Travelers & Explorers
epub |eng | 2013-08-21 | Author:Tom Ryan [Ryan, Tom]

13 The Spell of Agiocochook My father always had a difficult time being happy. He was witty and charming in public, with the cashiers at the local pharmacy or supermarket, ...
( Category: Dogs May 27,2016 )
epub |eng | 2016-04-04 | Author:Buzz Aldrin [Aldrin, Buzz]

I’VE ALWAYS BEEN SMART. God blessed me with a good mind and the ability to understand certain things that others have trouble comprehending. But there is a big difference between ...
( Category: Scientists May 26,2016 )
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Rawlence, Ben; [ Rawlence, Ben]

15 The intelligence director’s bath Railway carriages rust in Kalemie IT IS STILL DARK. The Moba is waiting to dock at Kalemie, once the east’s major port, the end of ...
( Category: General May 26,2016 )
epub |eng | 1970-05-25 | Author:ALLEN GINSBERG

Rickshaw home & bus to Railroad at 7:30 — after reading Kabir aloud in cell for an hour — for ticket day after tomorrow nite sleeper 3rd class for Calcutta ...
( Category: Authors May 26,2016 )
epub |eng | 2012-12-31 | Author:Gordon Stainforth

About an hour later We’ve now climbed three shortish pitches from the bivvy boulder, varying in length between about seventy and a hundred feet. We’ve been climbing like complete automatons, ...
( Category: General May 24,2016 )
epub |eng | 2013-05-14 | Author:Maria Coletta McLean

On Thursday mornings there was a huge outdoor market in Frosinone, about half an hour away. Kathryn particularly liked the shoe vendors who arranged their shoes in towers by price ...
( Category: Travel May 15,2016 )
epub |eng | 2014-12-31 | Author:Dan Eatherley

Raymond Ditmars extracts venom from a cottonmouth pitviper (Agkistrodon piscivorus), c. 1935. “It’s part of my job,” he once said. (© Wildlife Conservation Society) ONE Sunday afternoon in July 1893 ...
( Category: Reptiles & Amphibians May 11,2016 )
epub, azw |eng | 2015-03-31 | Author:Heather Lende

Put on a Costume Now and Then You’d think as a mother of five I would have gotten the hang of creating costumes for Halloween. I never did, but I ...
( Category: Pacific May 1,2016 )
epub |eng | 2013-05-13 | Author:Lee Stetson

Excerpted from The Mountains of California. New York: The Century Co., 1894. A Perilous Night on Mount Shasta In 1875, after only a half dozen years of mountaineering, Muir’s confidence ...
( Category: Pacific April 26,2016 )
epub |eng | 2015-09-14 | Author:Steven Rinella

I WAS STANDING UP TO MY WAIST in the swampy muck of Lake Dubonnet, about ten miles outside of Traverse City, Michigan. The lake is, by anyone’s definition, a swamp. ...
( Category: Game April 22,2016 )
mobi |eng | 2013-04-29 | Author:Gerald Durrell

Chapter 12 The Woodcock Winter As the summer drew to a close I found myself, to my delight, once more without a tutor. Mother had discovered that, as she so ...
( Category: Wildlife April 21,2016 )
epub |eng | 2010-04-16 | Author:Ken McAdams

TWENTY DOWN A ROAD LESS TRAVELED THE STATUE of Liberty, designed by the Frenchman Frédéric-Auguste Bartholdi, was dedicated to the homeless huddled masses yearning to be free. It didn’t escape ...
( Category: General April 17,2016 )
mobi |eng | 2012-10-15 | Author:Carol Shaben

At 8:30 that morning, Canadian Forces Base Edmonton, expecting a break in the weather, dispatched a Twin Otter to try and get under the clouds. Just a minute later, its ...
( Category: History April 14,2016 )
epub |eng | 2013-03-31 | Author:Pete Jordan

12 Give My Father’s Bike Back: The Occupation’s Legacy During the final days of the war in Europe, Hitler—the “chief robber,” as one Dutchman who’d lost his bike to German ...
( Category: Cycling April 14,2016 )
mobi |eng | 2015-06-15 | Author:Tracy Slater

TEN I WOKE THE NEXT MORNING achy and low. Toru had gotten up earlier, and now he came to the side of our narrow bed and knelt. He stroked my ...
( Category: General April 13,2016 )