the most significant...
Adrift on an Ice-Pan - Sir Wilfred Grenfell
Adrift on an Ice-Pan - Sir Wilfred Grenfell
- Author: Sir Wilfred Grenfell
- Genre: Memoirs
This autobiographical work describes the author's harrowing experience caught on a small drifting piece of ice, while crossing a frozen bay by dog team on the Northern Peninsula of Newfoundland. (Summary by Sean Michael Hogan)...
From the Darkness Cometh the Light, or Struggles for Freedom - Lucy Ann Delaney
From the Darkness Cometh the Light, or Struggles for Freedom - Lucy Ann Delaney
- Author: Lucy Ann Delaney
- Genre: Memoirs
In From the Darkness Cometh the Light, or Struggles for Freedom Delaney tells the story of how she was born into slavery of her mother--a freeborn black woman who had been kidnapped and sold on the blocks--but escaped while a teenager and eventually...
The Complete Works of George Savile, first Marquess of Halifax, with an Introduction by Walter Alexander Raleigh - George Savile Marquis of Halifax
The Complete Works of George Savile, first Marquess of Halifax, with an Introduction by Walter Alexander Raleigh - George Savile Marquis of Halifax
- Author: George Savile Marquis of Halifax
- Genre: Memoirs
George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax (11 November 1633 – 5 April 1695) was an English statesman, writer, and politician who sat in the House of Commons in 1660, and in the House of Lords after he was raised to the peerage in 1668. He's noted in...
Beasts, Men and Gods - Ferdinand Ossendowski
Beasts, Men and Gods - Ferdinand Ossendowski
- Author: Ferdinand Ossendowski
- Genre: Travel & Geography / Memoirs / Modern (20th C)
“Beasts, Men and Gods” is an account of an epic journey, filled with perils and narrow escapes, in the mold of “The Lord of the Rings.” The difference is: it’s all true. Ferdinand Ossendowski was a Pole who found himself in Siberia and on the losing...
Ox-Team Days on the Oregon Trail - Ezra Meeker
Ox-Team Days on the Oregon Trail - Ezra Meeker
- Author: Ezra Meeker
- Genre: Memoirs / Modern (19th C)
This is a memoir by an early 19th Century American settler in the Pacific Northwest. (Description by BellonaTimes)...
Army Letters from an Officer's Wife, 1871-1888 - Frances M. A. Roe
Army Letters from an Officer's Wife, 1871-1888 - Frances M. A. Roe
- Author: Frances M. A. Roe
- Genre: War & Military / Memoirs / Letters
"There appeared from the bushes in front of me, and right in the path, two immense gray wolves . . . Rollo saw them and stopped instantly, giving deep sighs, preparing to snort, I knew . . . To give myself courage, I talked to the horse, slowly...
Screen Acting - Mae Marsh
Screen Acting - Mae Marsh
- Author: Mae Marsh
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Memoirs
Silent film star, Mae Marsh, recounts her life as an actress in this publication, what she deems as being the answer to thousands of letters written to her over the years inquiring about what it takes to be a screen actor. As she states in the...
Father and Son - Edmund Gosse
Father and Son - Edmund Gosse
- Author: Edmund Gosse
- Genre: Memoirs
Father and Son (1907) is a memoir by poet and critic Edmund Gosse, which he subtitled "a study of two temperaments." The book describes Edmund's early years in an exceptionally devout Plymouth Brethren home. His mother, who dies early and painfully...
Mountaineering in the Sierra Nevada - Clarence King
Mountaineering in the Sierra Nevada - Clarence King
- Author: Clarence King
- Genre: Memoirs
"Mountaineering in the Sierra Nevada" is a memoir by Clarence King of his adventures and work with the California Geological Survey. King later led a major survey along the 40th Parallel in the American West and then was appointed the first director...
On an Irish Jaunting-Car through Donegal and Connemara - Samuel Gamble Bayne
On an Irish Jaunting-Car through Donegal and Connemara - Samuel Gamble Bayne
- Author: Samuel Gamble Bayne
- Genre: Social Science (Culture & Anthropology) / Travel & Geography / Memoirs
This book gives a brief glimpse into the social history of Ireland in the early part of the 20th Century. During his 1902 tour through the north, west and south of Ireland the author provides entertaining insights into how those parts of Ireland...
Fighting the Flying Circus - Eddie Rickenbacker
Fighting the Flying Circus - Eddie Rickenbacker
- Author: Eddie Rickenbacker
- Genre: *Non-fiction / War & Military / Memoirs
This is the WWI memoirs of Medal of Honor winner, Capt Eddie Rickenbacker. He fought in and eventually became commander of the 94th "Hat-in-the-Ring" Squadron, which ended the war with the highest number of air victories of any American squadron....
Abraham Lincoln: A History (Volume 2) - John Hay
Abraham Lincoln: A History (Volume 2) - John Hay
- Author: John Hay
- Genre: Memoirs
Abraham Lincoln: A History is an 1890 ten-volume account of the life and times of Abraham Lincoln, written by John Nicolay and John Hay, who were his personal secretaries during the American Civil War. Volume 2 chronicles Lincoln's life from...
The Diary of Samuel Pepys 1660 - Samuel PEPYS
The Diary of Samuel Pepys 1660 - Samuel PEPYS
- Author: Samuel PEPYS
- Genre: Memoirs
Samuel Pepys was the first Secretary to the Admiralty during the reign of Charles II, instrumental in developing the Royal Navy and witness to some of the most significant events of the Restoration period, including the Great Fire of London. His...
Through the Brazilian Wilderness - Theodore Roosevelt
Through the Brazilian Wilderness - Theodore Roosevelt
- Author: Theodore Roosevelt
- Genre: Memoirs / Exploration
Roosevelt's popular book Through the Brazilian Wilderness describes his expedition into the Brazilian jungle in 1913 as a member of the Roosevelt-Rondon Scientific Expedition co-named after its leader, Brazilian explorer Cândido Rondon. The book...
Travels in Alaska - John Muir
Travels in Alaska - John Muir
- Author: John Muir
- Genre: Travel & Geography / Memoirs
In 1879 John Muir went to Alaska for the first time. Its stupendous living glaciers aroused his unbounded interest, for they enabled him to verify his theories of glacial action. Again and again he returned to this continental laboratory of...
A Lady's Captivity among Chinese Pirates in the Chinese Seas - Fanny LOVIOT
A Lady's Captivity among Chinese Pirates in the Chinese Seas - Fanny LOVIOT
- Author: Fanny LOVIOT
- Genre: Memoirs
This thrilling narrative recounts the true story of Fanny Loviot, a wealthy, young French girl who was kidnapped at sea. After setting sail for California in 1855, Fanny's boat was overtaken by Chinese pirates who held her hostage and demanded a...
Army Life in a Black Regiment - Thomas Wentworth Higginson
Army Life in a Black Regiment - Thomas Wentworth Higginson
- Author: Thomas Wentworth Higginson
- Genre: War & Military / Social Science (Culture & Anthropology) / Memoirs
These pages record some of the adventures of the First South Carolina Volunteers, the first slave regiment mustered into the service of the United States during the late civil war. It was, indeed, the first colored regiment of any kind so mustered,...
In Galilee - Thornton CHASE
In Galilee - Thornton CHASE
- Author: Thornton CHASE
- Genre: Memoirs / Other religions
Thornton Chase is commonly recognized as the first convert to the Bahá'í Faith of Occidental background. During his life he organized many Bahá'í activities in Chicago and Los Angeles and was considered a prominent Bahá'í. In 1907 Chase was able to...
A Cruising Voyage Around the World - Woodes ROGERS
A Cruising Voyage Around the World - Woodes ROGERS
- Author: Woodes ROGERS
- Genre: Memoirs
First to the South-seas, Thence to the East-Indies, and Homewards by the Cape of Good Hope. Begun in 1708, and Finish'd in 1711. Containing a Journal of All the Remarkable Transactions; Particularly, of the Taking of Puna and Guiaquil, of the...
Plunkitt of Tammany Hall - George Washington PLUNKITT
Plunkitt of Tammany Hall - George Washington PLUNKITT
- Author: George Washington PLUNKITT
- Genre: Political Science / Memoirs
"I seen my opportunities and I took 'em.", George Washington Plunkitt of Tamminy Hall. There's good graft and bad graft according to Plunkitt. Listen to this candid discourse from a 19th century politician, and decide for yourself if things have...
Our Search for a Wilderness, An Account of Two Ornithological Expeditions to Venezuela and British Guiana - William BEEBE
Our Search for a Wilderness, An Account of Two Ornithological Expeditions to Venezuela and British Guiana - William BEEBE
- Author: William BEEBE
- Genre: Animals / Nature / Memoirs
In 1908-1909, Mary Blair Beebe and her husband, C. William Beebe made two private expeditions to Venezuela and British Guiana, exploring and collecting live birds for the New York Zoological Park. They then collaborated on a book about their "search...
Fourteen Months in American Bastiles - Francis Key HOWARD
Fourteen Months in American Bastiles - Francis Key HOWARD
- Author: Francis Key HOWARD
- Genre: War & Military / Memoirs / Modern (19th C)
Francis Key Howard recounts in this book his life as a political prisoner of the United States. He points out that he was held captive at the same location where his grandfather was inspired to write the national anthem about the "land of the free,"...
Gallipoli Diary - John Graham GILLAM
Gallipoli Diary - John Graham GILLAM
- Author: John Graham GILLAM
- Genre: War & Military / Memoirs
Major John Graham Gillam, British Supply Officer, wrote in his World War I Gallipoli Diary that when he sailed from England for the Dardanelles in March, 1915, he had visions of “trekking up the Gallipoli Peninsula with the Navy bombarding a way for...
Autobiography of a Seaman, Vol. 1 - Lord Thomas COCHRANE
Autobiography of a Seaman, Vol. 1 - Lord Thomas COCHRANE
- Author: Lord Thomas COCHRANE
- Genre: War & Military / Memoirs
This two volume work is the autobiography of Lord Cochrane, a naval captain of the Napoleonic period. His adventures are seminal to the development of naval fiction as a genre. Marryat sailed with Cochrane, while later writers borrowed incidents...
Iconoclastic Memories of the Civil War - Ambrose Bierce
Iconoclastic Memories of the Civil War - Ambrose Bierce
- Author: Ambrose Bierce
- Genre: War & Military / Memoirs / Modern (19th C)
At the outset of the American Civil War, [the writer Ambrose] Bierce enlisted in the Union Army's 9th Indiana Infantry Regiment....In February 1862 he was commissioned First Lieutenant, and served on the staff of General William Babcock Hazen as a...
Glimpses of Bengal - Rabindranath Tagore
Glimpses of Bengal - Rabindranath Tagore
- Author: Rabindranath Tagore
- Genre: Travel & Geography / Memoirs / Letters
The book is a selection of letters written by Tagore, in various places in Bengal, India....
Station Life in New Zealand - Mary Anne BARKER
Station Life in New Zealand - Mary Anne BARKER
- Author: Mary Anne BARKER
- Genre: *Non-fiction / History / Memoirs
Station Life in New Zealand is a collection of cheerful and interesting letters written by Lady Mary Anne Barker (nee Mary Anne Stewart) that is a New Zealand "classic". These letters are described in the Preface as "the exact account of a lady's...
Eighteen Months' Imprisonment - Donald SHAW
Eighteen Months' Imprisonment - Donald SHAW
- Author: Donald SHAW
- Genre: Memoirs
This is an absorbing memoir of an inmate's experiences and impressions while in a London prison. He describes himself as "a man of education and worldly experience" and weighing "19 stone 13 lbs" (279 lbs), a stone being 14 lbs, at the beginning of...
By Ox Team to California - A Narrative of Crossing the Plains in 1860 - Lavinia Honeyman PORTER
By Ox Team to California - A Narrative of Crossing the Plains in 1860 - Lavinia Honeyman PORTER
- Author: Lavinia Honeyman PORTER
- Genre: Travel & Geography / Memoirs
Imagine a young, twenty-something woman in 1860, reared “in the indolent life of the ordinary Southern girl” (which means she has never learned to cook); married to a professional man who knows “nothing of manual labor;” who is mother to a young...
Autobiography of a Seaman, Vol. 2 - Lord Thomas COCHRANE
Autobiography of a Seaman, Vol. 2 - Lord Thomas COCHRANE
- Author: Lord Thomas COCHRANE
- Genre: War & Military / Memoirs / Modern (19th C)
This second volume of the biography of Lord Cochrane deals with his fall from grace, imprisonment for debt, loss of honours, and attempts to clear his name. It has had a marked influence on naval fiction, most obviously on some of the novels by...
Twenty Years at Hull House - Jane ADDAMS
Twenty Years at Hull House - Jane ADDAMS
- Author: Jane ADDAMS
- Genre: Political Science / Memoirs
Jane Addams was the first American woman to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. In a long, complex career, she was a pioneer settlement worker and founder of Hull-House in Chicago, public philosopher (the first American woman in that role), author,...
Anabasis - Xenophon
Anabasis - Xenophon
- Author: Xenophon
- Genre: War & Military / Memoirs / Antiquity
Xenophon the Athenian was born 431 B.C. He was a pupil of Socrates. He marched with the Spartans, and was exiled from Athens. Sparta gave him land and property in Scillus, where he lived for many years before having to move once more, to settle in...
The Long Ago - Jacob William WRIGHT
The Long Ago - Jacob William WRIGHT
- Author: Jacob William WRIGHT
- Genre: Memoirs
Short memory of boyhood by a little-known American poet based in Carmel-By-The-Sea, California. (Summary by BellonaTimes)...
Prisoner for Blasphemy - George William FOOTE
Prisoner for Blasphemy - George William FOOTE
- Author: George William FOOTE
- Genre: Memoirs / Atheism & Agnosticism
George William Foote, a British secularist, was convicted and imprisoned on the charge of blasphemy after founding "The Freethinker", a magazine that, despite the best efforts of the 19th Century British judicial system, is still going strong....