Travelers & Explorers
epub, mobi |eng | 1905-12-31 | Author:Rudyard Kipling [Kipling, Rudyard]

A British-Roman Song (A.D. 406) My father’s father saw it not, And I, belike, shall never come To look on that so-holy spot— The very Rome— Crowned by all Time, ...
( Category: British & Irish October 28,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2013-03-10 | Author:Richard Holmes

Of her soft hair, which bent with gathered weight My neck near hers, her dark and deepening eyes, Which, as twin phantoms of one star that lies O’er a dim ...
( Category: Romance October 16,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2013-03-25 | Author:Donald Richie

Tamasaburo Bando He impersonates that male invention, feminity, and does it so well that only those seams which he wants to show are allowed to be visible. A man imitating ...
( Category: Japan October 14,2015 )
azw3 |eng | 2013-11-29 | Author:Neboli, Monica [Neboli, Monica]

( Category: Essays October 11,2015 )
azw3, epub |eng | 2012-06-11 | Author:Durrell, Lawrence [Durrell, Lawrence]

Zero & Asylum in the Snow Two Excursions into Reality (written in Corfu) “Asylum in the Snow.” Published in Seven. No. 3. Winter 1938. “Zero.” Published in Seven. No. 6. ...
( Category: General October 10,2015 )
epub |eng | 2011-06-01 | Author:Raymond Gallun [Gallun, Raymond]

He had to yield to Brinker's wishes. Toil might divert him some, keep him from feeling the tension of time and strangeness so much. "Okay, Brinker," he said. "You win. ...
( Category: Travelers & Explorers October 9,2015 )
epub |eng | | Author:Jim Corbett

So that winter I went down to Kaladhungi armed with a rifle, and without any anxiety about ammunition. The rifle the good Sergeant-Major had selected for me was dead accurate, ...
( Category: India & South Asia September 8,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | 1944-09-07 | Author:Corbett,Jim.

And now he appears to have made up his mind to leave this reach of the river for the rapids below the pool. In one strong steady run he reaches ...
( Category: Cultural September 8,2015 )
epub |eng | | Author:Corbett, Jim

mother pressed the damp tip of her trunk on to the salt-impregnated dust, and then conveyed it to Iter mouth. The calf, taking advantage of its mother's preoccupation, inserted its ...
( Category: Wildlife September 8,2015 )
epub |eng | 2010-09-04 | Author:Jennifer Jordan

ON JUNE 20, only two weeks into the climb, Dudley, Fritz, and George, whom Fritz still hoped would shape up and become a strong member of the team, made a ...
( Category: Mountain Climbing September 5,2015 )
epub |eng | 2010-09-22 | Author:Freddie Wilkinson

8 A CRITICAL SITUATION The second week in July, the winds came. A high-pressure system settled over western China to the north of the mountain; warm air from the seasonal ...
( Category: Travelers & Explorers September 2,2015 )
mobi |eng | 2013-05-07 | Author:Peter Hessler

40 KM/HR IS THE SAFEST 80 KM/HR IS DANGEROUS 100 KM/HR IS BOUND FOR THE HOSPITAL The road climbed steeply to the border of Qinghai Province. We passed slow-moving Liberation ...
( Category: Travelers & Explorers August 30,2015 )
epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 2002-09-01 | Author:Donald Richie [Richie, Donald]

••••• MORNING IN TOMO—a light rain, almost a mist, gradually resolves itself into vertical lines of heavy rain. Then the rain is caught by the sea wind, scattered, and once ...
( Category: Japanese August 28,2015 )
epub |eng | 2010-04-13 | Author:David Lipsky [Lipsky, David]

Oh—I adored that show. And I remember being really upset during the Vietnam War, because they would keep intruding on that show, to give updates on the war. And the ...
( Category: Arts & Literature August 27,2015 )
epub |eng | 2015-07-12 | Author:Gertrude Bell

February 24, 1914 We are within sight of Hayyil and I might have ridden in today but I thought it better to announce my auspicious coming! So I sent in ...
( Category: Authors August 27,2015 )