Memoirs
- Voices from the Battlefield
- Pioneering Journeys: Memoirs of Exploration
- Voices of War: Memoirs from the Battlefield
- Voices of Faithful Servants
- Faithful Journeys: Christian Memoirs
- Voices of Resilience
Mountaineering in the Sierra Nevada
"Mountaineering in the Sierra Nevada" is a memoir by Clarence King of his adventures and work with the California Geological Surve…
From North Carolina to Southern California Without a Ticket
"... I have decided to write an account of a few of the many adventures and dangers that befell me while making my way, practically wit…
Tales of a Traveller
Writing under the pseudonym, Geoffrey Crayon, Washington Irving chronicled his travels through Europe in the early 1820’s. He wrote of peopl…
Kindness
Father Frederick William Faber was a beloved spiritual writer, preacher, and superior of the Oratory of St. Philip Neri in London. An Oxford…
Selected Letters of Saint Jane Frances de Chantal
Saint Jane Frances de Chantal (1572 – 1641) is a Roman Catholic Saint, who founded The Congregation of the Visitation after the death of her…
The Life-Story of a Russian Exile
Hero or assassin? Victim or criminal? Marie Sukloff fits no easy category. A young peasant woman who became a political radical and activ…
Confessions
“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 White Heart of Mojave
"The White Heart of the Mojave" recounts a 1920's adventure "in the wind and sun and big spaces" of Death Valley by two …
South African Memories
Lady Sarah Isabella Augusta Wilson was the aunt of Winston Spencer Churchill. In 1899 she became the first woman war correspondent when she …
How I Filmed the War
How I Filmed the War offers a unique perspective on World War I through the eyes of Geoffrey H. Malins, an early cinematographer who documen…
Loafing Along Death Valley Trails
William Caruthers was a retired newspaperman who spent 25 years listening to stories told by the inhabitants of Death Valley. This 1951 book…
The Love Letters of Abelard and Heloise
Heloise was a strong-willed and gifted woman who was fluent in Latin, Greek and Hebrew, and came from a lower social standing than Abelard. …
Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson
This is the story of Mary Rowlandson’s capture by American Indians in 1675. It is a blunt, frightening, and detailed work with several momen…
The Cruise of the Snark
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…
The Shirley Letters from California Mines
Louise Amelia Knapp Smith Clappe moved to California from Massachusetts during the Gold Rush of the mid-1800’s. During her travels, Louise w…
Remarkable Incidents and Modern Miracles Through Prayer and Faith
G.C. Bevington was a holiness Methodist itinerant preacher who was based in Kentucky but traveled far and wide across America in the 1920s. …
A Year With the Saints
Go through the year in the footsteps of the saints. This book emphasizes one virtue for each month with quotes and stories from the lives of…
Thoughts on Art and Life
This is a compilation of the thoughts on art, science and life of Leonardo da Vinci, translated by Maurice Baring and edited by Lewis Einst…
De Profundis
This is a letter written from prison in 1897 by Oscar Wilde to Lord Alfred Douglas, in which he recounts how he came to be in prison and cha…
The Facts of Reconstruction
After the American Civil War, John R. Lynch, who had been a slave in Mississippi, began his political career in 1869 by first becoming Justi…