Memoirs
Arthur Conan Doyle’s Memories and Adventures
Read by Adrian Wilson
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Arthur Conan Doyle first published his memories of his many various adventures around the world and his relationships with such famous figur…
I, Mary MacLane
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Mary Maclane
Described as "the first blogger", Mary MacLane lived a tortured life, ahead of her time. Her beloved father died when she was a yo…
From Slave Cabin To Pulpit; and Sketches Of Slave Life
Read by David Wales
Peter Randolph
Peter Randolph was born a slave in 1825 (?), was freed before the American Civil War, and became a clergyman in the Baptist tradition, dying…
My Reminiscences
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Rabindranath Tagore
These Reminiscences were written and published by the Author in his fiftieth year, shortly before he started on a trip to Europe and America…
Plunkitt of Tammany Hall
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George Washington Plunkitt
"I seen my opportunities and I took 'em.", George Washington Plunkitt of Tamminy Hall. There's good graft and bad graft according …
Prisoner for Blasphemy
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George William Foote
George William Foote, a British secularist, was convicted and imprisoned on the charge of blasphemy after founding "The Freethinker&quo…
On an Irish Jaunting-Car through Donegal and Connemara
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Samuel Gamble Bayne
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 n…
Memoir and Correspondence of Caroline Herschel
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Margaret Herschel
For many people, the name Caroline Herschel will be unfamiliar, but she was one of the most significant women on the English scientific scen…
The Military Journals of Two Private Soldiers, 1758-1775
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Abraham Tomlinson
"Perceiving that much of the intrinsic value of these Journals would consist in a proper understanding of the historical facts to which…
The History of the Suez Canal
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Ferdinand de Lesseps
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…
Memoirs of Madame Vigée Lebrun
Read by James K. White
Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun
This memoirs chronicles Madame Vigée Lebrun's childhood and the early discovery of her talent, the fortuitous break that introduced h…
Screen Acting
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Mae Marsh
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…
Struggles and Triumphs, or Forty Years' of Recollections of P.T. Barnum, writte…
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P. T. Barnum
The 1873 edition of the autobiography of the founding genius of the "Greatest Show on Earth," P.T. (Phineas Taylor) Barnum. It d…
Personal Recollections of Early Melbourne and Victoria
Read by Lucy Burgoyne (1950-2014)
William Westgarth
Son of John Westgarth, surveyor-general of customs for Scotland, was born at Edinburgh, in June 1815. He was educated at the high schools at…
The Letters of Lord Nelson to Lady Hamilton, Volume II
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Horatio Nelson
Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson, 1st Duke of Bronté, KB (29 September 1758 – 21 October 1805) was an English flag officer famous …
Dallam's Travels with an Organ to the Grand Signieur, 1599-1600
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Thomas Dallam
Queen Elizabeth the First of England, the Grand Turk at Constantinople, and an organ builder named Thomas Dallam—quite a trio. In 1599, E…
Mountaineering in the Sierra Nevada
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Clarence King
"Mountaineering in the Sierra Nevada" is a memoir by Clarence King of his adventures and work with the California Geological Surve…
Discoveries Among the Ruins of Nineveh and Babylon
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Austen Layard
Austen Henry Layard is best known as the excavator of Nimrud and of Nineveh, where he uncovered a large proportion of the Assyrian palace re…
Rough Notes Taken During Some Rapid Journeys Across the Pampas and Among the An…
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Francis Bond Head
“Galloped on with no stopping, but merely to change horses until five o’clock in the evening—very tired indeed, but . . . saw fresh horses i…
The Truth about the Titanic
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Archibald Gracie
Colonel Archibald Gracie was the first survivor of the sinking of the Titanic to die, and this first-hand account was published posthumously…