Memoirs

Journal Of Small Things

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Helen Gansevoort Edwards Mackay



Brief journal sketches from France during WW1. The author was was American, but went on to spend much of her life in France. - Summary by ka…

Ricordi di Londra, seguiti da Un' escursione nei quartieri poveri di Londra

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Edmondo De Amicis



Questa del 1874 è la seconda edizione del volume XXII della Biblioteca di Viaggi pubblicata dai Fratelli Treves. Gli editori vi riuni…

The Gentle Persuasion

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Alan Gray



Twelve stories from the author's life in Scotland, by Robert Cuthbert Johnstone, writing as Alan Gray. For more information on the author se…

Memoirs of the Lady Hester Stanhope, Vol I

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Charles Lewis Meryon and Lady Hester Stanhope



Memoirs of the Lady Hester Stanhope, as related by herself in Conversations with her Physician, comprising her opinions and anecdotes of som…

Reminiscences and Table-Talk of Samuel Rogers - Banker, Poet and Patron of the …

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Samuel Rogers



Samuel Rogers was a renowned conversationalist who associated with the most distinguished persons of his time. This volume contains fascinat…

Seen and Unseen

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Emily Katharine Bates and E. Katharine Bates



Novelist. Psychic investigator. Globe trotter. The multi-plane traveler, E. Katharine Bates, shares her phenomenal adventures on the cusp of…

The Third Voyage of James Cook, Volume 1

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James Cook



Only months after his return from his mammoth Second Voyage, the Admiralty ordered Cook back to the Pacific, ostensibly to return Omai, a yo…

Man-of-War Life

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Charles Nordhoff



In 1844, Charles Nordhoff joined the U.S. Navy at the young age of 14. He describes his around-the-world adventure as a young sailor aboard …

Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte, Volume 05

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Louis Antoine Fauvelet De Bourrienne



Memoirs written by Napoleon's private secretary, "a work based on years of intimate friendship and professional association." - S…

What Led to the Discovery of the Source of the Nile

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John Hanning Speke



This volume by British explorer Captain John Hanning Speke contains accounts of his first two expeditions into East Africa in the 1850s. Vol…

Six Months at the White House with Abraham Lincoln: The Story of a Picture

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Francis Bicknell Carpenter



This memoir by painter Francis Bicknell Carpenter includes observations he made during his time at the White House from February-July 1864, …

From Baca to Beulah

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Jennie Smith



Sequel to The Valley of Baca. This continues the personal account of Jennie Smith, who spent more than 20 years in pain, unable to walk, and…

Under the Guns : A woman's reminiscences of the Civil War

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Annie Wittenmyer and Annie Wittenmyer



Preface:The stories and reminiscences in this book are true to life, every one of them. They are told just as they occurred, without any att…

Germany Before the War

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Napoleon-Eugène Beyens



Baron Beyens was a senior member of the Belgian diplomatic service who was posted to Berlin in 1912. His book, published in early 1916, is i…

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