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#1

Ten Miles High, Two Miles Deep

1957 • 1 Reader • 127 pages • 4

#1

The Stolen Woman: Florence Baker's Extraordinary Life from the Harem to the Heart of Africa

2004 • 428 pages

#1

Sean Fitzpatrick:Turning Point

ByDuncan Johnstone

1998 • 1 Reader • 223 pages • 3

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2002 • 1 Reader • 176 pages • 3

#1

Under the Osakan Sun

ByHamish Beaton

2008 • 1 Reader • 314 pages

#1

The Dragon Empress: Life and Times of Tz'u-hsi, 1835-1908, Empress Dowager of China

ByMarina Warner

1972 • 1 Reader • 271 pages

#1

Rabaul in the 1920s - A Childs Eye

ByDerek Westoby O'Dean

2002 • 1 Reader • 20 pages • 4

#1

Forever Wandering

ByEllen Roberts

1960 • 1 Reader • 168 pages • 4

#1

The Road To Wigan Pier

ByGeorge Orwell

1936 • 97 Readers • 241 pages • 3.7

#1

An African Dream

ByErnesto Che Guevara

1994 • 1 Reader • 314 pages • 2

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#1 of 3 in Unreliable Memoirs

Always Unreliable

1980 • 5 Readers • 537 pages

#1

Homage to Catalonia

ByGeorge Orwell

1938 • 214 Readers • 196 pages • 4.2

#1

Joseph Dalton Hooker. Botanist, Explorer and Administrator

1 Reader • 228 pages

#1

Edmund Hillary - A Biography

2017 • 1 Reader • 532 pages

#1

Michel the Giant: An African in Greenland

ByTété-Michel Kpomassie

1981 • 5 Readers • 320 pages • 4

#1

Tales of the Alhambra

ByWashington Irving

1832 • 11 Readers • 310 pages • 3.6

#1

Occupational Hazards

2009 • 464 pages

#1

ByJohn Stannage

1944 • 1 Reader • 195 pages • 4

#1

Cloud Farm: High on Banks Peninsula

ByJane Chetwynd

2004 • 1 Reader • 182 pages • 4

#1

A Single Tear: A Family's Persecution, Suffering, Love and Endurance in Communist China

ByWu Ningkun~Li Yikai

1993 • 1 Reader • 367 pages

#1

Stories of the Sahara

BySanmao,Mike Fu(Translator)

1976 • 11 Readers • 416 pages • 4.5

#1

#3 of 3 in Unreliable Memoirs

May Week Was in June

1990 • 1 Reader • 245 pages • 3

#1

At the Hemingways: A Family Portrait

ByMarcelline Hemingway Sanford

1962 • 1 Reader • 244 pages

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#2 of 3 in Unreliable Memoirs

Falling Towards England

1985 • 2 Readers • 176 pages • 4

#1

The Shadow of the Sun: My African Life

ByRyszard Kapuściński,Klara Glowczewska(Translator)

1998 • 324 pages

#1

ByVladimir Nabokov

1996 • 1 Reader • 58 pages • 3

#1

Pilgrims of the Wild

1934 • 1 Reader • 282 pages

#1

Willie Apiata VC: The Reluctant Hero

2008 • 1 Reader • 255 pages • 3

#1

The History of Mary Prince: A West Indian Slave

1831 • 1 Reader • 158 pages • 3

#1

8 Little People, BIG DREAMS

ByMª Isabel Sánchez Vegara

2021 • 1 Reader • 32 pages

#1

The Storyteller: Tales of Life and Music

ByDave Grohl(Author/Narrator)

2021 • 38 Readers • 4.3

#1

In the Name of Honour - A Memoir

2006 • 1 Reader • 172 pages • 3

#1

Philby: KGB Master Spy

ByPhillip Knightley

1988 • 1 Reader • 320 pages • 3

#1

90-Day Geisha: My Time as a Tokyo Hostess

ByChelsea Haywood

2007 • 1 Reader • 308 pages • 3

#1

#2 of 3 in The Autobiographical Trilogy

As I walked out one midsummer morning

1969 • 18 Readers • 204 pages • 4.1

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ByJudith H. McQuown

1969 • 1 Reader • 308 pages

#1

The Life of My Choice

ByWilfred Thesiger

1987 • 2 Readers • 464 pages • 4

#1

Kieran Read - Straight 8

ByKieran Read,Scotty Stevenson

1 Reader • 288 pages

#1

1962 • 1 Reader • 196 pages • 4

#1

8 Little People, BIG DREAMS

Queen Elizabeth

ByMaria Isabel Sanchez Vegara

2022 • 1 Reader • 32 pages

#1

Lives of Three Renaissance Artists

ByGiorgio Vasari,George Bull(translator)

1550 • 1 Reader • 64 pages

#1

Vida Clandestina: My Life in the Cuban Revolution

ByEnrique Oltuski

2002 • 1 Reader • 304 pages

#1

Ship Thieves: The True Tale of James Porter, Colonial Pirate.

2005 • 1 Reader • 231 pages

#1

In The Footsteps Of Adam

ByThor Heyerdahl

1998 • 1 Reader • 346 pages

#1

Memoirs of an Arabian princess from Zanzibar: An autobiography

1886 • 1 Reader • 210 pages • 4

#1

Under the Tuscan Sun: At Home in Italy

ByFrances Mayes

1996 • 1 Reader • 356 pages • 3

#1

Ion Idriess - The last Interview

2020 • 1 Reader • 123 pages

#1

The Orange Trees of Baghdad - In Search of a Vanishing Life: A Memoir

2007 • 1 Reader • 328 pages

#1

Midnight Express

ByWilliam Hoffer

1977 • 7 Readers • 238 pages • 3.5

#1

The Epic of Mount Everest: The Historic Account of Mallory's Expeditions

ByFrancis Younghusband,Patrick French

1926 • 1 Reader • 254 pages

#1

The road to Castle Hill: a high country love story

ByLouise FERNYHOUGH, Christine & CALLAN

2007 • 335 pages

#1

Falling Leaves: The Memoir of an Unwanted Chinese Daughter

ByAdeline Yen Mah

1999 • 27 Readers • 301 pages • 3.3

#1

Off the Beaten Track: Three Centuries of Women Travellers

2004 • 1 Reader • 144 pages • 4

#1

The Tomb of Tutankhamen

ByHoward Carter

1954 • 1 Reader • 347 pages

#1

The Riddle and the Knight: In search of Sir John Mandeville

1996 • 1 Reader • 291 pages • 3

#1

Seven Years in Tibet

ByHeinrich Harrer

1953 • 64 Readers • 329 pages • 4.2

#1

The Light Garden of the Angel King: Travels in Afghanistan with Bruce Chatwin

1972 • 1 Reader • 231 pages • 3

#1

Trust : A true story of women & gangs

2009 • 1 Reader • 320 pages

#1

ByErnesto Che Guevara

1968 • 1 Reader • 183 pages • 3

#1

The Call of the Weird: Travels in American Subcultures

ByLouis Theroux

2005 • 3 Readers • 290 pages • 4

#1

Travels with a donkey

ByRobert Louis Stevenson

1879 • 4 Readers • 176 pages • 3

#1

Touching the Void: The Harrowing First-Person Account of One Man's Miraculous Survival

1988 • 4 Readers • 172 pages • 5

#1

The Alice behind wonderland

BySimon Winchester

2011 • 1 Reader • 110 pages

#1

ByJames S. Hirsch

2000 • 1 Reader • 390 pages • 5

#1

An Englishwoman in India: The Memoirs of Harriet Tytler 1828-1858

ByHarriet Tytler

1986 • 1 Reader • 229 pages

#1

BySebastian Junger

2010 • 22 Readers • 304 pages • 4.2

#1

#1 of 2 in Empress Orchid

2003 • 34 Readers • 336 pages • 3.7

#1

The Original Anna and The King of Siam

ByAnna Harriette Leonowens

1870 • 1 Reader • 321 pages

#1

Foreign Babes in Beijing: Behind the Scenes of a New China

ByRachel DeWoskin

2005 • 2 Readers • 340 pages • 3

#1

Every Man In This Village Is A Liar

ByMegan K. Stack

2010 • 1 Reader • 273 pages • 3

#1

The Flying Carpet to Baghdad: One Woman's Fight for Two Orphans of War

2009 • 1 Reader • 308 pages

#1

Kiwi Compañeros: New Zealand and the Spanish Civil War

ByMark Derby(Editor)

2009 • 1 Reader • 264 pages • 4

#1

Mukiwa : A White Boy in Africa

1996 • 1 Reader • 417 pages • 5