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My first summer in the Sierra John Reid Muir · 1911 · ★ 4.1 · 164p · ≈ 5h · Challenging Introduction by Mike Davis; Illustrated with photographs by Herbert W. Gleason and drawings by the author Shares: Naturalists, Natural history, Nature, Biography & Memoir

The life and letters of Charles Darwin Charles Darwin · 1887 · 575p · ≈ 19h · Challenging The Life and Letters of Charles Darwin is a book published in 1887 edited by Francis Darwin about his father Charles Darwin. It contains a selection of 87 letters from the correspondence of Charles Darwin , an autobiographical chapter written by Charles Darwin for his family, and an essay by Thomas Huxley "On the reception of the 'Origin of Species'". Shares: Naturalists, Natural history, Biography & Memoir

Paul Kelver Jerome Klapka Jérôme · 1902 · 322p · ≈ 10h · Challenging IN WHICH THE AUTHOR SEEKS TO CAST THE RESPONSIBILITY OF THIS STORY UPON ANOTHER. Shares: English Authors, Authors, Biography & Memoir

A Reporter's Life Walter Cronkite · 1996 · 637p · ≈ 21h · Moderate Walter Cronkite gives an account of his personal life as that of a reporter and T.V. newscaster. Shares: Journalists, Biography & Memoir

The natural history of Selborne Gilbert White · 1789 · 475p · ≈ 15h · Demanding The Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne, or just The Natural History of Selborne is a book by English naturalist and ornithologist Gilbert White. It was first published in 1789 by his brother Benjamin. It has been continuously in print since then, with nearly 300 editions up to 2007. Shares: Naturalists, Natural history, Biography & Memoir

War Boy Michael Foreman · 1990 · ★ 4.0 · 92p · ≈ 3h · Moderate An English artist writes and illustrates a memoir of his own wartime childhood. Shares: Country life, English Authors, Authors, Biography & Memoir

Experiment in autobiography H. G. Wells · 1934 · 718p · ≈ 23h · Challenging En un momento de desgaste personal y abierto escepticismo, H.G. Wells, uno de los escritores más importantes de la literatura occidental, realizó el relato de su vida hasta 1934, fecha de publicación de este Experimento en autobiografía. En una primera parte, el autor de La máquina del tiempo o La guerra de los mundos, repasa su niñez, la vida familiar y una embrollada educación, el periplo como… Shares: English Authors, Journalists, Biography & Memoir

The sylvan year Hamerton, Philip Gilbert · 1876 · 243p · ≈ 8h · Challenging Shares: Natural history, Nature, Biography & Memoir

Malory Christina Hardyment · 2005 · ★ 3.9 · 634p · ≈ 21h · Moderate Sir Thomas Malory's Morte Darthur (1469) is one of the most renown books in the world. Virtually all modern versions of the Arthurian legends are derived from its energetic, memorably phrased and remarkably individual telling of the stirring exploits of King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table. Yet the identity of the fifteenth-century knight who wrote it has remained an enigma for… Shares: English Authors, Authors, Great Britain, Biography & Memoir

Moments of vision Thomas Hardy · 1889 · 184p · ≈ 6h · Challenging ix, 443 p. ; 23 cm Shares: Country life, English Authors, Criticism and interpretation

Here Lies Eric Ambler · 1985 · 234p · ≈ 7h · Moderate Winner of the Edgar Award, Eric Ambler’s autobiography Here Lies is an intriguing look inside the mind of one of our greatest thriller writers. Here the famously recalcitrant Ambler peels back the layers of experience that affected his life with the same skill he uses to unfold the plots of his novels. His South London childhood; his brief engineering career, which he gave up to work in theater;… Shares: English Authors, Authors, Biography & Memoir

The Autobiography of Charles Darwin Charles Darwin · 1929 · ★ 3.8 · 150p · ≈ 5h · Challenging Darwin wrote the book, which he entitled Recollections of the Development of my Mind and Character, for his family. He still stands as the leading figure of that revolution in scientific thought which followed the publication of the Origin of Species in the middle of the 19th century, a revolution soon involving all realms of knowledge. But posterity must continually reassess the past,… Shares: Naturalists, Great Britain, Biography & Memoir

Ian Fleming Andrew Lycett · 1995 · ★ 3.7 · 486p · ≈ 16h · Moderate Sportsman, womanizer, naval commander, world-traveler, spy, the suave Old Etonian creator of the Cold War's archetypal secret agent was infinitely more complicated and interesting than his major fictional character, Agent 007, as Lycett shows in this full-length biography of Ian Fleming. Shares: Journalists, Authors, Biography & Memoir

The Open Air Richard Jefferies · 1885 · 270p · ≈ 9h · Challenging Papers originally contributed to various English periodicals. Saint Guido.--Golden-brown.--Wild flowers.--Sunny Brighton.--The pine wood.--Nature on the roof.--One of the new voters.--The modern Thames.--The single-barrel gun.--The haunt of the hare.--The bathing season.--Under the acorns.--Downs.--Forest.--Beauty in the country.--Out of doors in February.--Haunts of the lapwing.--Outside… Shares: Natural history, Country life

Cowper Goldwin Smith · 1800 · 128p · ≈ 4h · Challenging In this masterful biography, Goldwin Smith presents the life and works of William Cowper (1731-1800), whom Samuel Taylor Coleridge called “the best modern poet". Tracing Cowper's life—from his beginnings in England to his death—Smith analyzes his major lyrical works and as well as his hymns. Smith also offers an examination of the writer's lasting influence on Romantic poetry. Shares: English Authors, Authors, Biography & Memoir

Clairvoyance and occult powers Swami Panchadasi · 1916 · 208p · ≈ 6h · Challenging Explore the occult and open your clairvoyant senses with the help of the wisdom of Swami Panchadasi. Shares: New Age, Spirituality

On a Chinese screen William Somerset Maugham · 1922 · 242p · ≈ 8h · Challenging On a Chinese Screen was first published in 1922 by Heinemann Publishers, London. Its 58 short vignettes are based on Maugham’s travels along the Yangtze River from 1919 to 1920. Although later editions of the book added the subtitle “Sketches of Life in China,” there are actually only a few descriptions of the places he visited and the local Chinese people he met; rather, Maugham focuses on… Shares: English Authors, Authors, Biography & Memoir

Far away and long ago W. H. Hudson · 1918 · ★ 3.9 · 332p · ≈ 11h · Challenging Argentinian-English ornithologist and writer William Henry Hudson recounts his early years in Argentina and his move to England in this 1918 autobiography. Shares: Naturalists, English Authors, Biography & Memoir

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