e-books in Historical Biographies & Memoirs category
David Livingstoneby C. Silvester Horne - Macmillan and co. , 1916
The author has aimed not so much at telling the story as at allowing the story to tell itself. It may be added that, in the belief of the writer, Livingstone is greatest, not as a scientist, nor an explorer, but as a man and a missionary.
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Vitus Bering: the Discoverer of Bering Straitby Peter Lauridsen - S. C. Griggs & Co. , 1889
Vitus Bering (1681-1741) was a Danish-born Russian navigator. Published in English translation for the American market in 1889, this sympathetic biography by the historian and geographer Peter Lauridsen, had originally appeared in Danish in 1885.
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Two Years Before the Mastby Richard Henry Dana - D. Appleton and Co. , 1899
Tracing an awe-inspiring oceanic route from Boston, around Cape Horn, to the California coast, this book is both a riveting story of adventure and the most eloquent, insightful account we have of life at sea in the early nineteenth century.
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Border and Bastilleby George A. Lawrence - W.I. Pooley & Co. , 1863
This is the story of the author's adventurous trip from England to the Southern states during the War Between the States to serve in the Army of Northern Virginia. He was taken prisoner and only released on promising to return to England.
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Who Was Who: 5000 B. C. to Dateby Irwin L. Gordon - ManyBooks
Who Was Who by Irwin L. Gordon contains over 500 biographies of those who did or endeavored to become famous. This is a wry and quirky humorous dictionary of personages in history whether of biblical, religious, and/or secular bent.
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Shattered Crystalsby M.A. Kanner, E.R. Kugler - shatteredcrystals.net , 2009
In Shattered Crystals, Mia Amalia Kanner recounts the true story of her struggle to save her family from annihilation in Nazi Germany and war-torn France. It is about a courageous Jewish woman, yet this is much more than a Holocaust history.
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A Voyage to the South Seaby William Bligh - G. Nicol , 1792
William Bligh's second book about the Bounty mutiny, with a more detailed account of the breadfruit expedition that preceded the mutiny. He enlarged on his original work, providing the complete start to finish narrative in a single volume.
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Ten Days That Shook the Worldby John Reed - Boni and Liveright , 1919
In Ten Days That Shook the World John Reed tells the story of Red October and the Russian revolution from a unique, firsthand perspective. Reed recounts conversations and arguments, details political machinations, and speculates on personal motives.
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Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparteby Louis Antoine Fauvelet de Bourrienne - Charles Scribner's Sons , 1891
This incredible set begins with Napoleon's birth in Corsica in 1769 and ends with his entombment in the Invalides in Paris in 1840. These four volumes include chronologies, text, letters, and many many insights, both personal and professional.
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Hypatia: Her Life and Timesby Faith L. Justice - Smashwords , 2012
Hypatia has been the subject of much mythmaking through the centuries. She's the subject of poetry, plays, novels and movies. These articles pull back the curtain and let the reader see the real Hypatia. She needs no embellishments to her story.
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Neroby C. Suetonius Tranquillus - ManyBooks , 1919
The work, written in AD 121, was the most popular work of Suetonius, Hadrian's personal secretary, and is the largest among his surviving writings. It is considered very significant in antiquity and remains a primary source on Roman history.
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My Searchby Josef Ben-Eliezer - The Plough Publishing House , 1999
In a world that is increasingly torn by hatred and war, is there an answer to the need of humanity? This is a fascinating account of survival against all odds, and the story of one man's search for the answers to the questions that face us all.
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Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romansby Plutarch
A brilliant social history of the ancient world by one of the greatest biographers of all time. In his most famous and influential work, Plutarch reveals the character and personality of his subjects and how they led ultimately to tragedy or victory.
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Memoirs of the Life of Anne Boleyn, Queen of Henry VIIIby Elizabeth Benger, Lucy Aikin - Longman , 1827
Anne Boleyn was Queen of England from 1533 - 1536 as the second wife of King Henry VIII and Marquess of Pembroke in her own right. Her subsequent execution made her a key figure in the religious upheaval that was the start of the English Reformation.
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Up From Slavery: An Autobiographyby Booker T. Washington - Doubleday, Page & Co. , 1907
Born into slavery, Booker T. Washington is freed when he is nine years old. To help support his family, he then works as a salt packer, coal miner, and house servant. All the while, he longs to become educated and to educate others.
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The Collected Works of Abraham Lincolnby Abraham Lincoln - The Abraham Lincoln Association , 2006
Abraham Lincoln was the sixteenth President of the United States, serving from 1861 until his assassination. This immense collection includes Lincoln's speeches, letters, and telegrams. It provides a vivid picture of history as lived day-to-day.
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David Crockett: His Life and Adventuresby John S. C. Abbott - Project Gutenberg , 2009
Colonel David Stern Crockett (August 17, 1786 - March 6, 1836) was a celebrated 19th-century American folk hero, frontiersman, soldier and politician; usually referred to as Davy Crockett and by the popular title 'King of the Wild Frontier'.
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The Life of Christopher Columbusby Edward Everett Hale - Howe , 1891
This book contains a life of Columbus, written with the hope of interesting all classes of readers. I have followed on the lines of his own personal narrative wherever we have it. And where this is lost I have used the contemporary authorities.
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An American Engineer in Stalin's Russia: The Memoirs of Zara Witkinby Zara Witkin - University of California Press , 1991
In 1932 Witkin set off for the Soviet Union to help build a society more just and rational than the bankrupt capitalist system at home. He felt beaten in the end by the lethargy and corruption choking the greatest social experiment in history.
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Villehardouin and de Joinville: Memoirs of the Crusadesby Geoffroi de Villehardouin - Dutton , 1955
Written by eye-witnesses who had taken an important part in what they describe. Stirring episodes in one of the most stirring chapters in human history. How Christendom put forth its power to capture and again recapture the holy land.
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The Young Hitler I Knewby August E. V. Anderson - Houghton Mifflin Company , 1955
An extraordinary memoir by a man who actually met Hitler in 1904. Their passion for music created a friendship, and a roommate situation. This book deals with the darkest, perhaps the most formative, and the most interesting period of Hitler's life.
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