Memoirs
196 Tage auf treibender Eisscholle
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Emil Bessels
Am 29. Juni 1871 stach das Schiff » Polaris« von New York unter Kapitän Franz C. Hall in See zur Erforschung des Hochnorden…
Das Waldbauernbübel
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Peter Rosegger
"Das Waldbauernbübel" ist nichts anderes, als eine Sammlung von Erlebnissen und Erfahrungen aus dem Jugendleben in der Waldhe…
Pictures from Italy
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Charles Dickens
Dickens takes time off his novels to give an account of travels which he and his family undertook in France and Italy. There are vivid descr…
A Captivity of Nearly Three Years Among the Savages of Nootka Sound
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John R. Jewitt
John Jewitt (1783-1821), a blacksmith by trade, spent the years 1803-1806 as a slave among the Nuu-chah-nulth people of Nootka Sound, off t…
Nurse and Spy in the Union Army
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Sarah Emma Edmonds
The “Nurse and Spy” is simply a record of events which have transpired in the experience and under the observation of one who has been on th…
Woman in the Nineteenth Century
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Margaret Fuller
Margaret Fuller was an American feminist, writer, and intellectual associated with the Transcendentalist movement. Her book Woman in the Nin…
Creative Unity
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Rabindranath Tagore
Gurudev Rabindranath Tagore talks of the many things he feels is necessary for creativity through joy of unity, he covers many topics like t…
The Colored Cadet at West Point
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Henry Ossian Flipper
Henry Ossian Flipper--born into slavery in Thomasville, Georgia on March 21, 1856--did not learn to read and write until just before the end…
Reminiscences of Forts Sumter and Moultrie in 1860-'61 (version 2)
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Abner Doubleday
Abner Doubleday was a busy man. He rose to be a major general during the American Civil War, started the first cable car company in San Fran…
Boyhood
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Leo Tolstoy
Boyhood is the second in Tolstoy's trilogy of three autobiographical novels, including Childhood and Youth, published in a literary journal …
War
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Pierre Loti
Pierre Loti [Julien Viaud] (1850-1923) was a French naval officer and novelist. The present book is one of his few works of non-fiction, a s…
South African Memories
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Lady Sarah Wilson
Lady Sarah Isabella Augusta Wilson was the aunt of Winston Spencer Churchill. In 1899 she became the first woman war correspondent when she …
Recollections of Bush Life in Australia
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Henry William Haygarth
This was written in the mid 1800’s at time when Australia saw an influx of immigration from Europe and when England was sending some prisone…
How I Filmed the War
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Geoffrey H. Malins
An account of World War I and the experience of filming it by an early cinematographer (and, after the war, successful director) who was the…
California Coast Trails
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Joseph Smeaton Chase
In 1911, decades before California's coast Highway 1 was built, an Englishman rode 2000 miles on horseback the length of California, from Me…
In the Field (1914-1915)
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Marcel Dupont
I have merely tried to make a written record of some of the hours I have lived through during the course of this war. A modest Lieutenant of…
The Expedition of the Donner Party and its Tragic Fate
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Eliza P. Donner Houghton
The Donner Party was a group of California-bound American settlers caught up in the "westering fever" of the 1840s. After becoming…
Our Nig, or, Sketches from the Life of a Free Black, In A Two-Story White House
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Harriet E. Wilson
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…
The Early History of the Airplane
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Orville Wright
The Brothers Orville and Wilbur Wright made the first controlled, powered and sustained heavier-than-air flight, on 17th December 1903. They…
Ox-Team Days on the Oregon Trail
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Ezra Meeker
This is a memoir by an early 19th Century American settler in the Pacific Northwest. (Description by BellonaTimes)