Memoirs Books

Two Years in the Forbidden City

Princess Der Ling

Two Years in the Forbidden City is a personal memoir of Princess Der Ling, a Hanjun bannerwoman, the daughter of Yu Keng. Her father was a member of the Hanjun Plain White Banner Corps, and ..

Camps, Quarters, and Casual Places

Archibald Forbes

Camps, Quarters, and Casual Places is a memoir by Archibald Forbes was a Scottish war correspondent. Excerpts:The interval between the declaration of the Franco-German war of 1870-71, and th..

Father and Son - A Study of Two Temperaments

Edmund Gosse

Father and Son is a memoir by poet and critic Edmund Gosse, which he subtitled "a study of two temperaments." The book describes Edmund's early years in an exceptionally devout Plymouth Brethren home...

A Journey to America in 1834

Robert Heywood

A Journey to America in 1834 is a travel writing by Robert Heywood...

Alaska

Jón Ólafsson

Alaska is a travel description written in Icelandic language by Jón Ólafsson, an Icelandic traveller noted for his autobiography which covers his travels in Europe and later to the Danish settlement o..

France at War - On the Frontier of Civilization

Rudyard Kipling

The collection of journalistic pieces is preceded by a poem, "France", that had been published before the outbreak of war (in 1913) which has a more overblown jingoistic feel to it than the reflection..

Letters of Travel (1892-1913)

Rudyard Kipling

Three books of travel writing by the Nobel Prize winning author of the Just So Stories and the Jungle Book. Rudyard Kipling (an Englishman born and raised in India) offers an interesting outsider's vi..

Kansas Women in Literature

Nettie Garmer Barker

Kansas Women in Literature is a collection of biographies of women writers and their contributions to the literature. Written by Nettie Garmer Barker this work contains more than 20 writers biogr..