Travelers & Explorers
epub |eng | 2002-02-15 | Author:Peter Mayne [Peter Mayne]

A new day. No doubt it will be hot later, but for the moment it is cool and delicious. I have been looking out of the rock crevice and am ...
( Category: Writing, Research & Publishing Guides June 14,2017 )
mobi |eng | 2011-01-27 | Author:Linda Leaming

Soon after our trip, we got a television. It was an enormous 25-inch model that Namgay bought from a woman who worked at the UN office in Thimphu. She had ...
( Category: Asia June 14,2017 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2007-07-10 | Author:Rosemary Mahoney [MAHONEY, ROSEMARY]

When I woke the next morning, Amr was sitting propped against the mast in the withering sunlight with a doleful look on his face. “Rose,” he said. “What is it, ...
( Category: Travel Writing June 14,2017 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-05-11 | Author:Lynn Schooler

Chapter 15 Boulder Hell. It was a good description. It seems like it took hours of stepping carefully from stone to stone, with the metal tips of my hiking poles ...
( Category: Biological Sciences June 14,2017 )
epub |eng | 2008-06-09 | Author:David Shalleck

I arranged the canapés in concentric circles on the silver tray we always used for cocktail service. I wanted the small, handmade savory pastries to suggest the artisanal effort by ...
( Category: Travel Writing June 14,2017 )
mobi |eng | 2013-07-30 | Author:Michael Paterniti

* Eventually I would sort out some of the names for the land, and I offer one last refresher here: The land above—what was identified as arriba by those in ...
( Category: Regional & International June 14,2017 )
epub |eng | 2012-01-10 | Author:Calvin Trillin [Trillin, Calvin]

9 British Boiled “Don’t you miss England?” Alice, the family intellectual and crypto-travel-agent, asked me one winter. “If we flew from Halifax, we’d have all the money we saved by ...
( Category: Humor June 13,2017 )
epub |eng | 2012-11-01 | Author:Bernard Diederich & Richard Greene & Pico Iyer [Diederich, Bernard & Greene, Richard & Iyer, Pico]

In response, John Scali, US Ambassador to the UN and a former television newsman, said Torrijos was ‘knocking on an open door’ and that the ‘world knows the United States ...
( Category: Travelers & Explorers June 13,2017 )
epub |eng | 2017-05-29 | Author:Mike Parker [Parker, Mike]

The controversial Absolut vodka ad, showing Mexico in its pre-1848 borders 5. THE POWER MAP So Geographers, in Afric-maps, With savage-pictures fill their gaps; And o’er unhabitable downs Place elephants ...
( Category: Travel Writing June 13,2017 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2009-10-12 | Author:Maslin, Jamie [Maslin, Jamie]

CHAPTER ELEVEN Mullah Madness “Jamie, we’re gonna have to get a taxi instead,” Leyla turned to me and said from the back of Pedram’s car as we careened through the ...
( Category: Asia June 13,2017 )
mobi |eng | 2011-02-16 | Author:Shakespeare, Nicholas & Chatwin, Bruce [Shakespeare, Nicholas]

To Sunil Sethi L.6 Albany | Piccadilly | London | 29 April 1980 Dearest S., I have always wanted to have a letter from Macao: so the crumbling green portals ...
( Category: Essays & Correspondence June 13,2017 )
epub |eng | | Author:Catie Marron

’Tis all enforced, the fountain and the grot, While the sweet fields do lie forgot THE IVEAGH GARDENS, not far from St. Stephen’s Green, are modest, not richly appointed, and ...
( Category: Essays & Correspondence June 13,2017 )
epub | | 2003-06-07 | Author:David Bennun

MY MOTHER’S attempts to have me reinstated in the Nyumba Cub Scout pack were eventually successful. She convinced Reverend Phillips that I was misguided but not incorrigible. His creed directed ...
( Category: General June 8,2017 )
epub |eng | 1995-10-31 | Author:Steinbeck, John & Astro, Richard [Astro, Richard]

“My mule was a complainer. For a while I thought he simply didn’t like me, but I believe now that he had a sour eye for the world. With every ...
( Category: Marine Biology June 8,2017 )
epub |eng | 2010-10-18 | Author:Elizabeth Gilbert [Gilbert, Elizabeth]

54 This morning, I overslept. Which is to say—sloth that I am, I dozed until the ungodly hour of 4:15 AM. I woke up only minutes before the Gurugita was ...
( Category: Women June 8,2017 )