Biography Books

Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini

Benvenuto Cellini

The Life of himself which Cellini wrote was due to other motives than those which produced its chief competitors for first place in its class. St. Augustines aim was religious and didactic, Pepys note..

Autobiography of Black Hawk

Black Hawk

This story is told in the words of a tragic figure in American history - a hook-nosed, hollow-cheeked old Sauk warrior who lived under four flags while the Mississippi Valley was being wrested from hi..

Autobiography of Sir George Biddell Airy

George Biddell Airy

Sir George Biddell Airy KCB PRS was an English mathematician and astronomer, Astronomer Royal from 1835 to 1881. His many achievements include work on planetary orbits, measuring the mean density of t..

The Autobiography of Mark Rutherford - Dissenting Minister

William Hale White

The Autobiography of Mark Rutherford: Dissenting Minister by William Hale White...

The Life of Sir Richard Burton

Thomas Wright

Sir Richard Francis Burton KCMG FRGS was a British explorer, geographer, translator, writer, soldier, orientalist, cartographer, ethnologist, spy, linguist, poet, fencer, and diplomat. He was famed fo..

Autobiography of Friedrich Froebel

Friedrich Froebel

It will be long before we have a biography of Froebel to compare with DeGuimp's Pestalozzi, of which an English translation has just appeared. Meantime we must content ourselves with two long autobiog..

Baron d'Holbach

Max Pearson Cushing

Every century has its own spirit that characterizes it. The spirit of ours seems to be that of freedom. The first attack on superstition was violent, without measure. Once men have dared in any way to..

Biographies of Distinguished Scientific Men

Francois Arago

The present volume of the series of English translations of M. Arago's works consists of his own autobiography and a selection of some of his memoirs of eminent scientific men, both continental and Br..