Travelers & Explorers
epub |eng | 2009-06-15 | Author:Karen Connelly [Connelly, Karen]

CHAPTER 27 BELOVED As I haul my ass up the filthy stairs at two in the morning (the elevator is broken), I think about the blister. I reach my floor ...
( Category: Travelers & Explorers June 16,2017 )
epub |eng | | Author:Tania Aebi

8 Officials almost always became a little embarrassed to find themselves alone with me on Varuna, and those from Vanuatu customs and immigrations were no exception. I had called the ...
( Category: Travelers & Explorers June 16,2017 )
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:John M. Adams

“Ceremonial Wig Ornaments” (actually, earrings), painted by E. Harold Jones on the Beduin in 1908. From Davis, The Tomb of Siphtah: The Monkey Tomb and the Gold Tomb. Five TAWOSRET’S ...
( Category: Historical June 16,2017 )
epub |eng | 2009-03-24 | Author:Susan Jane Gilman [Gilman, Susan Jane]

——— Back at the hotel, Claire was gone. All our belongings were gone. Our room had been vacated, the beds stripped, though the door remained ajar and the lightbulbs still ...
( Category: Asia June 16,2017 )
mobi, pdf |eng | 2013-01-28 | Author:Jerry L. Ross & John Norberg

My best friend, Jim Gentleman (left), and me showing my little sister Janet our new bikes. (Phyllis Ross) Grandpa Joe and me with my dog, Prancer. (Phyllis Ross) Our family ...
( Category: Astronomy & Space Science June 16,2017 )
epub |eng | 2012-10-09 | Author:Timothy Egan [Egan, Timothy]

In the last full month of Teddy Roosevelt’s presidency, Curtis was invited to Washington for an informal sit-down with the writer-politician who had done so much for an unknown man ...
( Category: Arts & Literature June 16,2017 )
epub |eng | 2003-01-02 | Author:Colin Burgess & Kate Doolan & Bert Vis & Eugene A. Cernan [Burgess, Colin & Doolan, Kate & Vis, Bert & Cernan, Eugene A.]

Following his decision to join the air force as his career field, and after a two-month graduation leave, White went to Bartow Air Force Base in Florida to begin flight ...
( Category: Astronomy & Space Science June 16,2017 )
epub |eng | 1966-01-02 | Author:Antoine de Saint-exupery [Saint-exupery, Antoine de]

The last news we had of him was brought back to us by Abdullah who at our request had looked after Bark at Agadir. The plane reached Agadir in the ...
( Category: Arts & Literature June 15,2017 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2007-12-17 | Author:Tanya Shaffer

The days went quickly. We spent them with the children, sitting on the steps of Billy’s house when he was out, playing clapping games, braiding hair, trading Fanti and English ...
( Category: Writing, Research & Publishing Guides June 15,2017 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-06-08 | Author:Stafford, Ed [Stafford, Ed]

Writing that reminds me of what an amazing time we were to have ahead of us. The waters still had six months to go before they were at their highest ...
( Category: Travel Writing June 15,2017 )
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Geoff Dyer [Dyer, Geoff]

Bruce Chatwin doesn’t even get near to that kind of responsiveness and suggestiveness in the three hundred pages of The Songlines. ‘Have you noticed how often a writer’s letters are ...
( Category: History & Criticism June 15,2017 )
epub |eng | 2011-04-25 | Author:Miranda Kennedy [Kennedy, Miranda]

During my first years in Delhi, I rarely caught more than a glimpse of the air-conditioned, generator-supported world of the elite. Because I’d shown up in India without a foreign ...
( Category: Historical June 15,2017 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2005-03-29 | Author:Sarah Vowell [Vowell, Sarah]

One winter night in my kitchen, as I poured peppermint tea into my friend Lisa’s cup, she said that she liked my teapot. I told her that my happy yellow ...
( Category: Travel Writing June 14,2017 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2004-06-13 | Author:Randall Silvis [Silvis, Randall]

George stood for a few moments before her, catching his breath. Then he folded his arms across his chest. “Well,” he finally said, and looked at her directly. “I guess ...
( Category: Travelers & Explorers June 14,2017 )
epub |eng | 2010-12-31 | Author:Elle Andra-Warner

CHAPTER 7 The Rivalry Continues During its first 100 years of operation, the Hudson’s Bay Company had successfully operated with only seven trading posts, all strategically located at the mouths ...
( Category: Travelers & Explorers June 14,2017 )