Travelers & Explorers
epub |eng | 2016-01-05 | Author:Laura Pedersen

is to rent a fifth-floor walk-up knowing the folks can’t make it much past the third-floor landing. And New York parents who finally got their children out of rent-controlled apartments ...
( Category: Women in History May 21,2017 )
epub |eng | 2017-04-02 | Author:Alice Herdan-Zuckmayer

At first we knew little about the functions and scope of the USDA, and our relationship to it could be described as entirely practical. It supplied us with bulletins, tested ...
( Category: German May 21,2017 )
epub |eng | | Author:David Hugh Bunnell

BOMBING RANGE WAR BONNET OF THORNS As we travel east past what Vernell calls the “Kyle city limits,” even though there are no city limits, I spot a wooden sign ...
( Category: Native American Studies May 21,2017 )
epub |eng | 2017-05-01 | Author:Geraldine DeRuiter

1. I was drunk on sangria. 2. Peeing all over the place made me feel a lot better. 3. I didn’t kill anyone. 4. I screw up a lot (see ...
( Category: Satire May 21,2017 )
epub |eng | 2016-05-20 | Author:Botting, Douglas; [Douglas Botting]

Before very long she was hooked. ‘If he had asked me to marry him,’ she told me many years later, ‘I would have felt absolute delight, then fear, then second ...
( Category: Professionals & Academics May 21,2017 )
epub |eng | 2009-05-20 | Author:Susan Duncan

AUTHOR’S NOTE I have not attempted to write a history of Pittwater. All I wanted to do was try to record a little of the beauty of the landscape and ...
( Category: Australian May 21,2017 )
epub |eng | 2017-04-07 | Author:Dan Hampton

PART THREE By day, or on a cloudless night, a pilot may drink the wine of the gods. —CHARLES LINDBERGH EIGHT CROSSING THE BRIDGE I’VE FINALLY BROKEN the spell of ...
( Category: History May 20,2017 )
epub |eng | | Author:Jill Homer

Chapter Fourteen Heart of Wyoming The first pass of the day approached 10,000 feet. A stiff blanket of last winter’s snow draped down from granite pinnacles and stretched over open ...
( Category: Travelers & Explorers May 17,2017 )
epub |eng | 2017-04-17 | Author:Jo Piazza

After a long day floating weightlessly in the Dead Sea, I arrived in Jerusalem, a welcome antidote to the previous night I’d spent in Tel Aviv, a city that reminded ...
( Category: Memoirs May 16,2017 )
epub |eng | 1492-01-01 | Author:Christopher Columbus [Columbus, Christopher]

CHAPTER 55 The Admiral discovers the island of Jamaica ON Saturday, 3 May, the Admiral decided to go from Cuba to Jamaica, not wanting to pass this island without discovering ...
( Category: United States May 7,2017 )
epub |eng | 2017-03-13 | Author:Ariel Levy

11 We separated for a while. Lucy stayed out on Shelter Island and I found an apartment in the city. Sometimes it was a relief to be on my own, ...
( Category: LGBT May 4,2017 )
epub |eng | 2017-04-30 | Author:Alexander MacDonald [MacDonald, Alexander]

Sources: Goddard, R., The Papers of Robert Goddard, vol. 1 (New York, 1970); see text of chapter 3 for specific source references. PWC-ratio equivalent value and GDP-ratio equivalent value calculations ...
( Category: Astronautics & Space Flight May 3,2017 )
epub |eng | 2017-04-10 | Author:Dr. James Maskalyk

L is for love. I’m walking to Black Lion. The morning sun is bright, but not yet hot. I pick my way along busted concrete piles, grey dust covers my ...
( Category: Medicine April 25,2017 )
epub |eng | 2002-04-19 | Author:Sarah Macdonald

Jonathan and I awake to the smell of smouldering bonfires, the sounds of screams and the telephone. Simi and Vivek are calling to invite us around. ‘Wear something old and ...
( Category: Travel April 20,2017 )
mobi, azw3 |eng | 2017-03-07 | Author:Michael Finkel

To Knight, it all felt impossible. His engagement with the written word might have been the closest he could come to genuine human encounters. The stretch of days between thieving ...
( Category: New England April 5,2017 )