Modern (19th C)
Lives of the Presidents Told in Words of One Syllable
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Jean S. Remy
Lives of the Presidents Told in Words of One Syllable is a halting account in presidential history - quite literally! From Washington to Jac…
A Glimpse of India
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Clara Swain
A Glimpse of India: being a collection of extracts from the letters Dr. Clara A. Swain, first medical missionary to India of the Woman's For…
''Tell It All'': The Story of a Life's Experience in Mormonism
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Fanny Stenhouse
Fanny relates the experiences of a 19th century missionary as she and her young husband proselytize throughout Europe in search of converts …
The History of the Suez Canal
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Ferdinand de Lesseps
A lively picture of the origin and completion of the Suez Canal (built between 1859 and 1869) and his architect, Vicomte de Lesseps. This is…
Famous Adventures And Prison Escapes Of The Civil War
Read by David Wales
Various
Seven narratives published in the late nineteenth century and assembled in this 1913 collection. - Summary by david wales
Personal Recollections of Early Melbourne and Victoria
Read by Lucy Burgoyne (1950-2014)
William Westgarth
Son of John Westgarth, surveyor-general of customs for Scotland, was born at Edinburgh, in June 1815. He was educated at the high schools at…
London Labour and the London Poor Volume I
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Henry Mayhew
Subtitled, "A Cyclopaedia of the condition and earnings of those that will work, those that cannot work, and those that will not work.&…
Gossip In The First Decade Of Victoria's Reign
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John Ashton
"I have written this Gossip not only for the edification of those to whom a portion, more or less, may be news, but for those who, like…
London Labour and the London Poor Volume II
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Henry Mayhew
Subtitled, "A Cyclopaedia of the condition and earnings of those that will work, those that cannot work, and those that will not work.&…
The Elements of Geology
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William Ruschenberger
Elements of Geology is one in a Series of First Books of Natural History Prepared for the Use of Schools and Colleges. This succinct little …
Rough Notes Taken During Some Rapid Journeys Across the Pampas and Among the An…
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Francis Bond Head
“Galloped on with no stopping, but merely to change horses until five o’clock in the evening—very tired indeed, but . . . saw fresh horses i…
The Secret of Charlotte Brontë
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Frederika Richardson Macdonald
Twenty years ago, now, I attempted (but was not especially successful in the task) to establish upon the personal knowledge that my own resi…
The Illustrated Key to the Tarot
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L. W. De Laurence
L.W. de Laurence, an occult and spiritual author and publisher, not only provides a history of the Tarot for fortune-telling purposes, but w…
Korea and Her Neighbors
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Isabella L. Bird
In this book, Isabella L. Bird, who had been elected a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society only 2 years prior, describes her travels th…
Lord Clive
Read by Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019)
Thomas Babington Macaulay
Robert Clive was, in Macaulay’s view, the real founder of British power in India. Macaulay himself served on the Governor’s Council in India…
Chronicles of Canada Volume 23 - The Cariboo Trail: A Chronicle of the Gold-fie…
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Agnes C. Laut
Between the California and Yukon/Klondike gold rushes was the Cariboo Gold Rush in what would become northern British Columbia. The first di…
The Cruise of the Alerte - In Search of Treasure
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Edward Frederick Knight
The book describes a voyage undertaken in 1889 by an English barrister Edward Frederick Knight to the South Seas. This delightful story take…
England Since Waterloo
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John Arthur Ransome Marriott
"England Since Waterloo" by Sir John Arthur Ransome Marriott (1859-1945) was first published in 1913 and went through many edition…
Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom
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Ellen Craft
Ellen and William Craft were a married couple who escaped from slavery in 1848 when Ellen disguised herself as a white, literate man and Wil…
Fourteen Months in American Bastiles
Read by Katie Riley
Francis Key Howard
Francis Key Howard recounts in this book his life as a political prisoner of the United States. He points out that he was held captive at th…