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
Our New Zealand Cousins
A travelogue of a trip through New Zealand in 1885 with panegyric descriptions of the scenery, elucidations of the progress the country had …
Pitching in a Pinch
In this book Mathewson is telling the reader of the game as it is played in the Big Leagues.... It’s as good as his pitching and some exciti…
Under the Guns
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…
Village Life in America
A diary of a young school girl in Canandaigua, New York during the Civil War. (Summary by MaryElizabeth)
A Journal from Japan
Marie Stopes was a highly controversial scientist and activist in her era, campaigning for radical new views of love-based marriage, birth c…
The Autobiography of Calvin Coolidge
A relatively short, autobiographical account of the life of Calvin Coolidge, 30th president of the United States of America. The contents sp…
The Soul of a People
In The Soul of a People, Englishman H. Fielding explores the beliefs of the Burmese people. He offers an understandable, and yet thorough, e…
A Voice From Harper's Ferry
A Voice from Harper's Ferry is the abolitionist testament of Osborne Perry Anderson, the only surviving black participant in the 1859 raid o…
Washington Irving's Visit to England
Famed American humorist Washington Irving published a series of short stories telling of his adventures traveling from America to England. T…
Le Petit Nord
A collection of letters from Anne (MacLanahan) Grenfell, future wife of Sir Wilfred Grenfell, regarding her year of missionary service at th…
Just Me
Perhaps the first memoir written by a film celebrity, Pearl White's Just Me gives a first-person account of the actress' rise to stardom. Wh…
The Iron Hunter
This is an autobiography by Michigan Governor Chase Osborn. Osborn was born in 1860 in a log house in Huntington County, Indiana and later a…
Travels and adventures of an orchid hunter
This is quite the adventure tale and travelog. We see cities, peoples, plants and wildlife of Columbia and the ports our intrepid 'hunter' v…
Raising Children Who Hope in the Triumph of God
"The most important school a child should ever attend is the home. The most influential theological teachers he should ever have are Mo…
Reminiscences Of A Workhouse Medical Officer
Joseph Rogers (1821-1889) was an English physician, medical officer, and health care reformer in London. The system of poor-law dispensarie…
In Italy with the 332nd Infantry
A brief, personal recounting of the 332nd Infantry in World War I, including training in America, a brief billet in France, activities in It…
From Slave Cabin To Pulpit
Peter Randolph was born a slave in 1825 (?), was freed before the American Civil War, and became a clergyman in the Baptist tradition, dying…
Far Away and Long Ago
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 …
What Led to the Discovery of the Source of the Nile
This volume by British explorer Captain John Hanning Speke contains accounts of his first two expeditions into East Africa in the 1850s. Vol…
Travels to Oaxaca
Botanical Piracy! A French botanist plots to steal red dye cochineal insects from Spanish Mexico and transplant them and their cacti hosts …