Memoirs
The Roosevelt-Rondon Scientific-Expedition
Read by LibriVox Volunteers
Candido Mariano da Silva Rondon and Candido Mariano Da Silva Rondon
The Roosevelt–Rondon Scientific Expedition was the famous survey that took place in 1913-14 to follow the path of the Rio da Dúvida (…
Over Prairie Trails
Read by Bruce Pirie
Frederick Philip Grove
When Frederick Philip Grove settled in a remote area of Manitoba in the early years of the 20th century, he found work teaching in a school …
Home Sweet Home
Read by LibriVox Volunteers
John Howard Payne
Originally from the Opera 'Clari, Maid of Milan,' 'Home! Sweet Home!' is John Howard Payne's most famous work. Written in 1823 it has been w…
Journal of Francis Asbury
Read by LibriVox Volunteers
Francis Asbury
As one of the first two bishops of the Methodist church in America and one of the most well-known circuit riders during the spread of Method…
Summer on the Lakes
Read by LibriVox Volunteers
Margaret Fuller
Margaret Fuller, the American early proponent for Women's rights, writes of her visits to the Great Lakes in the summer of 1843. - Summary b…
Zorra Boys at Home and Abroad
Read by LibriVox Volunteers
William Alexander MacKay
By Zorra, in the following sketches, is meant a little district in Oxford county, Ontario, some ten miles square, composed of part of East a…
Our New Zealand Cousins
Read by Beeswaxcandle
James Inglis
A travelogue of a trip through New Zealand in 1885 with panegyric descriptions of the scenery, elucidations of the progress the country had …
The Hill
Read by LibriVox Volunteers
Rupert Brooke
LibriVox volunteers bring you 15 recordings of The Hill by Rupert Brooke. This was the Weekly Poetry project for May 15, 2011.Rupert Chawner…
Three Years' Wanderings in the Northern Provinces of China
Read by Steve Cullen
Robert Fortune
An account by Scottish botanist of his journey to China to discover the secret of producing tea and securing plants for propagation outside…
Campaigns of Curiosity
Read by TriciaG
Elizabeth L. Banks
Elizabeth Banks was an American journalist who, at about age 23, moved to London. While trying to break into English journalism and to keep …
Travels in Brazil
Read by KevinS
Henry Koster
A well-written and informative first-hand account of a young man's travels within Brazil during the period shortly before Brazil's independe…
Memoirs of the Court of Marie Antoinette
Read by Celine Major
Henriette Campan
Introduced into the royal household as court reader at the age of 15 and later rising to the office of first lady-in-waiting to Marie Antoin…
A Life Unveiled
Read by PhyllisV
William James McGlothlin
A memoir of a young woman, who lived in the late 19th century in the United States. Starting with her pastoral youth and progressing through…
Kidnapped in London
Read by Matthew McNaughton
Sun Yat-sen and Sun Yat-Sen
Sun Yat-Sen was the first president of the Republic of China after the brutal Qing government collapsed in 1911. Over a decade earlier, he h…
Letters from a Prairie Garden
Read by LibriVox Volunteers
Edna W. Underwood
The "Letters from a Prairie Garden," are genuine letters and not fiction. They went through the mail. An explanatory word about th…
The Red Flower
Read by LibriVox Volunteers
Henry van Dyke
LibriVox volunteers bring you 27 recordings of The Red Flower by Henry van Dyke. This was the Weekly Poetry project for March 11, 2012.Dr. H…
There Was a Cherry-Tree
Read by LibriVox Volunteers
James Whitcomb Riley
LibriVox volunteers bring you 18 recordings of There Was a Cherry-Tree by James Whitcomb Riley. This was the Weekly Poetry project for May 1…
The Memoirs of Chateaubriand
Read by Nicole Lee
François-René de Chateaubriand
Volume II of Chateaubriand's Memoirs from Beyond the Tomb, translated by Teixeira de Mattos. This volume covers the period from his return t…
Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte
Read by Gillian Hendrie
Louis Antoine Fauvelet De Bourrienne
Memoirs written by Napoleon's private secretary, "a work based on years of intimate friendship and professional association." - S…
Far Away and Long Ago
Read by John Greenman
William Henry Hudson
A boy (between the ages of 4 and 12) discovers the natural world around him in his home in the Argentine Pampas and in Buenos Aires. Author …