Memoirs
The Innocents Abroad
Read by John Greenman
Mark Twain
Writer/entertainer Garrison Keillor (A Prairie Home Companion) on “The Innocents Abroad”: “…one of the best selling travel books of all time…
Sailing Alone Around The World
Read by Alan Chant
Joshua Slocum
Joshua Slocum was the first man to sail around the world alone in a small boat. He personally rebuilt an 11.2 metre sloop-rigged fishing boa…
The Story of a Soul
Read by Ann Boulais
Saint Therese Of Lisieux
Marie Francoise Therese Martin, affectionately known as 'The Little Flower', was born on January 2, 1873, in Alencon, France to Louis Martin…
The Story of a Common Soldier of Army Life in the Civil War, 1861-1865
Read by Sue Anderson
Leander Stillwell
Leander Stillwell was an 18-year-old Illinois farm boy, living with his family in a log cabin, when the U.S. Civil War broke out. Stillwell …
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Written by Herself
Read by Elizabeth Klett
Harriet Jacobs
Harriet Jacobs' autobiography, written under the pseudonym Linda Brent, details her experiences as a slave in North Carolina, her escape to …
The People of the Abyss
Read by Peter Yearsley
Jack London
Jack London lived for a time within the grim and grimy world of the East End of London, where half a million people scraped together hardly …
My First Summer in the Sierra
Read by Adrian Praetzellis
John Muir
The journal of nature-lover John Muir who spent the summer of 1869 walking California’s Sierra Nevada range. From French Bar to Mono Lake an…
The Life and Amours of the Beautiful, Gay and Dashing Kate Percival (Dramatic R…
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Kate Percival
This surprisingly explicit sample of Victorian erotica follows the sexual awakening and subsequent adventures of its author, Kate Percival, …
Thoughts on Art and Life
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Leonardo Da Vinci
This is a compilation of the thoughts on art, science and life of Leonardo da Vinci, translated by Maurice Baring and edited by Lewis Einst…
A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains
Read by Laura Caldwell
Isabella L. Bird
Isabella Bird began travelling while in her early twenties to help alleviate illness that had plagued her since childhood. She was a single …
South! The Story of Shackleton's Last Expedition 1914-1917
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Ernest Shackleton
Shackleton's most famous expedition was planned to be an attempt to cross Antarctica from the Weddell Sea south of the Atlantic to the Ross …
The Strenuous Life: Essays and Addresses of Theodore Roosevelt
Read by Bob Neufeld
Theodore Roosevelt
This book is a collection of Theodore Roosevelt’s published commentaries and public addresses on the general theme of the requirements for i…
Travels in Alaska
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John Muir
In 1879 John Muir went to Alaska for the first time. Its stupendous living glaciers aroused his unbounded interest, for they enabled him to …
Over the Top
Read by Mark F. Smith
Arthur Guy Empey
Arthur Guy Empey was an American who responded to the sinking of the Lusitania by enlisting with the British Army to fight in France. His ex…
Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc, Volumes 1 & 2
Read by John Greenman
Mark Twain
Mark Twain's work on Joan of Arc is titled in full "Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc, by the Sieur Louis de Conte." De Conte …
The Letters of Jane Austen
Read by Elizabeth Klett
Jane Austen
This recording includes a selection of Jane Austen's letters, edited by Susan Coolidge and chosen from the collection of Austen's great-neph…
My Life and Work
Read by LivelyHive
Henry Ford
Henry Ford profiles the events that shaped his personal philosophy, and the challenges he overcame on the road to founding the Ford Motor Co…
Blackfeet Indian Stories
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George Bird Grinnell
The Blackfeet were hunters, travelling from place to place on foot. They used implements of stone, wood, or bone, wore clothing made of skin…
The Gods of Mars (version 2)
Read by Thomas A. Copeland
Edgar Rice Burroughs
In this second volume of the Barsoom series, John Carter returns to Mars to learn that his heroic effort to salvage the atmosphere plant sav…
Autobiography of a Seaman, Vol. 1
Read by Timothy Ferguson
Lord Thomas Cochrane
This two volume work is the autobiography of Lord Cochrane, a naval captain of the Napoleonic period. His adventures are seminal to the deve…