Memoirs

A Gold Hunter's Experience

by Chalkley J. Hambleton Read by Sue Anderson 4.2
"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…

The Tomb of Tut-Ankh-Amen

by Howard Carter and Arthur C. Mace Read by Availle 4.8
On 26 November 1922, after eight years of work in the Valley of the Kings, archeologist Howard Carter discovered the tomb of Tut-Ankh-Amen, …

Mark Twain's Journal Writings

by Mark Twain Read by John Greenman 4.7
This second collection of essays by Mark Twain is a good example of the diversity of subject matter about which he wrote. As with the essays…

Twenty Years' Experience as a Ghost Hunter

by Elliott O'Donnell Read by Mark F. Smith 4.5
After having a difficult time establishing a career as a novelist, O’Donnell discovered to his happy surprise that the reading public was ve…

The Jack-Knife Man

by Ellis Parker Butler Read by Roger Melin 4.8
A lighthearted tale which revolves around old Peter Lane, who lives in a houseboat on the Mississippi River and mostly whiles away his time …

Bullets & Billets

by Bruce Bairnsfather Read by DrPGould 4.7
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…

The Bent Twig

by Dorothy Canfield Fisher Read by Bellona Times 4.5
Semi-autobiographical series of incidents in the life of an intellectual American family in the late 19th - early 20th Century as seen by fa…

Among Typhoons And Pirate Craft

by Lindsay Anderson Read by David Wales 4.5
Anderson served as third officer aboard the Eamont. Eamont was an opium clipper built in Cowes. Eamont was involved in the opening of Japan …

Confessions

by Jean-Jacques Rousseau Read by Martin Geeson 4.5
“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 Spell of the Hawaiian Islands and the Philippines

by Isabel Anderson Read by William Tomcho 4.6
In The Spell of the Hawaiian Islands and the Philippines, Isabel Anderson invites listeners on a captivating journey through the enchanting …

Remarkable Incidents and Modern Miracles Through Prayer and Faith

by G. C. Bevington Read by G. C. Bevington 4.7
G.C. Bevington was a holiness Methodist itinerant preacher who was based in Kentucky but traveled far and wide across America in the 1920s. …

The Gold Hunters

by John David Borthwick Read by Sue Anderson 4.3
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…

Our Nig, or, Sketches from the Life of a Free Black

by Harriet E. Wilson Read by Bridget Gaige 4.5
Frado is a colored girl, living in the USA a few years before the Civil War. She is abandoned by her own white mother in the house of the Be…

South African Memories

by Lady Sarah Wilson Read by SallyMc 4.6
Lady Sarah Isabella Augusta Wilson was the aunt of Winston Spencer Churchill. In 1899 she became the first woman war correspondent when she …

The Petticoat Commando

by Johanna Brandt Read by Richard Kilmer (1942-2022) 4.6
In introducing the English version of this book I venture to bespeak a welcome for it, not only for the light which it throws on some little…

Roughing It in the Bush

by Susanna Moodie Read by Moira Fogarty 4.4
'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…

Recollections of Imperial Russia

by Meriel Buchanan Read by Jan Moorehouse 4.8
In this memoir, Meriel Buchanan (9-5-1886 to 2-6-1959) links the history of Russia to powerful, lingering memories of her years living there…

The Prophet

by Kahlil Gibran Read by Mark F. Smith 4.7
The prophet Al Mustafa, before leaving the city where he has been living twelve years, stops to address the people. They call out for his wo…

Narrative of My Captivity Among the Sioux Indians

by Fanny Kelly Read by TriciaG 3.8
"Narrative of my captivity among the Sioux Indians: with a brief account of General Sully's Indian expedition in 1864, bearing upon eve…

The Story of Cole Younger

by Cole Younger Read by William A Crenshaw 4.5
The Story of Cole Younger offers a firsthand account of the life of one of America's most notorious outlaws. Cole Younger, a veteran of the …

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