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Lineage, Life and Labors of José Rizal - Philippine Patriot
by Austin CraigLineage, Life and Labors of José Rizal : Philippine Patriot is the biography of the Philippine revolutionary hero Jose Rizal written by the American historian Austin Craig. Executed by the Spanish army at the age of 35, Jose Rizal has been considered the national hero of Philippines, his novels, poems and essays ignited the people of his nation dur..
Sir Charles Napier - An Autobiography
by Sir William Francis ButlerExcepts from the bookAt midnight on January 5th the little column started for Emanghur,—three hundred and fifty men of the Twenty-Second Regiment on camels—two men on each—two twenty-four pounders drawn by camels, and two hundred troopers of the Scinde Horse, with fifteen days' food and four days' water. From a group of wells called Choonka, Napier..
Life of Isaac Mason as a Slave
by Isaac MasonLife of Isaac Mason as a Slave is the personal memoir of Isaac Mason narrating his painful days as slave. Like many autobiographies on slavery, this memoir also heart touching and let us visualize the dark days of human life due to slavery. Excerpts:In Kent County, in the northern part of the State of Maryland, there was at the time of my ear..
Boswell's Life of Johnson
by James BoswellThe Life of Samuel Johnson is the biography of the English Poet Samuel Johnson and considered as the greatest biography written in the modern biography genre. Johnson was described as the most distinguished man of letters in English history. James Boswell, the author of this biography was an Scottish Lawyer and his surname went on to get his ..
My Life at Sea
by W. Caius CrutchleyMy Life at Sea is an autobiography of the COMMANDER W. CAIUS CRUTCHLEY, a sailor who began his life at sea in sailing-ships, in the age of the Black Ball liners, the Baltimore clipper-ships, and those perfect specimens of naval architecture built in Aberdeen for the China tea trade. Captain Crutchley tells of the hardships of the sea. He gives stir..
Great-Heart
by Daniel HendersonGreat-Heart is the life story of American President Theodore Roosevelt Written by Daniel Henderson. The work has been approached from the viewpoint of one who was not a partisan; of one disposed to be critical; of one who, however, viewing Roosevelt’s career as a whole, was so moved by its grandeur that he became impelled to play what par..
The Sufferings and Escape of Capt. Chas. H. Brown From an Awful Imprisonment
by Chilian ConvictsThe preface to a book is very often nothing more than a respectable cloak, allowed by the conventionalities of literature, in which an author may wrap his excuses and apologies for troubling the public with his lucubrations. This dressing up of excuses in order to introduce them into notice under another name, is a thing so tempting to poor human n..
Kelly of the Foreign Legion
by Russell A. KellyThe first seven chapters of this book are letters received from Russell A. Kelly, age 21, volunteer in the Légion étrangère. The letters, many of which were published in the New York Evening Sun, were sent to his parents in New York and have been retained in exactly their original form except for the omission of strictly personal matters. The last ..