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
Confessions
"She was more to me than a sister, a mother, a friend, or even than a mistress, and for this very reason she was not a mistress; in a w…
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…
A Negro Explorer at the North Pole
In this fascinating memoir, Matthew Henson describes the incredibly dangerous, exhausting, and bone-chilling trip to what was until then the…
Scott's Last Expedition
Capt. Robert F. Scott's bid to be the leader of the first expedition to reach the South Pole is one of the most famous journeys of all time.…
Recollections of Imperial Russia
In this memoir, Meriel Buchanan (9-5-1886 to 2-6-1959) links the history of Russia to powerful, lingering memories of her years living there…
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 Journal of Lewis and Clarke
"The expedition of Messrs. Lewis and Clarke, for exploring the river Missouri, and the best communication from that to the Pacific Ocea…
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…
Reminiscences of My Life in Camp
Susie King Taylor was a Black nurse in the 33rd United States Colored Troops in the Union Army during the American Civil War, a teacher and …
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…
With the Empress Dowager of China
Through the eyes of an artist, With the Empress Dowager of China provides a glimpse of life in the Chinese Imperial Court, unseen by any oth…
Narrative of the operations and recent discoveries
Giovanni Battista Belzoni (1778 – 1823) was an Italian explorer and pioneer archaeologist of Egyptian antiquities. He is known for his remo…
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…
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…
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…
Oscar Wilde and Myself
The first memoir by the poet Lord Alfred “Bosie” Douglas was written 14 years after the death of Oscar Wilde and in the aftermath of Douglas…
Three Years' Wanderings in the Northern Provinces of China
An account by Scottish botanist of his journey to China to discover the secret of producing tea and securing plants for propagation outside…
Letter from China
This is a poignant and irreverent diary of the author's yearlong (2001-2) experience of teaching English to college students in Beijing, Peo…
Confessions
“The smallest, the most trifling pleasure that is conveniently within my reach, tempts me more than all the joys of paradise.”Here again is …
The Story of My Misfortunes
Autobiographies from remote historical periods can be especially fascinating.Modes of self-presentation vary greatly across the centuries, a…