Memoirs - a genre of audiobooks on the website knigi-audio.com/en/. Page - 5
The Early History of the Airplane - Orville WRIGHT
The Early History of the Airplane - Orville WRIGHT
- Author: Orville WRIGHT
- Genre: Essays & Short Works / Technology & Engineering / Memoirs
The Brothers Orville and Wilbur Wright made the first controlled, powered and sustained heavier-than-air flight, on 17th December 1903. They were not the first to build and fly aircraft, but they invented the controls that were necessary for a pilot...
The Travels of Ibn Batuta - Ibn BATTUTA
The Travels of Ibn Batuta - Ibn BATTUTA
- Author: Ibn BATTUTA
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography / Memoirs
Ibn Battuta (1304 – ca. 1369), was a Moroccan explorer. Over a period of thirty years, Ibn Battuta visited most of the known Islamic world as well as many non-Muslim lands. His journeys included trips to North Africa, West Africa, the Horn of...
The Real Latin Quarter - Frank Berkeley SMITH
The Real Latin Quarter - Frank Berkeley SMITH
- Author: Frank Berkeley SMITH
- Genre: Art / Design & Architecture / Social Science (Culture & Anthropology) / Memoirs
"Cocher, drive to the rue Falguière"--this in my best restaurant French. The man with the varnished hat shrugged his shoulders, and raised his eyebrows in doubt. He evidently had never heard of the rue Falguière. "Yes, rue Falguière, the old rue des...
A Narrative of the Expedition to Dongola and Sennaar - George Bethune ENGLISH
A Narrative of the Expedition to Dongola and Sennaar - George Bethune ENGLISH
- Author: George Bethune ENGLISH
- Genre: War & Military / Travel & Geography / Memoirs
As a second lieutenant in the United States Marine Corps during the War of 1812 assigned to Marine Corps headquarters, English sailed to the Mediterranean, and was among the first citizens of the United States known to have visited Egypt. Shortly...
War - Pierre Loti
War - Pierre Loti
- Author: Pierre Loti
- Genre: War & Military / History / Memoirs
Pierre Loti [Julien Viaud] (1850-1923) was a French naval officer and novelist. The present book is one of his few works of non-fiction, a small collection of letters and diary entries that describe his views and experiences in the wars and military...
The Life-Story of a Russian Exile - Marie SUKLOFF
The Life-Story of a Russian Exile - Marie SUKLOFF
- Author: Marie SUKLOFF
- Genre: Political Science / Memoirs / Modern (20th C)
Hero or assassin? Victim or criminal? Marie Sukloff fits no easy category. A young peasant woman who became a political radical and activist, Sukloff carried out an assassination plot against a Russian governor known for murderous pogroms and...
A Journal from Japan - Marie STOPES
A Journal from Japan - Marie STOPES
- Author: Marie STOPES
- Genre: Travel & Geography / Memoirs
Marie Stopes was a highly controversial scientist and activist in her era, campaigning for radical new views of love-based marriage, birth control, and women’s rights. As a scientist, she was a renowned palaeobotanist, specializing in issues...
Three Years in the Federal Cavalry - Willard GLAZIER
Three Years in the Federal Cavalry - Willard GLAZIER
- Author: Willard GLAZIER
- Genre: Memoirs
Captain Glazier narrates his experiences as a cavalryman in the Federal Army during the Civil War, from his enlistment in New York State to his capture at the battle of Brandy Station. (Summary by Jonathan Limebrook)...
The River War - An Account of the Reconquest of the Sudan - Winston S. CHURCHILL
The River War - An Account of the Reconquest of the Sudan - Winston S. CHURCHILL
- Author: Winston S. CHURCHILL
- Genre: War & Military / History / Memoirs
When the self-proclaimed Mahdi (“Guided One”) gathered Islamic forces and kicked the Anglo-Egyptians out of the Sudan, he unleashed a backlash. With the image of the heroic General Charles Gordon dying at Khartoum, the British public was ready to...
Mounted police life in Canada : a record of thirty-one years' service (1916) - Richard Burton DEANE
Mounted police life in Canada : a record of thirty-one years' service (1916) - Richard Burton DEANE
- Author: Richard Burton DEANE
- Genre: Memoirs
Learn more about the famous and respected Royal Canadian Mounted Police. This book is the personal recollections of one ‘Mountie'; his life, experiences and trials as an officer in a new frontier – The Canadian Northwest. (Summary by Esther)...
Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini Vol 1 - Benvenuto CELLINI
Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini Vol 1 - Benvenuto CELLINI
- Author: Benvenuto CELLINI
- Genre: Memoirs / Early Modern
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, and racy style. They show a great...
Diary and Letters of Madame D'Arblay - Thomas Babington Macaulay
Diary and Letters of Madame D'Arblay - Thomas Babington Macaulay
- Author: Thomas Babington Macaulay
- Genre: Memoirs
An review essay of "Diary and Letters of Madame D'Arblay". The Edinburgh Review, January, 1843. Reprinted in vol. iii of Macaulay's Critical and Historical Essays. "Hundreds of remarkable persons had passed in review before her....The account which...
The Escaping Club - A. J. EVANS
The Escaping Club - A. J. EVANS
- Author: A. J. EVANS
- Genre: War & Military / Memoirs / Modern (20th C)
Described by some as one of the greatest escape books published. The Escaping Club recounts Evans' escape to Switzerland from a supposedly "escape-proof" German prison camp during World War I. After repatriation and rejoining the war, Evans again...
Memoirs of Madame Vigée Lebrun - Élisabeth Louise Vigée LE BRUN
Memoirs of Madame Vigée Lebrun - Élisabeth Louise Vigée LE BRUN
- Author: Élisabeth Louise Vigée LE BRUN
- Genre: Memoirs
This memoirs chronicles Madame Vigée Lebrun's childhood and the early discovery of her talent, the fortuitous break that introduced her to the world of "portraiture of the stars," her expeditious flight from France at the height of the French...
Tim Bobbin: A View of the Lancashire Dialect - Various
Tim Bobbin: A View of the Lancashire Dialect - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Humorous Fiction / Biography & Autobiography / Memoirs
A comic dialogue written in John Collier's idiosyncratic version of the 18th century South Lancashire dialect together with a collection of 19th century texts on Collier and his work. Egged on by Meary (Mary), Tummus (Thomas) recounts the series of...
Eighteen Months in the War Zone: A Record of a Woman's Work on the Western Front - Kate John FINZI
Eighteen Months in the War Zone: A Record of a Woman's Work on the Western Front - Kate John FINZI
- Author: Kate John FINZI
- Genre: War & Military / Memoirs
"But it is not for those who heard the call in the later months so much as in memory of those early heroes of Mons, who knew the bitterness of a valiant retreat, the horror of forced marches along parched roads, with only the prod of the next man's...
The History of the Suez Canal - Ferdinand de LESSEPS
The History of the Suez Canal - Ferdinand de LESSEPS
- Author: Ferdinand de LESSEPS
- Genre: Art / Design & Architecture / Memoirs / Modern (19th C)
A lively picture of the origin and completion of the Suez Canal (built between 1859 and 1869) and his architect, Vicomte de Lesseps. This is the translation of a lecture given before the Societe de Gens Lettres in Paris, in April 1870 by de Lesseps...
Confessions of Two Brothers - John Cowper POWYS
Confessions of Two Brothers - John Cowper POWYS
- Author: John Cowper POWYS
- Genre: Memoirs
A short self portrait of Powys’ beliefs, temperament and peculiarities which prefigures his later, greater Autobiography. (Summary by Keri Ford)...
Memories of Childhood's Slavery Days - Annie L. BURTON
Memories of Childhood's Slavery Days - Annie L. BURTON
- Author: Annie L. BURTON
- Genre: Memoirs
This is a short and simple, yet poignant autobiography of Annie Burton, who recounts her early carefree childhood as a slave on a southern plantation while the Civil War raged around her, and after the Emancipation Proclamation, how her life changed...
A Gold Hunter's Experience - Chalkley J. HAMBLETON
A Gold Hunter's Experience - Chalkley J. HAMBLETON
- Author: Chalkley J. HAMBLETON
- Genre: Memoirs
"Early in the summer of 1860, I had an attack of gold fever. In Chicago, the conditions for such a malady were all favorable. Since the panic of 1857 there had been three years of general depression, money was scarce, there was little activity in...
The Elephant Man and other reminiscences - Frederick TREVES
The Elephant Man and other reminiscences - Frederick TREVES
- Author: Frederick TREVES
- Genre: Medical / Memoirs
In 1884, Professor Treves saw Joseph Merrick (known as the "Elephant Man") in a shop across the road from the London Hospital. Being also a teacher at the University, he brought Merrick to the London Hospital as a teaching case, and Merrick lived...
A Negro Explorer at the North Pole - Matthew A. HENSON
A Negro Explorer at the North Pole - Matthew A. HENSON
- Author: Matthew A. HENSON
- Genre: Memoirs
In this fascinating memoir, Matthew Henson describes the incredibly dangerous, exhausting, and bone-chilling trip to what was until then the never-before reached point on earth, the North Pole."Robert Peary is remembered as the intrepid explorer who...
Narrative of the operations and recent discoveries within the pyramids, temples, tombs, and excavations, in Egypt and Nubia - Giovanni Battista BELZONI
Narrative of the operations and recent discoveries within the pyramids, temples, tombs, and excavations, in Egypt and Nubia - Giovanni Battista BELZONI
- Author: Giovanni Battista BELZONI
- Genre: Art / Design & Architecture / Memoirs / Modern (19th C)
Giovanni Battista Belzoni (1778 – 1823) was an Italian explorer and pioneer archaeologist of Egyptian antiquities. He is known for his removal to England of the seven ton bust of Ramesses II, the clearing of sand from the entrance of the great...
Recollections of Imperial Russia - Meriel BUCHANAN
Recollections of Imperial Russia - Meriel BUCHANAN
- Author: Meriel BUCHANAN
- Genre: Social Science (Culture & Anthropology) / Memoirs
In this memoir, Meriel Buchanan (9-5-1886 to 2-6-1959) links the history of Russia to powerful, lingering memories of her years living there. She was the daughter of the man who turned out to be the last British ambassador to Imperial Russia. As a...
Chancellorsville and Gettysburg - Abner DOUBLEDAY
Chancellorsville and Gettysburg - Abner DOUBLEDAY
- Author: Abner DOUBLEDAY
- Genre: War & Military / Memoirs / Modern (19th C)
Abner Doubleday began the Civil War as a Union officer and aimed the first cannon shot in response to the bombardment opened on Ft. Sumter in 1861. Two years later, after a series of battles (including Antietam, where he was wounded), Doubleday took...
A Narrative of a Revolutionary Soldier: Some of the Adventures, Dangers, and Sufferings of Joseph Plumb Martin - Joseph Plumb MARTIN
A Narrative of a Revolutionary Soldier: Some of the Adventures, Dangers, and Sufferings of Joseph Plumb Martin - Joseph Plumb MARTIN
- Author: Joseph Plumb MARTIN
- Genre: War & Military / Memoirs / Early Modern
Joining the Continental Army as a teenager, Joseph Plumb Martin spent the next eight years fighting in the Revolutionary War as an enlisted man. His memoirs tell in detail his experiences during that time...the bitter cold, hunger, loss of life,...
The Cruise of the Snark - Jack London
The Cruise of the Snark - Jack London
- Author: Jack London
- Genre: Memoirs
The Cruise of the Snark (1913) is a memoir of Jack and Charmian London's 1907-1909 voyage across the Pacific. His descriptions of "surf-riding", which he dubbed a "royal sport", helped introduce it to and popularize it with the mainland. London...
The Wound Dresser - Walt Whitman
The Wound Dresser - Walt Whitman
- Author: Walt Whitman
- Genre: War & Military / Memoirs / Letters
The Wound Dresser is a series of letters written from the hospitals in Washington by Walt Whitman during the War of the Rebellion to The New York Times, the Brooklyn Eagle and his mother, edited by Richard Maurice Burke, M.D., one of Whitman's...
Outwitting The Hun; My Escape From A German Prison Camp - Pat O'Brien
Outwitting The Hun; My Escape From A German Prison Camp - Pat O'Brien
- Author: Pat O'Brien
- Genre: War & Military / Memoirs
A true war narrative, published in 1918 while WWI was still going on. (Summary by David Wales)...
Five Years of My Life 1894-1899 - Alfred Dreyfus
Five Years of My Life 1894-1899 - Alfred Dreyfus
- Author: Alfred Dreyfus
- Genre: Memoirs / Letters
Alfred Dreyfus, a Jewish captain in the French Army was court martialed in 1894 on a trumped up charge of treason and condemned to life imprisonment on Devil’s island, a penal colony off French Guiana. His prison diary, published as Five Years of My...
Memories of Old Montana - Con Price
Memories of Old Montana - Con Price
- Author: Con Price
- Genre: Memoirs
Con Price recalls the 1870s through the 1940s, growing up in Iowa and South Dakota before heading out on a cattle drive into Montana. Never dull, his life was full of experiences from cattle drives to Indian encounters to cattle wars to frontier...
In the Field (1914-1915) - Marcel Dupont
In the Field (1914-1915) - Marcel Dupont
- Author: Marcel Dupont
- Genre: War & Military / Memoirs / Modern (20th C)
I have merely tried to make a written record of some of the hours I have lived through during the course of this war. A modest Lieutenant of Chasseurs, I cannot claim to form any opinion as to the operations which have been carried out for the last...
From Plotzk to Boston - Mary ANTIN
From Plotzk to Boston - Mary ANTIN
- Author: Mary ANTIN
- Genre: Memoirs
An intensely personal account of the immigration experience as related by a young Jewish girl from Plotzk (a town in the government of Vitebsk, Russia). Mary Antin, with her mother, sisters, and brother, set out from Plotzk in 1894 to join their...
Confessions, volumes 3 and 4 - Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Confessions, volumes 3 and 4 - Jean-Jacques Rousseau
- Author: Jean-Jacques Rousseau
- Genre: Psychology / Memoirs
“The smallest, the most trifling pleasure that is conveniently within my reach, tempts me more than all the joys of paradise.” Here again is the youthful, hero-worshiping Jean-Jacques – displaying an emotional immaturity that leads him into...
The Journal of Nicholas Cresswell, 1774-1777 - Nicholas Cresswell
The Journal of Nicholas Cresswell, 1774-1777 - Nicholas Cresswell
- Author: Nicholas Cresswell
- Genre: Memoirs
Against his family's wishes, the son of an English landowner emigrates to America in 1774 for reasons he won't reveal. His adventures take him from Barbados to trade cotton, to the Ohio frontier in search of farmland, and back to the ruins of New...
Memoir, Correspondence and Miscellanies, Volume I - Thomas JEFFERSON
Memoir, Correspondence and Miscellanies, Volume I - Thomas JEFFERSON
- Author: Thomas JEFFERSON
- Genre: Literary Collections / Memoirs
This is the first volume of Thomas Jefferson's public and private writings edited and compiled by his oldest grandson Thomas Jefferson Randolph and published three years after the president's death. There are a total of four volumes in Randolph's...
Summer on the Lakes, in 1843 - Margaret Fuller
Summer on the Lakes, in 1843 - Margaret Fuller
- Author: Margaret Fuller
- Genre: Memoirs
Margaret Fuller, the American early proponent for Women's rights, writes of her visits to the Great Lakes in the summer of 1843. - Summary by KevinS...
The Diary of Samuel Pepys 1665 - Samuel PEPYS
The Diary of Samuel Pepys 1665 - Samuel PEPYS
- Author: Samuel PEPYS
- Genre: Memoirs
Pepys' diary continues with his trademark engaging frankness, as he jockeys for favour, criticises his colleagues on the Navy Board for their incompetence, resists the temptation to see plays, fights with his wife, sleeps with any pretty woman who...
A Minor War History - Martin Alonzo Haynes
A Minor War History - Martin Alonzo Haynes
- Author: Martin Alonzo Haynes
- Genre: War & Military / Memoirs
A personal history of the American Civil War taken from the author's own letters to 'the girl he left behind', who later became his wife. This is not a complete history and does not deal with major events, but is a snapshot of life in the Second New...
The Life of a Fossil Hunter - Charles Sternberg
The Life of a Fossil Hunter - Charles Sternberg
- Author: Charles Sternberg
- Genre: Animals / Memoirs / Earth Sciences
Charles Sternberg was an American fossil collector and paleontologist. He was active in both fields from 1876 to 1928, and collected fossils for private collectors as well as for international museums. This book is part travelogue, part...