Travelers & Explorers
epub, mobi |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Beryl Markham [Markham, Beryl]

XIII Na Kupa Hati M’zuri THE RED-JAWED RUSSIAN SQUINTS over his glass of vodka, swallows, and snorts from the bottom of his belly. ‘Leopard?’ he says. ‘Pah! I have fought ...
( Category: Biographical March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-01-30 | Author:Thor Heyerdahl [Heyerdahl, Thor]

Hold on, Haugland! If the intervals between the waves were too short, water often came on board from astern, and the helmsman had a hard job to prevent himself from ...
( Category: Movements & Periods March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng, eng | 2012-09-03 | Author:Joyce Morgan

After his side trip to Bezeklik, Stein pushed west and soon marked his second Christmas of the expedition. A few days into 1908, boxes of chocolate reached him from the ...
( Category: Chinese March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-06-30 | Author:Claire Fontaine [Fontaine, Claire]

CHAPTER NINE Avignon Pentimento Def: A visible trace of earlier painting beneath a layer, or layers, of paint on a canvas. From Italian, literally “repentant.” If happiness were a landscape, ...
( Category: Parenting Girls March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2011-03-29 | Author:E.B. White [White, E.B.]

The Consolidated Edison Company says there are eight million people in the five boroughs of New York, and the company is in a position to know. Of these eight million, ...
( Category: Essays March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2003-08-02 | Author:Ernesto Che Guevara [Guevara, Ernesto Che]

*Spanish-speaking Latin Americans, often used to refer to Indians who adopt Spanish ways. *The Inca Garcilaso, son of an Inca princess and a conquistador, was one of the chroniclers of ...
( Category: Communism & Socialism March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2005-01-02 | Author:James R. Hansen [Hansen, James R.]

On the one hand to dwell in the very center of technological reality…yet to inhabit—if only in one’s dreams—that other world where death, metaphysics and the unanswerable questions of eternity ...
( Category: Astronautics & Space Flight March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2010-01-31 | Author:Elizabeth Bard [BARD, ELIZABETH]

WE ARRIVED BY the early ferry, docked in the small port, watched by vacationers sipping their coffee and reading the paper. From the port you could see the seventeenth-century fortress ...
( Category: French March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-04-24 | Author:SAIMA WAHAB [WAHAB, SAIMA]

NINETEEN Outside Jalalabad a handful of big refugee camps languished on the desert plain that extends into Pakistan. Without plumbing, heat, or electricity, they were bursting with tens of thousands ...
( Category: Women in Islam March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2013-06-17 | Author:Brendan I. Koerner [Koerner, Brendan I.]

FLIGHT 364 WAS now so close to Maison Blanche Airport that Holder could make out the beaches along the Mediterranean, still full of bathers soaking up the day’s last rays ...
( Category: Crime & Criminals March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:Les Stroud

* * * The Robertsons ELEMENTS OF SURVIVAL Knowledge 10% Luck 45% Kit 20% Will to Live 25% Almost an even split across the board. Dougal and his family had ...
( Category: Camping March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:Richard Henry Dana

CHAPTER XXVII The Sunday Wash-up—On Shore—A Set-to—A Grandee—“Sail Ho!”—A Fandango The only other vessel in port was the Russian government bark, from Asitka, mounting eight guns, (four of which we ...
( Category: Narratives March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2011-05-04 | Author:David Herlihy [Herlihy, David]

II. The Search 10. EAST LIVERPOOL, OHIO October 12, 1894 "FRANK LENZ IS LOST," blared the Evening News Review, stunning the residents of East Liverpool, Ohio, a prosperous pottery center ...
( Category: Cycling March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2013-03-04 | Author:Lee Sandlin [Sandlin, Lee]

11 Premonitory Symptoms In the early 1880s, curious flags began appearing in prominent places all over America. They were seen flying above post offices and railroad depots and weather stations—enormous ...
( Category: Weather March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2010-04-06 | Author:Max Hardberger [Hardberger, Max]

The next morning I went to see Willem Bik at Belgisch Scheepssloperij. He’d delivered the Deletion Certificate to the ship a week earlier, and I hadn’t seen him since. As ...
( Category: Travelers & Explorers March 26,2014 )