Memoirs
The Innocents Abroad (version 2)
Read by bscottholmes
Mark Twain
Samuel L. Clemens' (Mark Twain) journey to Europe and the Holy Land in 1866. Reportedly his best selling book.
Our Journey to Sinai
Read by Sue Anderson
Agnes Von Blomberg Bensly
Fortress-walled Saint Catherine's monastery on the Sinai peninsula has been a pilgrimage site since its founding by the Byzantine Emperor Ju…
Hardtack and Coffee
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John Billings
Hard Tack and Coffee: The Unwritten Story of Army Life (1887) is a memoir by John D. Billings, a veteran of the 10th Massachusetts Volunteer…
Narrative of the operations and recent discoveries within the pyramids, temples…
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Giovanni Battista Belzoni
Giovanni Battista Belzoni (1778 – 1823) was an Italian explorer and pioneer archaeologist of Egyptian antiquities. He is known for his remo…
The Amateur Emigrant
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Robert Louis Stevenson
In July 1879, Robert Louis Stevenson left Scotland to meet his future wife in her native California. Leaving by ship from Glasgow, Scotland,…
From Plotzk to Boston
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Mary Antin
An intensely personal account of the immigration experience as related by a young Jewish girl from Plotzk (a town in the government of Viteb…
Among Typhoons And Pirate Craft
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Lindsay Anderson
Anderson served as third officer aboard the Eamont. Eamont was an opium clipper built in Cowes. Eamont was involved in the opening of Japan …
Eighty Years and More; Reminiscences 1815-1897
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Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Elizabeth Cady Stanton was one of the premier movers in the original women’s rights movement, along with Susan B. Anthony, her best friend f…
Meditations from the Pen of Mrs. Maria W. Stewart
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Maria W. Stewart
Maria W. Stewart was America's first black woman political writer. Between 1831 and 1833, she gave four speeches on the topics of slavery a…
The Night Club
Read by Lee Smalley
Herbert George Jenkins
This work of fiction by Herbert Jenkins (1876-1923) features one of his best-loved comic characters, the affable Cockney, Joseph Bindle. It …
A Negro Explorer at the North Pole
Read by Lee Smalley
Matthew A. Henson
In this fascinating memoir, Matthew Henson describes the incredibly dangerous, exhausting, and bone-chilling trip to what was until then the…
Notes of a Camp Follower on the Western Front
Read by Clive Catterall
E. W. Hornung
In 1915 Oscar Hornung, son of the famous author E W Hornung, was killed at Ypres after less than a year as a soldier in Flanders. He was onl…
Six Years in the Prisons of England
Read by Elaine Webb
Frank Henderson
A Merchant talks about daily life inside prisons of England, describes routines and how prisoners are treated. He notes stories of how fello…
Just Me
Read by Pamela Krantz
Pearl White
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…
First Successful Ascent of Mt. Rainier, 1870
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Hazard Stevens
Hazard Stevens and P.B. Van Trump, aided by the Indian guide Sluiskin, made the first documented successful ascent of Mt. Rainier on August …
A Woman's Experiences in the Great War
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Louise Mack
An eye-witness account of the fall of Antwerp to the Germans in the opening months of World War I, Mack’s story has passages of extraordinar…
Жизнь без границ
Read by Валерий Смекалов
Вуйчич Ник
Ник Вуйчич | Жизнь без границ
Ник Вуйчич родился без рук и ног, но он вполне независим и живет полноценной и насыщенной жизнью: получ…
A Lady's Captivity among Chinese Pirates in the Chinese Seas
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Fanny Loviot and Fanny Loviottranslated Byamelia Ann Blanford Edwards
This thrilling narrative recounts the true story of Fanny Loviot, a wealthy, young French girl who was kidnapped at sea. After setting sail …
On A Donkey's Hurricane Deck
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Robert Pitcher Woodward
" A Tempestous Voyage of Four Thousand and Ninety-Six Miles Across the American Continent on a Burro, in 340 Days and 2 Hours - startin…
The English Governess at the Siamese Court
Anna Harriette Leonowens
1862 Anna Leonowens accepted an offer made by the Siamese consul in Singapore, Tan Kim Ching, to teach the wives and children of Mongkut, k…