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
Eighteen Months in the War Zone
In "Eighteen Months in the War Zone," Kate John Finzi offers a poignant memoir of her experiences during a tumultuous period of co…
Youth
Youth is the third installment in Leo Tolstoy's autobiographical trilogy, following Childhood and Boyhood. In this reflective narrative, Tol…
The Journals of Robert Falcon Scott
Captain Scott’s ill-fated journey to the Antarctic Pole in 1911 is part triumph, part tragedy – but also a mythic adventure story which has …
Old Rail Fence Corners
Old Rail Fence Corners is an historical treasure trove containing the stories of the first significant waves of European-American settlers i…
Farthest North
Farthest North chronicles the remarkable journey of Fridtjof Nansen and his crew aboard the ship Fram, as they venture into the uncharted Ar…
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…
Recollections of Bush Life in Australia
This was written in the mid 1800’s at time when Australia saw an influx of immigration from Europe and when England was sending some prisone…
The Friendly Road
My grandmother Gertrude received a copy of The Friendly Road for Christmas in 1919. It must have been a special gift book--green leather bin…
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 Trail of the Tramp
This book, written by the famous hobo and author, Leon Ray Livingston aka A-No. 1, is built on his own experiences on the road. The first ch…
From Plotzk to Boston
An intensely personal account of the immigration experience as related by a young Jewish girl from Plotzk (a town in the government of Viteb…
Insurgent Mexico
In the autumn of 1913 John Reed was sent to Mexico by the Metropolitan Magazine to report the Mexican Revolution. He shared the perils of Pa…
Three Years In Europe
William Wells Brown was born a slave, near Lexington, Kentucky. His mother, Elizabeth, was a slave--his father a white man who never acknowl…
The Tomb of Tut-Ankh-Amen
On 26 November 1922, after eight years of work in the Valley of the Kings, archeologist Howard Carter discovered the tomb of Tut-Ankh-Amen, …
Letters to His Children
The strong, vigorous, exalted character of a doting father who loved playing with his children and their pets, even while serving as the Pre…
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…
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…
Mother
Mother by Kathleen Norris explores the profound relationship between a daughter and her mother through the lens of domestic life. As Margare…
The Story of My Misfortunes
Autobiographies from remote historical periods can be especially fascinating.Modes of self-presentation vary greatly across the centuries, a…
My Experiences as an Executioner
From 1884 until 1891, James Berry was an executioner. In this time he carried out 131 hangings. In this memoir he writes about the methods h…