Travelers & Explorers
epub |eng | | Author:John Popper

19 INTIMACY WITH STRANGERS IN THE DARK I think it’s important for songs to be autobiographical—you need to write about what you know. Charlie Parker said if you don’t live ...
( Category: Arts & Literature August 23,2017 )
epub |eng | 2016-06-14 | Author:Melanie Bowden Simón

( Category: Arts & Literature August 22,2017 )
epub |eng | | Author:Rob Cowen

THE TURNING TIME It was just after dawn when I broke into Bachelor Gardens Sewage Works. To my surprise, no alarms rang. There were no security guards, no flashing lights ...
( Category: Memoirs August 22,2017 )
epub |eng | 2016-05-24 | Author:Helene Hanff

Friday, July 2 I saw Trinity College and walked the Yard John Donne walked; I saw Oriel and sat in John Henry’s chapel. And what I went through to see ...
( Category: Travelers & Explorers August 22,2017 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2013-07-08 | Author:Vollmann, William T. [Vollmann, William T.]

8 “… DESCRIBED FORMALLY AS REFUGEE CAMPS …”: CORRUPTION (1982) AFGHAN WOMAN: You are a tourist? YOUNG MAN: NO, a fund-raiser. AFGHAN WOMAN: You raise lots of money, or only ...
( Category: Asia August 22,2017 )
epub, azw3 |eng | 2015-03-17 | Author:Bonner Paddock & Neal Bascomb [Paddock, Bonner]

9 Swim. Bike. Run. The Oakley headquarters looked like a cross between a spaceship and a medieval fortress. Passing through its cathedral-sized steel entrance was both inspiring and intimidating. At ...
( Category: Travelers & Explorers August 22,2017 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2013-02-05 | Author:W. G. Sebald

the waiter in the green apron had just made his last rounds, when I imagined I heard a horse's hooves on the cobbled square and the sound of carriage wheels; ...
( Category: Literary August 22,2017 )
epub |eng | 2000-01-01 | Author:Adam Gopnik [Gopnik, Adam]

( Category: Memoirs August 22,2017 )
mobi, azw, epub |eng | 2014-12-11 | Author:Paul Hartford

CHAPTER 12 THE HANGOVER One good thing about a restaurant being run by a bunch of penny-pinching schmucks who won’t pay overtime is that you can always count on getting ...
( Category: Arts & Literature August 22,2017 )
epub |eng | 2017-03-20 | Author:Jules Mountain [Mountain, Jules]

The day after The sound of helicopters filled my head. I opened my eyes, adjusting slowly to the yellow-coloured gloom. For half a second – half a glorious second – ...
( Category: Travelers & Explorers August 22,2017 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-04-27 | Author:The Last of the Plainsmen

Chapter 10 - Success and Failure * At last the marvel in the north dimmed, the obscure gray shade lifted, the hope in the south brightened, and the mercury climbed ...
( Category: Genre Fiction August 21,2017 )
mobi |eng | 2007-07-05 | Author:De Monfreid, Henry

TWENTY-THREE The Hiding-Place At dawn the white lights of Suez faded before the golden glory of the sun, and the town suddenly appeared out of the desert in dazzling clearness. ...
( Category: Travel Writing August 21,2017 )
epub |eng | 2000-09-08 | Author:Dana Sachs [Sachs, Dana]

9. Private Rooms TUNG AND HUONG HAD SPENT that Thursday night trying to stay calm. Sitting on the bed in their loft, he insisted that an empty room did not ...
( Category: Asia August 21,2017 )
mobi, epub |eng | 1943-09-19 | Author:Erle Stanley Gardner

Chapter 16 DELLA STREET spread the afternoon newspaper on Mason’s desk. “Look at our friend, Paul Drake,” she said. Mason regarded the picture with an approving eye—a photograph of Paul ...
( Category: Thrillers & Suspense August 21,2017 )
epub |eng | 2012-03-06 | Author:Mark Sundeen [Sundeen, Mark]

9 . . . My lover thrust his hand through the latch-opening; my heart began to pound for him. I arose to open for my lover, and my hands dripped ...
( Category: Philosophy August 20,2017 )