Lives & memoirs
5 worksBiographies, memoirs and personal accounts of lives and times.
Having entered the British Navy at the age of twelve, Horatio Lord Nelson achieved the rank of captain at the age of twenty. As captain, he was quickly recognized as a magnetic and controversial figure.
On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History, is a collection of six essays by Thomas Carlyle, published in 1841, based on a series of lectures he delivered in 1840.
Blood's lecture on Napoleon, printed privately at Amsterdam, New York, in 1863, in the middle of the Civil War: a rhapsodic life of “the Soldier of Destiny” from Corsica to St.
Specimen Days first appeared in 1882 within a volume entitled Specimen Days & Collect, published by Rees Welsh and Company in Philadelphia.
Browne's account of the twelve months he spent in Persia in 1887–8, travelling from Tabríz to Ṭeherán, Iṣfahán, Shíráz, Yezd and Kirmán.