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
Two Years in the Forbidden City
THE author of the following narrative has peculiar qualifications for her task. She is a daughter of Lord Yu Keng, a member of the Manchu Wh…
Roughing It in the Bush
'Roughing It In the Bush' is Susanna Moodie's account of how she coped with the harshness of life in the woods of Upper Canada, as an Englis…
Elizabeth and her German Garden
Elizabeth and Her German Garden is a novel by Elizabeth von Arnim, first published in 1898; it was very popular and frequently reprinted dur…
The Loss of the S. S. Titanic
This is a 1st hand account written by a survivor of the Titanic about that fateful night and the events leading up to it as well as the even…
East by West
East by West: a Journey in the Recess is an account of British journalist Henry Lucy's travels across America and on to the Far East during …
Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole
I should have thought that no preface would have been required to introduce Mrs. Seacole to the British public, or to recommend a book which…
The Gold Hunters
This is a robust, rough and tumble, first-hand account of the early California gold rush years 1851-1854 by a Scottish adventurer and artist…
My Southern Home
William Wells Brown was born a slave, near Lexington, Kentucky. His mother, Elizabeth, was a slave; his father was a white man who never ack…
Boots and Saddles
Elizabeth Custer has penned an engaging portrait of 1870’s life on a U.S. cavalry post in the Dakotas, just before her husband and his troop…
Four Weeks in the Trenches
Four Weeks in the Trenches offers a firsthand account of the harrowing experiences faced by soldiers on the Eastern Front during World War I…
Bullets & Billets
A front-line view of life in the trenches of the Western Front in the early part of 1914-1915. Told by Lieutenant (later Captain) Bruce Bair…
A Gold Hunter's Experience
"Early in the summer of 1860, I had an attack of gold fever. In Chicago, the conditions for such a malady were all favorable. Since t…
Ox-Team Days on the Oregon Trail
Ox-Team Days on the Oregon Trail is a vivid memoir that transports listeners to the early 19th century, chronicling the experiences of Ezra …
The Englishwoman in America
Isabella Bird travels abroad in Canada and the United States in the 1850s. As an Englishwoman and a lone female, she travels as far as Chica…
Unbeaten Tracks in Japan
Isabella Lucy Bird was a 19th century English traveller, writer, and natural historian. She was a sickly child, however, while she was trave…
Recollections of Life in Ohio
Recollections of Life in Ohio is the autobiography of William Cooper Howells (1807-1894), father of the American novelist William Dean Howel…
The Practice of the Presence of God
Brother Lawrence was born Nicholas Herman around 1610 in Herimenil, Lorraine, a Duchy of France. His birth records were destroyed in a fire …
Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Henry Bibb
Henry Walton Bibb was born a slave. His father was white although his identity was not positively known. Bibb was separated from his mother …
Glengarry School Days
With international book sales in the millions, Ralph Connor was the best-known Canadian novelist of the first two decades of the Twentieth C…
The History of Mary Prince
Mary Prince was born into slavery in the West Indies. As a free woman in England she wrote her memoirs, which sold well and supported and pu…