The Cynics Word Book

by Ambrose Bierce

The Cynic's Word Book is written by Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce, an American multifaceted personality who has many credits to his professions as a journalist, editorialist, satirist, fabulist and a short story writer. The Cynic’s work book was originally published as an occasional newspaper, later published in the book form with a title The Devil's ..

My Arctic journal - a year among ice-fields and Eskimos

by Josephine Diebitsch Peary

This plain and simple narrative of a year spent by a refined woman in the realm of the dreaded Frost King has been written only after persistent and urgent pressure from friends, by one who shrank from publicity, and who reluctantly yielded to the idea that her experiences might be of interest to others besides her immediate friends.I have been req..