Memoirs

My Trip Abroad

by Charlie Chaplin Read by Chuck Williamson 4.6
"A steak and kidney pie, influenza and a cablegram. There is the triple alliance that is responsible for the whole thing."So begin…

Mountaineering in the Sierra Nevada

by Clarence King Read by Melanie Schleeter McCalmont 4.8
"Mountaineering in the Sierra Nevada" is a memoir by Clarence King of his adventures and work with the California Geological Surve…

An English Woman-Sergeant in the Serbian Army

by Flora Sandes Read by MaryAnn 4.6
Flora Sandes was the only British woman officially to serve as a soldier in World War I. Initially a St. John Ambulance volunteer, she trave…

A Minor War History

by Martin Alonzo Haynes Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.7
A personal history of the American Civil War taken from the author's own letters to 'the girl he left behind', who later became his wife. Th…

Voyage Round the World

by George Hamilton Read by Roy Schreiber 4.1
George Hamilton was the surgeon assigned to the frigate Pandora. The British Admiralty ordered the ship to the Pacific to arrest the Bounty …

The Heir of Slaves

by William Pickens Read by James K. White 4.7
In the first of two autobiographies, Pickens describes his early life struggling to help his family free themselves from a system of tenant …

Memoirs of the Court of Marie Antoinette

by Henriette Campan Read by Celine Major 5
Introduced into the royal household as court reader at the age of 15 and later rising to the office of first lady-in-waiting to Marie Antoin…

Adrift on an Ice-Pan

by Sir Wilfred Grenfell Read by Sean Michael Hogan 4.8
This autobiographical work describes the author's harrowing experience caught on a small drifting piece of ice, while crossing a frozen bay …

Diary of an S and M Romance

by Dollie Llama Read by Dollie Llama 4
The first-ever adult title on Podiobooks.com. "Diary of an S and M Romance" is the true story of a young widow reclaiming her lif…

Travels to Oaxaca

by Nicolas-Joseph Thiéry De Menonville and Nicolas-Joseph Thiéry de Menonville Read by Sue Anderson 4.4
Botanical Piracy! A French botanist plots to steal red dye cochineal insects from Spanish Mexico and transplant them and their cacti hosts …

Ten Thousand Miles with a Dog Sled

by Hudson Stuck Read by Barry Eads 4.9
This volume deals with a series of journeys taken with a dog team over the winter trails in the interior of Alaska. The title might have cla…

Vanished Arizona

by Martha Summerhayes Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.8
"This is the lively autobiography of Martha Summerhayes, the wife of an officer in the American Army. Here, she tells many stories abou…

A Narrative of the Expedition to Botany-Bay

by Watkin Tench Read by tabithat 4.6
A Narrative of the Expedition to Botany-Bay offers a firsthand account of the early days of European settlement in Australia, as seen throug…

A Voice From Harper's Ferry

by Osborne Perry Anderson Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.6
A Voice from Harper's Ferry is the abolitionist testament of Osborne Perry Anderson, the only surviving black participant in the 1859 raid o…

The Life and Adventures of James P. Beckwourth

by T. D. Bonner Read by Gary Olman 4.3
Buried amid the sublime passes of the Sierra Nevada are old men, who, when children, strayed away from our crowded settlements, and, gradual…

Eighteen Months' Imprisonment

by Donald Shaw Read by Lee Smalley 3.9
This is an absorbing memoir of an inmate's experiences and impressions while in a London prison. He describes himself as "a man of educ…

Station Amusements in New Zealand

by Mary Anne Barker Read by Gail Timmerman Vaughan 5
Station Amusements in New Zealand is a collection of vignettes about life on a sheep station (high country farm) in colonial New Zealand dur…

Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini

by Benvenuto Cellini Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.5
Cellini's autobiographical memoirs, which he began writing in Florence in 1558, give a detailed account of his singular career, as well as h…

War Prison Diary

by Michael Dougherty Read by Barry Eads 4.7
The diary kept by Michael Dougherty, a Union private in the American Civil War, while imprisoned in various Confederate prison camps. Doughe…

First Successful Ascent of Mt. Rainier

by Hazard Stevens Read by Sue Anderson 4.4
Hazard Stevens and P.B. Van Trump, aided by the Indian guide Sluiskin, made the first documented successful ascent of Mt. Rainier on August …

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