Journal of a Residence Among the Negroes of the West Indies

On March 31, 1854, Commodore Matthew Perry signed the Treaty of Kanagawa on behalf of the United ...

First published in 1913, Covent Garden is an 'historical and topographical account of one of the ...

Wanderings in Patagonia is an account of Julius Beerbohm's expedition to Patagonia in 1877. He vi...

First published in 1836, 'Wood Leighton' is as much an evocative and vivid novel by a poet of the...

'The Rise of Silas Lapham' is Howell's best-known work, and this elegant tale of Boston society a...

George III was born in 1738, and came to the throne in 1760, marrying his wife Charlotte in 1761 ...

Finding himself on the German Russian border on the eve of the First World War, John Morse effect...

Although better known for her letters to men of standing such as Samuel Johnson, Hester Lynch Pio...

In 1910, the revered maritime strategist Sir Julian Stafford Corbett published' The Campaign of T...

For three years, Auguste Guinnard was a captive and slave of the native Indians in Patagonia. His...

A narrative of Captain Scott''s expedition to the Antarctic. This book provides a record of vario...

Largely written while the author was being held as a hostage by the Afghan leader Mahomed Akber K...

When Reverend Josiah Crawley, the impoverished curate of Hogglestock, is accused of theft it caus...

'Diary of an Invalid' is a vivid account of the author's travels through Portugal, Italy, Switzer...

The world of Sir John Mandeville was bounded by fantasy, superstition, and dread. For most Europe...

The Baghdad Air Mail is the personal narrative of Wing Commander Roderic Hill's time flying the A...

Offers a humorous account of American life and customs in the 19th century.

Written by the prolific Victorian author Catherine Gore, best known for her novels about high soc...

Sir John Franklin and the Arctic Regions

'The Comedy of Human Life (La Comedie Humaine)' is the collective title given to a series of link...

The last of the 'Chronicles of Carlingford', a series of closely-observed and comic narratives of...

A pictorial history of Winslow, presented through a series of photographs and images. It also inc...

A drug addict and debaucher of women, Thomas Lyttelton, 2nd Baron Lyttelton, 'indulged in all the...

Two novels based largely the author's personal experiences at sea

This delightful and irreverent tale of romance in Victorian England follows the exploits of two g...

Before Sunday

'Handy Andy' is the most enduringly popular of the novels of Samuel Lover, author, artist, and mu...

The Barsetshire Novels, are as a group one of the great works of the 19th -century English fictio...

Presents a collection of the first 24 stories of 'Caravan', composed between the years 1900 and 1...

There were four of us - George, William Samuel Harris, and myself, and Montmorency.' So begins th...

This novel depicts the injustice and cruelty that was so prevalent on English soil

In August 1808, Sir Richard D. Henegan landed in Portugal as part of the British army sent to sto...

Cooper's first major success, 'The Spy 'is also his first book set in the period of the American ...

Sam Slick first appeared in a series of sketches in the 'NovaScotian 'during 1835 and 1836 and pr...

Louis-Antoine Comte de Bougainville is best known for his circumnavigation of the globe from 1766...

From matchmaking to speed-dating, strawboys to gatecrashers, and jaunting carts to limousines, th...

On June 23, 1812, with virtually all of Europe under his control, Napoleon Bonaparte and his Gran...

Robert Smith Surtees has long been considered to be one of the great comic chroniclers of the foi...

Silas Rutvyn is something of a riddle. To some, including his niece, he is something of a ghost. ...

Written in 1845, this satire follows the lovable cockney grocer Jorrocks, and takes a stab at the...

Sir William Hamilton

'Of course there was a Great House at Allington. How otherwise should there have been a small hou...

How's it Goin' Boy?

A sharply written tale of adventure on the seas, 'The Phantom Ship' will grip the reader from the...

Illustrated by the author, whose reputation for portraiture has almost exceeded his fame as a wri...

First written in 1920, C.R. Fay's 'Life and Labour in the Nineteenth Century' provides an interes...

Seven Years Campaigning