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To Timbuktu for a Haircut by Rick Antonson
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-12-31 | Author:Rick Antonson

René-August Caillié, the French explorer, has been called “one of the oddest figures in the history of travel.” He arrived in Timbuktu in 1828, disguised as an Arab, and became ...
( Category: General April 12,2016 )
Hemingway's Paris by Robert Wheeler
epub |eng | 2014-12-31 | Author:Robert Wheeler

North view from Hemingway’s room Fontaine Saint-Michel Pont Alexandre III III Influence Ernest Hemingway was surrounded with colleagues and good friends during his time in Paris. He was a part ...
( Category: General April 11,2016 )
Hiking Through by Paul Stutzman
epub |eng | | Author:Paul Stutzman

The morning light glowed softly as it fell on the mountain and returned to the valley after its overnight journey. We had only eleven miles to Rockfish Gap, almost all ...
( Category: Travel April 11,2016 )
Saving the White Lions by Linda Tucker
epub |eng | 2013-05-06 | Author:Linda Tucker [Tucker, Linda]

MIREILLE, JASON, AND I stand on the runway of Lanseria private airport, under the tilted metal hull of a DC3 troop carrier. Mireille is hanging tightly onto my hand. The ...
( Category: Cats, Lions & Tigers April 8,2016 )
The Wisdom of Tuscany: Simplicity, Security & the Good Life by Ferenc Máté
epub |eng | 2009-11-16 | Author:Ferenc Máté [Máté, Ferenc]

11 ~ THE TUSCAN FOOD GARDEN To forget to dig the earth and tend the soil is to forget ourselves. —Mahatma Gandhi The Tuscan family, in all its complexity and ...
( Category: Travel April 8,2016 )
A Long Way Home by Saroo Brierley
epub |eng | 2014-06-11 | Author:Saroo Brierley

8. Resuming the Search By now, I should have been used to life’s many unexpected twists and turns. But things still manage to take me completely by surprise, and though ...
( Category: Australian April 8,2016 )
Tomb in Seville by Norman Lewis
epub |eng | 2013-06-22 | Author:Norman Lewis [Lewis, Norman]

CHAPTER 9 THE COUNTRY WALK RECOMMENDED at the hospital had to be put off for a few days, for despite what was generally accepted as the collapse of the revolt, ...
( Category: Travel April 6,2016 )
Mud, Sweat & Gears by Ellie Bennett
epub |eng | 2011-02-08 | Author:Ellie Bennett

At Carsphairn we took a break and had a look around the village churchyard. There was a memorial there to the McAdam family and a tablet commemorating John Louden McAdam, ...
( Category: Cycling April 5,2016 )
To Reach the Clouds by Philippe Petit
epub |eng | 2011-06-30 | Author:Philippe Petit

So here I am, just days before the walk, often till two in the morning, attempting to make sense of the elements upon which my life depends. Who believes that? ...
( Category: State & Local March 26,2016 )
The Ghosts of Happy Valley by Juliet Barnes
epub |eng | | Author:Juliet Barnes [Barnes, Juliet]

18 Murder Beneath the Mountain Looking back to my first trip with Solomon to Clouds, I realised how much my quest had changed and expanded. Inevitably, perhaps, I’d initially become ...
( Category: Authors March 14,2016 )
No Baggage by Clara Bensen
epub |eng | | Author:Clara Bensen

CHAPTER 9 | Know Thyself “Would y’all point us in the direction of the Eiffel Tower?” said Jeff. He said it with a deadpan southern twang, like he had a ...
( Category: Travelers & Explorers March 14,2016 )
Cobra in the Bath by Miles Morland
epub |eng | 2015-03-13 | Author:Miles Morland

*Kuhn, Loeb and J. P. Morgan were once the two dominant firms on Wall Street. In the first half of the twentieth century KL had transformed America. Two partners, Otto ...
( Category: Travel March 14,2016 )
The Lure of the Honey Bird by Elizabeth Laird
epub |eng | | Author:Elizabeth Laird [Laird, Elizabeth]

The Wolayita region, which stretches east from Sidama, is one of the most thickly populated parts of the country, and overpopulation, along with the vagaries of an uncertain rainfall, has ...
( Category: Travel March 14,2016 )
Stanley - The Impossible Life of Africa's Greatest Explorer by Tim Jeal
epub |eng | 2008-09-30 | Author:Tim Jeal [Jeal, Tim]

King Leopold II of Belgium Stanley first met the king in Brussels on 10 June 1878, having been brought from the railway station in central Brussels to his palace at ...
( Category: Journalists March 13,2016 )
The Young T. E. Lawrence by Anthony Sattin
epub, azw3, mobi |eng | 2015-01-26 | Author:Anthony Sattin [Sattin, Anthony]

* Thompson stayed in Surrey for the next two years, excavated in Egypt in 1913 and fought in Mesopotamia in World War I. † Woolley’s reputation today rests on his ...
( Category: World War I March 7,2016 )

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