Travelers & Explorers
epub |eng | | Author:Edith Wharton

* * * VI THE SAADIAN TOMBS On one of the last days of our stay in Marrakech we were told, almost mysteriously, that permission was to be given us ...
( Category: Travel January 21,2016 )
mobi |eng | 1996-01-02 | Author:Simon Winchester

Mao Zedong was a very considerable poet – in output, if not always in quality – and he was prone to memorialize what he regarded as his greater achievements with ...
( Category: General January 13,2016 )
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2006-01-14 | Author:Bill Bryson

INTERESTINGLY, at just about the time I acquired my television I realized that I didn’t really like TV very much—or, to put it more accurately, didn’t much like what was ...
( Category: State & Local January 13,2016 )
epub |eng | 2015-06-13 | Author:Gabriel Schirm [Schirm, Gabriel]

Achilles Tendinitis Trail Days 16—17 Dark clouds and steady rain greet us as we again find ourselves walking on old Roman roads at five o’clock in the morning. Our usual ...
( Category: General January 13,2016 )
epub, mobi, azw3 |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Lawrence Durrell [Durrell, Lawrence]

Bernard Spencer 1964 BERNARD SPENCER’S[1] SUDDEN DEATH recently snapped a link which was first forged in 1938 when he arrived in Greece to work for the British Council in Salonika. ...
( Category: General January 12,2016 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2016-01-06 | Author:Ronald Russell

CHAPTER 7 * * * Far Journeys Throughout the years of inquiry, investigation, and experiment at Whistlefield, Monroe's own out-of-body experiences continued quite regularly. However, he began to feel a ...
( Category: Out-of-Body Experiences January 9,2016 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2014-05-26 | Author:London, Jack [London, Jack]

CHAPTER XIX When I was with people who did not drink, I never thought of drinking. Louis did not drink. Neither he nor I could afford it; but, more significant ...
( Category: Authors January 9,2016 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2014-05-19 | Author:London, Jack [London, Jack]

"_Jong–Keena, Jong–Keena, Jong–Jong, Keena–Keena, Yo–ko–ham–a, Nag–a–sak–i, Kobe–mar–o—hoy!!!_" This time, with the hoy, her hands were closed and his were open. "Forfeit!—forfeit!" the girls cried. She looked her costume over with ...
( Category: History & Criticism January 8,2016 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2014-05-30 | Author:London, Jack [London, Jack]

CHAPTER XI The Nature Man I FIRST met him on Market Street in San Francisco. It was a wet and drizzly afternoon, and he was striding along, clad solely in ...
( Category: Classics January 8,2016 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-08-02 | Author:Percy Fitzpatrick

* * * Chapter Sixteen. The Tiger and Baboons. No one had doubted Jess’s courage, even when we saw her come back alone: we knew there was something wrong, but ...
( Category: General January 8,2016 )
epub |eng | 2014-04-21 | Author:Ed Webster [Webster, Ed]

Now there was no choice: the support team had to leave for home tomorrow without reaching Base Camp, or for that matter, without even seeing the Kangshung Face. They were ...
( Category: General January 5,2016 )
epub |eng | 2011-01-03 | Author:Dervla Murphy [Dervla Murphy]

Skardu – 23 January When I woke last night to use our ‘commode’ (that same bucket in which water is fetched during the day: of such unsavoury details is domestic ...
( Category: Travel January 4,2016 )
epub |eng | | Author:Jennifer Niven

* * * McMinnville, Oreg. Aug. 8, 1923 Mr. H. Galle Newbraunfels, Texas.; Dear Sir; You will note that the boys are supposed to be alive and I feel that ...
( Category: Native American & Aboriginal December 21,2015 )
epub |eng | 2015-09-22 | Author:Sooyong Park

CHAPTER 17 By the Skin of Tiger Teeth BLOODY MARY HAD not left. The footsteps moved away and suddenly stopped. She lay quietly hidden somewhere, spying on me. She would ...
( Category: Cats, Lions & Tigers December 16,2015 )
epub |eng | 2015-04-09 | Author:Matt Lewis

14 15:55 SATURDAY, 6 JUNE 1998 Where were the officers of the Sudur Havid as we were abandoning? I thought someone would yell orders, co-ordinate a safe evacuation, act as ...
( Category: Travelers & Explorers December 14,2015 )