Travelers & Explorers
epub |eng | 2007-03-17 | Author:Bruce Bradley [Bradley, Bruce]

CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR ST. LOUIS--MARCH, 1820 WEST OF THE Missouri, things were beginning to warm up. That's what everyone said, anyway. Within the next ten years, settlements would sprout up in ...
( Category: Historical August 26,2017 )
epub, azw3 |eng | 2013-08-26 | Author:Paul Morand [Paul Morand]

Serge Lifar at the exhibition celebrating twenty years of the Ballets Russes at the Pavilion de Marsan, 1939 1929 AT THE SLUICE-GATES of Venetian houses you reveal all about yourself ...
( Category: Memoirs August 26,2017 )
epub |eng | 2017-03-13 | Author:Randy Denmon

We Ain’t in Orange County I’d been to San Salvador once, seven or eight years before. It’s rumored to have the best nightlife in Central America so I hoped we ...
( Category: Central America August 25,2017 )
epub |eng | 2012-05-09 | Author:Derek J. Taylor

'There aren't many jobs around for professional archaeologists,' he explains. 'I'm just temping for the research company.' But will he know a second century Roman baptismal font when he sees ...
( Category: Travel Writing August 25,2017 )
epub |eng | 2017-06-13 | Author:Madeleine Blais

Chapter Seven Operating Instructions We never rented the house formally, but we often gave away time in it to family friends and even virtual strangers. One summer one of John’s ...
( Category: Americas August 25,2017 )
epub |eng | 2017-06-27 | Author:Morten Stroksnes

Winter 21 It’s early March the next time I travel north, enticed as usual by the sea’s old promises of adventure and the hunt for a shark you can only ...
( Category: Industries August 25,2017 )
epub |eng | 2007-06-12 | Author:Anthony Doerr [Doerr, Anthony]

It rains, the sun comes out. Five minutes later, hail is bouncing off the street. This morning the Alban Hills were slate blue and velvety. At noon they were shining ...
( Category: Travel Writing August 25,2017 )
mobi |eng | | Author:Radziwill, Catherine, Princess, 1858-1941 [Radziwill, Catherine, Princess, 1858-1941]

The request made by Rhodes to keep these documents produced a very bad impression on those who had begun to entertain hopes that he might be induced to throw the ...
( Category: Travelers & Explorers August 25,2017 )
epub |eng | 2017-04-17 | Author:Oren Liebermann

Cassie and I stand before the famous Treasury in Petra, Jordan. I had just started feeling the symptoms of diabetes, but I wouldn’t know what they meant for nearly two ...
( Category: Travel Writing August 25,2017 )
epub |eng | | Author:Michael Haag

Gerry with a stuffed barn owl standing by a cage of his Corfu ‘zoo’. Larry, who was ‘talking glibly’ and not looking at what he was doing, withdrew a match ...
( Category: Arts & Literature August 25,2017 )
epub, azw3 |eng | 2015-07-19 | Author:Sergio Pitol

11 Pitol mistakenly attributes the opera to Donizetti in the Spanish text.—Trans. 25 MAY I left Prague with a bit of a cold. When I wake up, the first thing ...
( Category: Travelers & Explorers August 25,2017 )
epub |eng | 2017-05-01 | Author:Rick Bailey [Bailey, Rick]

21 Chemical Neutral “What you do,” the tree man says, “is get some Great Stuff. Fill the tree up with it to keep the water out of it.” We’re standing ...
( Category: Essays & Correspondence August 25,2017 )
epub |eng | 2015-08-27 | Author:Bill Roorbach

FLASH FORWARD TO THE SPRING OF 2000. ONE EARLY APRIL morning, sleepless with her pregnancy, Juliet woke me, said: “We have to leave Ohio.” “Yes,” I said. “Promise me,” she ...
( Category: Rivers August 25,2017 )
epub |eng | | Author:Bill Roorbach

My gorgeous niece Kristen when she was four (a long, long time ago, but quick, seventeen years), always asked if she could see what I had under any Band-Aids. She ...
( Category: Essays & Correspondence August 25,2017 )
epub |eng | | Author:Britt Collins

Chapter 16 Yosemite: Walk on the Wild Side In late April, Stinson, Michael and Tabor’s old pal from Portland, arrived in Ventura to pick them up to go back to ...
( Category: Cats August 25,2017 )