Travelers & Explorers
epub |eng | 2015-01-01 | Author:Mary J MacLeod

TWENTY Parents and Problems My parents were coming to stay for two weeks. I had decided that it would be easier for them to take the large, once-weekly steamer to ...
( Category: Professionals & Academics September 25,2017 )
epub |eng | 2016-12-20 | Author:T. E. Lawrence [Lawrence, T. E.]

CHAPTER LX Vessels steamed up the Gulf of Akaba. Feisal landed, and with him Jaafar, his staff, and Joyce, the fairy godmother. There came the armoured cars, Goslett, Egyptian labourers ...
( Category: Military September 25,2017 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2015-05-28 | Author:Tracy Slater

• • • FOUR MONTHS LATER, we were on a sidewalk in Osaka, layered in heavy coats and hats. It was December 2006, and a wet winter wind stung our ...
( Category: Ethnic & National September 25,2017 )
epub |eng | 2010-04-02 | Author:Andrea Lankford

16 CRASH Chris Fors snatched the radio mike out of its clamp, brought it up to the soft blond hairs of his cop-style mustache, pushed the button with his thumb, ...
( Category: Nature & Ecology September 25,2017 )
epub |eng | 2001-11-20 | Author:Melinda Blanchard

The dining room at Blanchard’s over the holidays was filled with celebrities from around the globe; producers, directors, fashion icons, actors, models, politicians, and Wall Street gurus arrived daily. A ...
( Category: Travel Writing September 25,2017 )
epub |eng | | Author:Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

( Category: Arts & Literature September 25,2017 )
epub |eng | 2017-05-16 | Author:Mary V. Dearborn

Ernest may have thought that a story about a writer undone by his association with the rich was an appropriate forum in which to raise such a question, but there ...
( Category: Arts & Literature September 25,2017 )
azw3, mobi, pdf |eng | 2011-05-17 | Author:David Cordingly

9 Welcome to Nassau At 4 p.m. on 25 July 1718 the lookouts on HMS Rose sighted the eastern end of the island of New Providence. Captain Whitney had been ...
( Category: Americas September 25,2017 )
epub |eng | | Author:Castrission, James [James Castrission]

DAY 12 Bumbling along at 6.30am our paddles seemed to be getting stuck in mud. I peered down, and realised we were paddling through seaweed. This change in texture was ...
( Category: Writing, Research & Publishing Guides September 24,2017 )
epub |eng | 2015-08-26 | Author:Tim Winton

The power of place It was comically presumptuous of me, but while I was still in high school I’d begun to think of myself as a writer. At seventeen I’d ...
( Category: Travelers & Explorers September 24,2017 )
epub |eng | 2016-06-04 | Author:Lara Naughton

THIRTEEN My eyes are open all night. I stare at the ceiling. I stare at the wall. I lay in the dark feeling sick. I haven’t eaten, I can’t sleep, ...
( Category: Travelers & Explorers September 24,2017 )
epub |eng | | Author:Donald Mccaig

6 The Bonny Wee Bitch On Eye Exam Tuesday, I wore gray work pants and a flannel shirt. I had a collar for the wee bitch and a lead. I’d ...
( Category: Pets & Animal Care September 24,2017 )
epub |eng | 2016-10-20 | Author:Diana Athill

I’ve lost my precious phrase book, so we aren’t much good at sustained conversations, though I find myself surprisingly quick at understanding what they say to me, if it’s simple. ...
( Category: Travel Writing September 24,2017 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2007-09-24 | Author:Carl Crow

XII Two missionaries and two soldiers “Each cup of wine and each bite of meat is destined from aforetime.” There was something just the least bit suspicious about the enthusiasm ...
( Category: Historical September 24,2017 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2017-01-09 | Author:Heinrich Heine

7. What a beating is we already know, but nobody has yet established what love is. A few natural philosophers have maintained it’s a kind of electricity. That is possible, ...
( Category: Poetry September 22,2017 )