Biography Books

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..

The Black Man - His Antecedents, His Genius, and His Achievements

William Wells Brown

The Black Man: His Antecedents, His Genius, and His Achievements the biographical works of African-American written by William Wells Brown. The second class are those who are ignorant of the character..

The Ways of War

Tom Kettle

Perhaps the order of the chapters in the present book requires a word of explanation. They have a natural sequence as the confessions of an Irish man of letters as to why he felt called upon to offer ..