Memoirs

A Woman Who Went to Alaska

by May Kellogg Sullivan Read by Karen Commins 4.5
Alaska has only been a state since 1959, and the breathtaking terrain remains mostly unspoiled and natural. In modern times, many of us have…

Eben Holden

by Irving Bacheller Read by Roger Melin 4.7
Eben Holden - A Tale of the North Country. Having lost both parents and his home in northern Vermont, orphan Willie Brower is taken in by Eb…

Recollections of the Civil War

by Charles Anderson Dana Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.6
Recollections of the Civil War records the events that took place during the American Civil war. It forms one of the most remarkable volumes…

High Adventure

by James Norman Hall Read by John W. Michaels 4.6
High Adventure A Narrative of Air Fighting in France by James Norman Hall; you will find this book although an exciting narrative has an unp…

John Barleycorn

by Jack London Read by Peter Kelleher 4.5
Jack London died at the age of forty. In this autobiographical work, London describes his life as seen through the eyes of John Barleycorn (…

A Captivity of Nearly Three Years Among the Savages of Nootka Sound

by John R. Jewitt Read by Sue Anderson 4.6
John Jewitt (1783-1821), a blacksmith by trade, spent the years 1803-1806 as a slave among the Nuu-chah-nulth people of Nootka Sound, off t…

Daddy-Long-Legs

by Jean Webster Read by Jo Karabasz 4.6
Jerusha Abbott was brought up at the John Grier Home, an old-fashioned orphanage. The children were wholly dependent on charity and had to w…

Sergeant York and His People

by Sam K. Cowan Read by Brett W. Downey 4.7
From a cabin back in the mountains of Tennessee, forty-eight miles from the railroad, a young man went to the World War. He was untutored in…

Travels in Alaska

by John Muir Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.7
In 1879 John Muir went to Alaska for the first time. Its stupendous living glaciers aroused his unbounded interest, for they enabled him to …

California Coast Trails

by Joseph Smeaton Chase Read by Adrian Praetzellis 4.8
In 1911, decades before California's coast Highway 1 was built, an Englishman rode 2000 miles on horseback the length of California, from Me…

The Underground Railroad

by William Still Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.4
”It was my good fortune to lend a helping hand to the weary travelers flying from the land of bondage.” William Still."Dear Sir:—For mo…

Gallipoli Diary

by John Graham Gillam Read by Sue Anderson 4.6
Major John Graham Gillam, British Supply Officer, wrote in his World War I Gallipoli Diary that when he sailed from England for the Dardanel…

Miss Priscilla Hunter, and My Daughter Susan

by Pansy Read by TriciaG 4.8
Two shorter stories in one book. In "Miss Priscilla Hunter," the church has been carrying debt for years. It's an embarrassment, a…

Siddhartha

by Hermann Hesse Read by Adrian Praetzellis 4.7
Siddhartha is one of the great philosophical novels. Profoundly insightful, it is also a beautifully written story that begins as Siddhartha…

C. H. Spurgeon's Prayers

by Charles H. Spurgeon Read by MaryAnn 5
The day on which a volume of C. H. Spurgeon's Pulpit Prayers appears is a day to be desired. Decidedly this selection of the great preacher'…

Shipwreck of the Whale-ship Essex

by Owen Chase Read by Phil Schempf 4.6
Owen Chase (October 7, 1797 – March 7, 1869) was First Mate of the whale ship Essex, that was struck and sunk by a sperm whale on October 28…

Of the Love of God

by Saint Francis de Sales Read by dave7 4.9
Francis de Sales (1567-1622), Bishop of Geneva from 1602, was a renowned spiritual director who produced two classic guidebooks for earthly …

The Rough Riders

by Theodore Roosevelt Read by William Peck 4.6
Theodore Roosevelt's personal account of The Rough Riders, the name affectionately bestowed on the 1st United States Volunteer Cavalry, one …

Reminiscences of Captain Gronow

by Rees Howell Gronow Read by Ruth Golding 4.7
A collection of memoirs about the Peninsular War, the Battle of Waterloo, and society and personalities of Regency London and 19th century P…

Campaigning With Grant

by Horace Porter Read by David Wales 4.8
In the last year of the American Civil War, Horace Porter served as aide-de-camp to General Ulysses S. Grant, then commander of all the armi…

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