Memoirs

Ourselves, Book I. Self-Knowledge

by Charlotte Mason Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.5
This is Book I of the forth volume in the Home Education Series detailing Charlotte Mason's method of education. This volume is subtitled O…

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 …

The Wide, Wide World

by Susan Warner Read by Bridget Gaige 4.6
"How should a seven year old child react when forced to be separated from a mother who meant everything to her? How should she react wh…

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…

Recollections of a Missionary in the Great West

by Cyrus Townsend Brady Read by David Wales 4.5
Brady was a journalist, historian, adventure writer, and Episcopal priest. As a priest he spent some time on the American frontier as a miss…

Detailed Minutiae of Soldier Life in the Army of Northern Virginia

by Carlton Mccarthy Read by David Leeson 4.5
The author, who fought as a private in the Army of Northern Virginia during the Civil War, describes the Confederate soldier’s daily struggl…

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…

In the Field

by Marcel Dupont Read by FNH 4.6
I have merely tried to make a written record of some of the hours I have lived through during the course of this war. A modest Lieutenant of…

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 …

The Dawn of a To-morrow

by Frances Hodgson Burnett Read by Linda Andrus 4.4
A wealthy London business man takes a room in a poor part of the city.He is depressed and has decided to take his life by going the next day…

The Maine Woods

by Henry David Thoreau Read by Expatriate 4.6
On August 31, 1846, twenty-nine-year-old Henry David Thoreau left his cabin on Walden Pond to undertake a railroad and steamboat journey to …

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…

The Story of My Life

by Helen Keller Read by Maria 4.5
The Story of My Life is a personal account of Helen Keller's life, from her early days to those as an adult. It includes how she came to mee…

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…

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 (…

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…

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…

The Lure of the Labrador Wild

by Dillon Wallace Read by Tom Weiss 4.7
The Lure Of The Labrador Wild is a account of a expedition by Leonidas Hubbard, an adventurer and journalist to canoe the system Naskaupi Ri…

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