Memoirs
Two Years Before the Mast
Read by LibriVox Volunteers
Richard Henry Dana, Jr.
While there are many books upon the subject of sea life, there are few that can compare with Two Years Before the Mast. It is the story of a…
Beasts, Men and Gods
Read by Mark F. Smith
Ferdinand Ossendowski
“Beasts, Men and Gods” is an account of an epic journey, filled with perils and narrow escapes, in the mold of “The Lord of the Rings.”The d…
Ten Days in a Madhouse
Read by Alys AtteWater
Nellie Bly
In 1887 Nellie Bly, one of the first female newspaper writers, and a young reporter who would soon go on to make a career for herself as an …
The Road
Read by Barry Eads
Jack London
Jack London credited his skill of story-telling to the days he spent as a hobo learning to fabricate tales to get meals from sympathetic str…
My Life on the Plains
Read by texttalker
George Armstrong Custer
George Armstrong Custer (December 5, 1839 – June 25, 1876), one of the most mythologized figures in American history, was an United States A…
The Narrative of Sojourner Truth
Read by LibriVox Volunteers
Olive Gilbert
The Narrative of Sojourner Truth is the gripping autobiographical account of Sojourner Truths life as a slave in pre-Civil War New York Stat…
The Underground Railroad, Part 1
Read by LibriVox Volunteers
William Still
”It was my good fortune to lend a helping hand to the weary travelers flying from the land of bondage.” William Still."Dear Sir:—For mo…
Chancellorsville and Gettysburg
Read by Mark F. Smith
Abner Doubleday
Abner Doubleday began the Civil War as a Union officer and aimed the first cannon shot in response to the bombardment opened on Ft. Sumter i…
Through the Brazilian Wilderness
Read by LibriVox Volunteers
Theodore Roosevelt
Roosevelt's popular book Through the Brazilian Wilderness describes his expedition into the Brazilian jungle in 1913 as a member of the Roos…
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography (version 2)
Read by Mark Nelson
Booker T. Washington
Up from Slavery is the 1901 autobiography of Booker T. Washington sharing his personal experience of having to work to rise up from the posi…
Sergeant York and His People
Read by Brett W. Downey
Sam K. Cowan
From a cabin back in the mountains of Tennessee, forty-eight miles from the railroad, a young man went to the World War. He was untutored in…
The Rough Riders
Read by William Peck
Theodore Roosevelt
Theodore Roosevelt's personal account of The Rough Riders, the name affectionately bestowed on the 1st United States Volunteer Cavalry, one …
John Barleycorn or Alcoholic Memoirs
Read by Peter Kelleher
Jack London
Jack London died at the age of forty. In this autobiographical work, London describes his life as seen through the eyes of John Barleycorn (…
The Memoirs of Colonel John S. Mosby
Read by Mark F. Smith
John S. Mosby
This is not a work of fiction! These are the actual memoirs of a legendary leader of partisans who bedeviled the Union army for years, almos…
Among the Tibetans
Read by Availle
Isabella L. Bird
Isabella L. Bird was an English traveller, writer and natural historian. She was travelling in the Far East alone at a time when such endeav…
The Maine Woods
Read by Expatriate
Henry David Thoreau
On August 31, 1846, twenty-nine-year-old Henry David Thoreau left his cabin on Walden Pond to undertake a railroad and steamboat journey to …
Bradford's History of the Plymouth Settlement, 1608-1650
Read by David Leeson
William Bradford
The journal of William Bradford, who served five terms as governor of the Plymouth colony, is an indispensable document of the events of ear…
Gallipoli Diary
Read by Sue Anderson
John Graham Gillam
Major John Graham Gillam, British Supply Officer, wrote in his World War I Gallipoli Diary that when he sailed from England for the Dardanel…
The Story of My Boyhood and Youth
Read by Sue Anderson
John Muir
"The only fire for the whole house was the kitchen stove, with a fire box about eighteen inches long and eight inches wide and deep,- s…
Some results not appropriate to all audiences were removed. Repeat this search, including explicit results.