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In this 1909 autobiography, we learn how the explorer Henry Morton Stanley was driven to succeed by his troubled childhood. After his death, his wife... Læs mere
Alfred Russel Wallace (1823–1913) was a British naturalist, explorer, geographer and biologist, best remembered as the co-discoverer, with Darwin, of natural... Læs mere
Alfred Russel Wallace (1823–1913) was a British naturalist, explorer, geographer and biologist, best remembered as the co-discoverer, with Darwin, of natural... Læs mere
The dramatic life of Annie Besant (1847-1933) included a conversion to atheism and a prosecution for publishing material on birth control. Her radical writings and... Læs mere
This 1908 biography of the British statesman, diplomat and administrator... Læs mere
In this 1872 sequel to his autobiography Incidents in My Life (1863), the nineteenth-century medium D. D. Home responds to the criticism levelled at him by reviewers,... Læs mere
The nineteenth-century medium D. D. Home here describes the extraordinary psychic events in his life, from his first vision at the age of thirteen to the séances he held for the... Læs mere
Harriet Ann Jacobs (1813-1897) was born into slavery in North Carolina, but escaped to the north. She became involved with the Anti-Slavery... Læs mere
First published in 1943, and reprinted with corrections in 1944, this is the autobiography of the medievalist and historian G. G. Coulton, written only a few years before his death in... Læs mere
This book contains the German text of selected sections of Otto von Bismarck's three-volume autobiography Gedanken und Erinnerungen. It covers Bismarck's youth briefly... Læs mere
First published in 2000, this book is a modern and accessible edition of a manuscript journal kept by Thomas Juxon, a Puritan Londoner, who traded in sugar. The journal offers an eyewitness account from the latter stages of the civil war to the crisis of the summer of 1647.
This volume is an account of what Japan was like in the last years of the Tokugawa feudal regime. Hall's journal is filled with details... Læs mere