18 books like The works of Washington Irving

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Astoria Washington Irving · 1800 · 400p · ≈ 13h · Challenging In 1811 a group of American traders built a fort at the mouth of the Columbia River, named Fort Astoria in honor of its financier, John Jacob Astor. Envisioned as the spur of a fur-trading empire, by 1813 the project was a business failure and the fort was surrendered to the British. But in its short life Astoria rendered incalculable benefits to public understanding of the Great Northwest. The… Shares Fur trade, Discovery and exploration, Commerce, Descriptions et voyages

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Coach Art Williams · 2006 · 321p · ≈ 10h · Moderate Now, for the first time, the complete story of A.L. Williams, told by the Coach himself! Art Williams shares the inspirational story of what it took to build a tiny "peanut" of a company into an industry giant. Full of heroes and villains, amazing victories and dashing defeats, this book is a must-read for anyone who's ever dreamed of building a team, of winning big, of doing what others said… Shares Histoire, Biography & Memoir, History

The Hudson Bay Company Robert Michael Ballantyne · 1848 · 189p · ≈ 6h · Challenging The author's first-hand account of the first 3 or 4 years of his career with the Hudson's Bay Company during the early part of the 1800's. Includes personal narratives of his day-to-day adventures, duties to "the Company", personal trials and tribulations in the far north country of Canada, trips and expeditions, and several accounts of his hunting and fishing excursions - all before the age of… Shares Fur trade, Commerce, Indians of North America, Description and travel

Autobiography of Lutfullah Lutfullah · 1857 · 429p · ≈ 14h · Challenging Book digitized by Google and uploaded to the Internet Archive by user tpb. Shares Descriptions et voyages, Description and travel, Biography & Memoir, History

Torches Together Emmy Arnold · 1964 · 220p · ≈ 7h · Moderate **Not many people talk about "joy" these days.** Emmy Arnold's memoir radiates just that - an enthusiasm for life and an unflagging optimism grounded in faith. In a genre awash in sordid sex and dysfunctional relationships, she offers a refreshing account of a hard life lived victoriously, of people brought together, despite their own weakness and turbulent times, to experience new levels of… Shares Biography & Memoir, History

The adventures of Captain Bonneville, U.S.A. Washington Irving · 1800 · 207p · ≈ 6h · Challenging While engaged in writing an account of the grand enterprise of Astoria, it was my practice to seek all kinds of oral information connected with the subject. Nowhere did I pick up more interesting particulars than at the table of Mr. John Jacob Astor; who, being the patriarch of the fur trade in the United States, was accustomed to have at his board various persons of adventurous turn, some of… Shares Fur trade, Descriptions et voyages, Description and travel, Biography & Memoir

America Theodor de Bry · 1590 · 42p · ≈ 1h · Challenging Shares Discovery and exploration, Indians of North America, Description and travel, Biography & Memoir with this book.

The rise of our East African Empire Lugard, Frederick John Dealtry Baron · 1893 · 1247p · ≈ 41h · Demanding Shares Discovery and exploration, Descriptions et voyages, Description and travel, History with this book.

Backwoods of Canada Catherine Parr Traill · 1836 · 243p · ≈ 8h · Challenging The toils, troubles, and satisfactions of pioneer life are recorded with charm and vivacity on *The Backwoods of Canada*, by Catherine Parr Traill, who, like her sister Susanna Moodie, left the comforts of genteel English society for the rigours of a new, young land. Traill offers a vivid and honest account of her trip to North America and of her first two and a helf years living in the bush… Shares Descriptions et voyages, Indians of North America, Description and travel, Biography & Memoir

Their Wedding Journey William Dean Howells · 1872 · ★ 3.2 · 64p · ≈ 2h · Challenging From the book:They first met in Boston, but the match was made in Europe, where they afterwards saw each other; whither, indeed, he followed her; and there the match was also broken off. Why it was broken off, and why it was renewed after a lapse of years, is part of quite a long love-story, which I do not think myself qualified to rehearse, distrusting my fitness for a sustained or involved… Shares American Authors, Descriptions et voyages, Description and travel, Biography & Memoir

Italian journeys William Dean Howells · 1867 · 264p · ≈ 8h · Challenging "In the later part of his long and productive life - he wrote well over a dozen novels, thirty-one dramas, a few volumes of verse, several autobiographical works, eleven books of travel - W. D. Howells was considered one of America's foremost men of letters."--BOOK JACKET. "Italian Journeys, published in 1867 and written during the four years Howells spent as an American consul in Venice, is… Shares American Authors, Descriptions et voyages, Description and travel, Biography & Memoir

Ralph Waldo Emerson Ralph Waldo Emerson · 1902 · ★ 3.2 · 31p · ≈ 1h · Moderate A new, wide-ranging selection of Ralph Waldo Emerson's most influential writings, this edition captures the essence of American Transcendentalism and illustrates the breadth of one of America's greatest philosophers and poets.The writings featured here show Emerson as a protester against social conformity, a lover of nature, an activist for the rights of women and slaves, and a poet of great… Shares Collected works, American Authors, History

The History, Civil and Commercial, of the British Colonies in the West Indies ...: In Two Volumes Bryan Edwards · 1789 · 512p · ≈ 17h · Challenging Shares Commerce, Descriptions et voyages, Histoire, Description and travel with this book.

Narrative of the adventures of Zenas Leonard Zenas Leonard · 1839 · ★ 3.0 · 87p · ≈ 2h · Challenging Zenas Leonard left his parents’ home in Pennsylvania in the early 1830’s to seek his fortune in the West. They did not hear from him for more than five years, and he was presumed dead. Then one day he showed up at their door, fresh from the Rocky Mountains. Everyone was eager to hear his story, so he wrote it down, first publishing part of it in a local newspaper, and later the entire account as… Shares Fur trade, Indians of North America, Description and travel, Biography & Memoir

The history of New-Hampshire Jeremy Belknap · 1784 · ★ 3.0 · 480p · ≈ 16h · Challenging Shares Descriptions et voyages, Indians of North America, Histoire, Description and travel with this book.

The autobiography of Theodore Roosevelt Theodore Roosevelt · 1913 · 606p · ≈ 20h · Challenging The autobiography of president Theodore Roosevelt. Shares Présidents, Presidents, Biography & Memoir, History

The Rough Riders Theodore Roosevelt · 1894 · 128p · ≈ 4h · Challenging "The Rough Riders (1899) is the story of the First U.S. Volunteer Cavalry, the regiment Roosevelt led to enduring fame in Cuba during the Spanish-American War. Roosevelt recounts how the regiment was raised from an unusual mixture of hardened southwestern frontiersmen and privileged northeastern college graduates, and how it trained in Texas and then sailed "southward through the topic seas… Shares Presidents, Biography & Memoir, History

Journal of Jasper Danckaerts Jasper Danckaerts · 1867 · 313p · ≈ 10h · Challenging Shares Descriptions et voyages, Histoire, Description and travel, History with this book.

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