Biography Books

Heroes Every Child Should Know

Hamilton Wright Mabie

The endeavour has been made in this volume to bring together the heroic men of different races, periods and types; and in the selection of material the most attractive, intelligent and authoritative l..

Among the Tibetans

Isabella L. Bird

Isabella L. Bird was an English traveller, writer and natural historian. She was travelling in the Far East alone at a time when such endeavours were risky and dangerous even for men and large, better..

The Herschels and Modern Astronomy

Agnes Mary Clerke

Sir John Herschel’s life has yet to be written. The published materials for it are scanty, although they have been reinforced by the inclusion in the late Mr. Graves’s “Life of Sir William Rowan Hamil..

The story of my childhood

Clara Barton

There can be no doubt that my advent into the family was at least a novelty, as the last before me was a beautiful blue-eyed, curly-haired little girl of a dozen summers. That the event was probably l..

Adam Smith

Francis W. Hirst

Adam Smith was born on June 5, 1723, in the “lang toun” of Kirkcaldy. It was one of the “mony royal boroughs yoked on end to end like ropes of ingans, with their hie-streets and their booths, and thei..

H. G. Hawker, airman - his life and work

Muriel Hawker

Hawker, thirty years ago, was an impossibility, but when he died he was the idealised sportsman of the youth of the country, and it was rightly so. Modest in triumph, hard-working, a tremendous “stick..

Trips in the Life of a Locomotive Engineer

Henry Dawson

In the year 185- I was running an engine on the —— road. My engine was named the Racer, and a "racer" she was, too; her driving-wheels were seven feet in diameter, and she could turn them about as fas..

Gene Stratton Porter

Anonymous

Gene Stratton Porter won wide popularity and a special place in the 2hearts of her readers; no contemporary author was better loved or acclaimed by the reading public. Fifty million readers of her own..