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  • Dostoevsky Reminiscences
    Anna Grigor’evna Sni Dostoevskaia / Beatrice Stillman
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    23,78 €

  • We Thought We Could Do Anything
    Henry Ephron
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    16,62 €

  • Stroke
    Charles Clay Dahlberg / Joseph Jaffe
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    15,78 €

  • On Shares
    Jane Maguire
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    16,60 €

  • The West of the Texas Kid 1881-1910
    Thomas Edgar Crawford
    Not long before his death in 1941, cowboy, rancher, and sometime outlaw Thomas Edgar Crawford dictated recollections of his life in the West from 1881 to 1910. Crawford teamed up with such notorious characters as Black Jack Ketchum and Henry Starr, and after taking up ranching in Montana, he tried his hand at gold mining in California. His story constitutes an amazing record of...
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    31,18 €

  • Confrontations with Myself
    Helene Deutsch
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    16,60 €

  • Varese
    Louise Varese
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    19,04 €

  • Hey, White Girl!
    Susan Gregory
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    16,62 €

  • Living on the Edge
    Shannon L Kollmeyer
    For half a century, Shannon L. Kollmeyer has hunted and fished across North America, Africa, Mexico, and New Zealand. Kollmeyer has also been a member of numerous hunting and wildlife conservation organizations and developed wildlife conservation projects on private lands. Now, as the author of Living on the Edge: Adventures of a Hunter, Kollmeyer offers a collection of adventu...
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    79,33 €

  • With MacArthur in Japan
    William Sebald
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    18,93 €

  • Squarely Behind the Beavers
    Philbrook Paine
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    15,82 €

  • The Salt-Box
    Jan Hilliard
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    15,72 €

  • Mark Twain’s Autobiography
    Mark Twain
    'Start (an autobiography) at no particular time of your life; wander at your free will all over your life; talk only about the thing which interests you for the moment; drop it the moment its interest threatens to pale, and turn your talk upon the new and more interesting thing that has intruded itself into your mind meantime.'-Mark Twain Mark Twain’s Autobiography published ...
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    38,45 €

  • Power And Authority
    Annie Browne
    Through the first person, Browne enters the lives of each main character - working through individual issues, challenges, and the changes that are coming in society. The consequences are both horrific and heartbreaking - and build towards the conclusion...Can the twentieth-century woman subtly shift the power system within marriage?Through following the lives of these Victorian...
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    22,62 €

  • My Life and Work
    Henry Ford
    My Life and Work is a classic autobiography of the great American business mogul, Henry Ford.Henry Ford (July 30, 1863 – April 7, 1947) was an American industrialist, the founder of the Ford Motor Company, and sponsor of the development of the assembly line technique of mass production. Although Ford did not invent the automobile or the assembly line, he developed and manufactu...
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    15,70 €

  • Mark Twain’s Letters, Volume II (In Two Volumes)
    Mark Twain
    'Nowhere is the human being more truly revealed than in his letters. Not in literary letters-prepared with care, and the thought of possible publication-but in those letters wrought out of the press of circumstances, and with no idea of print in mind.'-Albert Bigelow Paine, Foreword, Mark Twain’s Letters (1917) Mark Twain’s Letters (in two volumes) is a collection of letters ...
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    32,18 €

  • Mark Twain’s Letters, Volume I (in Two Volumes)
    Mark Twain
    'Nowhere is the human being more truly revealed than in his letters. Not in literary letters-prepared with care, and the thought of possible publication-but in those letters wrought out of the press of circumstances, and with no idea of print in mind.'-Albert Bigelow Paine, Foreword, Mark Twain’s Letters (1917) Mark Twain’s Letters (in two volumes) is a collection of letters ...
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    32,10 €

  • Path Breaking
    Abigail Scott Duniway
    Tenacious advocate for women’s rights Abigail Scott Duniway offers her life story, describing the intense, decades-long struggle to attain voting rights for American women.Although the author recalls her own upbringing and ascendance to a position of leadership in the Women’s Suffrage movement of the late 19th century, she is emphatically clear almost from the start that this n...
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    14,93 €

  • The Story of My Boyhood and Youth
    John Muir
    The Story of My Boyhood and Youth is a stirring autobiography by the great American naturalist, John Muir.'When I was a boy in Scotland I was fond of everything that was wild, and all my life I’ve been growing fonder and fonder of wild places and wild creatures. Fortunately around my native town of Dunbar, by the stormy North Sea, there was no lack of wildness, though most of t...
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    24,53 €

  • Is Shakespeare Dead?
    Mark Twain
    'From away back toward the very beginning of the Shakespeare-Bacon controversy I have been on the Bacon side, and have wanted to see our majestic Shakespeare unhorsed. My reasons for this attitude may have been good, they may have been bad, but such as they were, they strongly influenced me.'-Mark Twain  (1909)Is Shakespeare Dead?-From My Autobiography (1909), by Mark Twain, is...
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    18,35 €

  • My Apprenticeship (Two Volumes in One)
    Beatrice Webb
    'It would be curious to discover who it is to whom one writes in a diary. Possibly to some mysterious personification of one’s own identity.' -Beatrice Potter Webb, My ApprenticeshipIn My Apprenticeship (1926), Beatrice Potter Webb provided the first of several memoirs based on diaries she kept. It begins the story of her life starting at the age of 4 and describes her developm...
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    55,87 €

  • The Memoirs of William Jennings Bryan
    Mary Baird Bryan / William Jennings Bryan
    'The way to develop self-confidence is to do the thing you fear, and get a record of successful experiences behind you.'-William Jennings Bryan The Memoirs of William Jennings Bryan (1925) consists of quotations from Bryan’s speeches and correspondence interspersed with commentary written by his wife after his death. It is a document that explains Bryan’s complex belief system,...
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    48,43 €

  • Memories of My Life
    Francis Galton
    '... hardly any other living Englishman can point to so great an amount of truly scientific work applied to some of the fundamental problems of human welfare.' -G.E. Gehlke, Political Science Quarterly (1910)In Memories of My Life (1908), Sir Francis Galton provided a detailed autobiography that starts with a description of his family of origin (he was a cousin of Charles Darwi...
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    20,80 €

  • The Private Memoirs of Madame Roland
    Marie-Jeanne Roland
    'If we do not die for liberty, we shall soon have nothing left to do but weep for her.'-Memoirs of Madame de Staël and of Madame Roland (1847)The Private Memoirs of Madame Roland (1795) is a justification of the author’s and others’ roles in the French Revolution. Written while the author was imprisoned during the months before her execution, it was smuggled to a close friend, ...
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    25,83 €

  • Up From Slavery
    Booker T. Washington / Booker TWashington
    Born into slavery. First leader of the Tuskegee Institute.  Political advisor to Presidents. This is his voice.  This is his story.“I have begun everything with the idea that I could succeed, and I never had much patience with the multitudes of people who are always ready to explain why one cannot succeed,” states Washington.Read of his inspirational life in this unabridged, af...
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    17,58 €

  • Up from Slavery
    Booker T. Washington / Booker TWashington
    Born into slavery. First leader of the Tuskegee Institute.  Political advisor to Presidents. This is his voice.  This is his story.“I have begun everything with the idea that I could succeed, and I never had much patience with the multitudes of people who are always ready to explain why one cannot succeed,” states Washington.Read of his inspirational life in this unabridged, af...
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    8,37 €

  • Maria Mitchell
    Maria Mitchell
    Maria Mitchell was among the first female astronomers. This is her story in her own words, compiled from letters and diary entries as she toured academies to deliver her scientific lectures.Born in Massachusetts in 1818, Maria demonstrated an affinity for astronomy and science from a young age. At the time it was almost impossible for a woman to gain a formal education in scien...
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    12,20 €

  • Recollections of Abraham Lincoln 1847-1865
    TBD / Ward Hill Lamon
    This classic political biography is among the most thorough and fascinating biographies of the great American president Abraham Lincoln. In addition to the expected biographical content, this book is comprised of letters from Lincoln and his associates that provide intimate insights to the final two decades of the great man’s life.Abraham Lincoln (February 12, 1809 – April 15, ...
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    26,30 €

  • Across the Plains
    Robert Louis Stevenson
    'America was to me a sort of promised land; ’westward the march of empire holds its way’; the race is for the moment to the young; what has been and what is we imperfectly and obscurely know; what is to be yet lies beyond the flight of our imaginations. . . 'Robert Louis Stevenson, The Amateur Emigrant Across the Plains with Other Memories and Essays (1892) by Robert Louis Ste...
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    18,72 €

  • John G. Paton, Missionary to the New Hebrides
    John G. Paton / John GPaton
    John G. Paton narrates his eventful life as a missionary to the New Hebrides - modern-day Vanuatu - in a frank and vivid manner. Beginning with his upbringing and education in Scotland, we realize early on that Paton carried unusual dedication and energy in his studies. Determining that he would become a man of God, spreading the word of the Christian gospel as a missionary, it...
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    12,46 €


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