Frederick: 2206 books

This book contains slave narratives from Harriet Tubman, Frederick Douglass, Reverend Noah Davis, Josiah Henson, James W. C. Pennington, John Thompson, and Henry Watson, all of whom had major connections to Maryland.   It also contains twenty-two additional slave narratives collected by...

"Selous is the most famous hunter in all Africa." -The American Frederick Courteney Selous (1851 – 1917) was a British explorer, officer, hunter, and conservationist, famous for his exploits in Southeast Africa. His real-life adventures inspired Sir H. Rider Haggard to create the...

The author's biography is included in this version. White Shadows in the South Seas by Frederick O'Brien is one of the fiction best sellers in 1921. Frederick O'Brien wrote this book during the year he spent in the South Pacific with Samoan islanders. A silent film was made in 1928 based on this adventure romance novel.

With the development of the Internet, anyone with a computer can comment on the events of the day in a manner as potentially widespread as other prominent media personalities. In a world where news breaks at the speed of light, often the quickest way to respond is through short blog posts and social...

This unique collection consists of the most influential memoirs - powerful & unflinching narratives of former slaves and stories of people who helped them; including records and letters which unfold all the hardship, hair-breadth escapes and death struggles of the slaves in their efforts to reach...

From Frederick Forsyth, the grand master of international suspense, comes his most intriguing story ever—his own.     For more than forty years, Frederick Forsyth has been writing extraordinary real-world novels of intrigue, from the groundbreaking The Day of the Jackal to the prescient The Kill...

Golden Deer Classics proudly presents the Orientalism compilation which regroups major orientalist works (both paintings and writings). Orientalism is a term used by scholars in art history, literary, geography, and cultural studies for the depiction of Eastern, that is "Oriental" cultures,...

Known to his friends and family as Fred, Frederick Raymond Homer could have a stern exterior, but all who knew him loved him for his big heart and generous spirit. This is the story of his life as he wrote it. He was born in Idaho Falls, Idaho in May of 1926. He spent his childhood and adolescence...

Mr. Midshipman Easy is an 1836 novel by Frederick Marryat, a retired Captain in the 19th century Royal Navy. The novel is set during the Napoleonic Wars, in which Marryat himself served with distinction. It was adapted twice into films in 1916 and in 1935 as Midshipman Easy. Captain Frederick...

Captain Marryat's Collected works  is contained 13 works written by Captain Frederick Marryat (10 July 1792 – 9 August 1848) was an English Royal Navy officer, novelist, and a contemporary and acquaintance of Charles Dickens, noted today as an early pioneer of the sea story. He is now known...

Frank Mildmay Frederick Marryat, british officer and novelist (1792-1848) This ebook presents «Frank Mildmay», from Frederick Marryat. A dynamic table of contents enables to jump directly to the chapter selected. Table of Contents -01- About this book -02- Frank Mildmay  

Slave Narrative Six Pack 3 presents six more essential texts: Twenty-Two Years a Slave and Forty Years a Freeman by Austin Steward. Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Written by Herself by Harriet Jacobs. Escaping in a Chest: The Lear Green Story by William Still. Up...