Specimen Days is essentially the great American poet Walt Whitman's scrap book. It documents most of his life's adventures, especially his experience...
Louise Amelia Knapp Smith Clappe moved to California from Massachusetts during the Gold Rush of the mid-1800’s. During her travels, Louise was offered...
Robert Falcon Scott's 'Journals' provide a raw and intimate account of his fateful expedition to the South Pole. The book, a primary source document,...
Mary Chesnut's 'Diary from Dixie' offers a unique and intimate perspective on the American Civil War from the vantage point of a Southern woman. Her d...
Beth Ellis's "An English Girl's First Impressions of Burmah" offers a glimpse into life in Burma during the British colonial era. The book is a well-e...
In the mid-1860s, Sarah Raymond Herndon embarked on a perilous journey across the Great Plains to Montana with her family. This book is an account of...
The Journal of Julius Rodman is a serialized novel written by Edgar Allan Poe in 1840. The novel was published in "Burton's Gentleman's Magazine" in s...
This book details a journey across Europe, specifically highlighting Mary Shelley's and Percy Bysshe Shelley's experiences in France, Switzerland, Ger...
This book compiles two diaries kept by young women, Susan R. Jervey and Charlotte St. Julien Ravenel, during the final months of the Civil War in Sout...
In Keith Laumer's 'Trace of Memory', Legion, a homeless wanderer, is drawn into a perplexing mystery when he encounters Foster. Foster claims to be pu...
This book presents the autobiography of Phineas Pett, a renowned Master Shipbuilder who played a pivotal role in the development of the English navy d...
Francis Asbury's journal offers a firsthand account of the spread of Methodism in America during the late 18th and early 19th centuries. It details hi...
