Memoirs
- Voices from the Battlefield
- Pioneering Journeys: Memoirs of Exploration
- Voices of War: Memoirs from the Battlefield
- Voices of Faithful Servants
- Faithful Journeys: Christian Memoirs
- Voices of Resilience
Wilderness
The illustrator and author Rockwell Kent (1882-1971)wrote and illustrated this description of a trip to Alaska with his eldest son. Though a…
Pictures from Italy
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…
The Tosa Diary
Ki no Tsurayuki was a Japanese waka poet of the Heian period. In 905, he was one of the poets ordered to compile the "Kokinshu - Collec…
The Autobiography of a Super-Tramp
The Autobiography of a Super-Tramp is an autobiography published in 1908 by the Welsh poet and writer W. H. Davies (1871–1940). A large part…
The Red Reign
Kellogg Durland spent a year in Russia as a journalist in 1906, during a seminal period in Russian history. This is a highly interesting rea…
The Expedition of the Donner Party and its Tragic Fate
The Donner Party was a group of California-bound American settlers caught up in the "westering fever" of the 1840s. After becoming…
The Backwoods of Canada
The writer is as earnest in recommending ladies who belong to the higher class of settlers to cultivate all the mental resources of a superi…
Autobiography of Anthony Trollope
Anthony Trollope's autobiography will delight you whether or not you've read (or listened to) any of his many works. His honest if self-depr…
Around the World on a Bicycle
Thomas Stevens was the first person to circle the globe by bicycle, a large-wheeled Ordinary. His journey started in April 1884 in San Franc…
The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova
This is the first of five volumes. - Giacomo Casanova (1725 in Venice – 1798 in Dux, Bohemia, now Duchcov, Czech Republic) was a famous Vene…
A Visit to the Holy Land, Egypt, and Italy
Ida Pfeiffer travelled alone in an era when women didn't travel. She went first on a pilgrimage to the Holy Land, then went on to Egypt and …
A New England Girlhood
Lucy Larcom was an American poet, teacher, and mill-worker. According to Wikipedia: "Larcom served as a model for the change in women's…
The White Heart of Mojave
"The White Heart of the Mojave" recounts a 1920's adventure "in the wind and sun and big spaces" of Death Valley by two …
Steep Trails
A collection of Muir's previously unpublished essays, released shortly after his death. "This volume will meet, in every way, the high …
Childhood
Childhood, published in 1852, is the first novel in Leo Tolstoy’s autobiographical trilogy, which also includes Boyhood, and Youth. Publishe…
The Friendship of Christ
Robert Hugh Benson, who was educated at Eton College and Trinity College, Cambridge, was ordained an Anglican priest in 1895 by his father, …
How I Filmed the War
How I Filmed the War offers a unique perspective on World War I through the eyes of Geoffrey H. Malins, an early cinematographer who documen…
Grandpa's Darlings
Fiction, or fact? The narrator asserts it's fact. The narrator is an author, whom her little nieces call "Auntie Belle". There's a…
Letters of Mrs. Adams, the Wife of John Adams
Abigail Adams lived the American Revolution as the wife of one of its central figures--John Adams. Her family correspondence, published alon…
Dr. Montessori's Own Handbook
This is the authoritative book written by Montessori to describe her methods. It gives an overview of the Montessori Method as developed for…