Biography

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Life on the Mississippi

Mark Twain

The book begins with a brief history of the river as reported by Europeans and Americans, beginning with the Spanish explorer Hernando de Soto in 1542. It continues with anecdotes of Twain's training as a steamboat pilot, as the 'cub' (apprentice) of...

The Cruise of the Snark

Jack London

The log of the Snark states: ... still bore the tomahawk marks where the Malaitans at Langa Langa several months before broke in for the trove of rifles and ammunition locked therein, after bloodily slaughtering Jansen's predecessor, Captain Mackenzi...

Ten Years in Washington

Mary Clemmer

From 1866 to 1869, Ames resided in Washington, D.C. doing regular work in the way of "Women's Letters from Washington" for the New York Independent. In the spring of 1866, Ames wrote from Washington her first letter to the Independent. From then on,...

The Wright Brothers

Anonymous

The Wright brothers were two American aviation pioneers generally credited with inventing, building, and flying the world's first successful motor-operated airplane. They made the first controlled, sustained flight of a powered, heavier-than-air airc...

Under the Turk in Constantinople: A record of Sir John Finch's Embassy

George Frederick Abbott

The history of Anglo-Turkish relations as a whole still remains to be written—a strange and not very creditable fact, considering the part which the Ottoman Empire has played in our commercial and political career since the age of Queen Elizabe...

The Diary of a U-boat Commander

Sir Stephen King-Hall

The diary of a World War One U-Boat commander. As well as being a interesting see of life on the German U-boats amid the strongly submarine bar, this moreover reminds us there were people included - on both sides of the activity - as we studied as we...

War and Peace

Lev Tolstoy

In Russia's battle with Napoleon, Tolstoy saw a catastrophe that included all mankind. More noteworthy than a chronicled chronicle, War and Peace is an certification of life itself,  a total picture, as a modern analyst put it, of everything in...

THE PIGEON TUNNEL: STORIES FROM MY LIFE

John Le Carre

The Pigeon Tunnel is the first memoir by one of the greatest writers of our time, Mr. John le Carré. He wrote several award-winning bestsellers that were also turned into record-breaking movies and TV shows. As for the book, it's smart, dramat...

THE GIFT

Louise Jensen

Louise Jensen is known for writing un-put-down-able psychological thrillers with mighty twists and turns that you can never see coming, and The Gift is one of the best books to date. Jenna, a regular modern-day girl, is given a second chance at life...