Memoirs of Casanova (1792) is the autobiography of Italian adventure and socialite Giacomo Casanova. Written at the end of his life, the Memoirs capture the experiences of one of E...więcej »
Memories of an Indian Boyhood (1902) is a memoir by Charles Eastman. Recognized for his achievements as a pioneering Native American physician, Eastman was also a prolific writer whose pe...więcej »
A Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Venture (1798) is an autobiography by Venture Smith. Written while Smith was living in freedom on his own farm in Connecticut, A Narrative of ...więcej »
A Negro Explorer at the North Pole (1912) is a memoir by Matthew Henson. Published a few years following an expedition to the planet's northernmost point--which he claims to have reached ...więcej »
Known for its advances in literature, industrialization, politics, and science, the Victorian era was a prominent time in British history. However, author Lytton Strachey remembers Queen Victori...więcej »
Rasputin the Rascal Monk (1917) is a work of historical nonfiction by Anglo-French writer William Le Queux. Published at the height of Le Queux's career as a leading author of popular thr...więcej »
A Son of the Forest (1829) is an autobiography by William Apes. An indentured servant, soldier, minister, and activist, Apes lived an uncommonly rich life for someone who died at just 41 ...więcej »
The Soul of the Indian: An Interpretation (1911) is a work of nonfiction by Charles Eastman. Recognized for his achievements as a pioneering Native American physician, Eastman was also a ...więcej »
From the time people first began to live in groups, successful societies have relied on the individual sense of duty as a means of creating and maintaining a moral, and law-abiding society. ...więcej »
Surviving your life - making your way through the good and bad - nudges you to make a record of it, to leave signposts for those who come after, especially your children. That was Sh...więcej »
What an amazing legacy Reg has left for future generations, for not only his family, but all of us. His story of a young boy growing up in rural Northern Michigan during the great depression is ...więcej »
I would have been about three years old, my siblings were at school. Aunty May was visiting and my father had not gone to work that day. Dad, May, and my mother drove...więcej »
It can be hard to see any joy in today's world, much less consider it magical. Part self-help, part memoir, Life is as Magical as You Make It is Michelle Nelson-Schmidt's ...więcej »
John Ruskin's training as an interdisciplinary polymath started in childhood. He learned to memorise the Bible at his mother's knee and published his first poem aged ten. His lifelong fa...więcej »
Ever felt like a challenge? For juggler and comedian, Jon Udry, the ABC Tour - 26 letters, 26 shows - seems the perfect way to shake things up.What started as a silly idea he believed w...więcej »
Guns N' Roses was quickly heralded as the greatest rock n roll band on the planet. During the late 80’s and 90’s the hedonistic rock gods Axl, Slash, Izzy, Steven and Duff scored...więcej »
A memoir of a half-century search for the meaning of life through meditation, visions and study with three spiritual teachers of India"I was no longer awar...więcej »
I watch from between slats in the wall of our house, shamelessly spying, yet I stare, breathless, and can't turn away. I sear this image into my brain-this moment, so special and beauti...więcej »
I traveled the world and I spoke to the oracles. In China I asked the ancient Terra Cotta Warriors. In Sweden I asked the Great Moose. On the Amazon River I asked the Ancient Tree. But none coul...więcej »
This book provides entirely new source material for the Gurdjieff Work. It is an authentic transcription of talks given by Madame Ouspensky to her group ...więcej »